Biblioteca / 1960-1969
A. J. Ryder. The German Revolution of 1918. A Study of German Socialism in War and Revolt.
Cambridge University Press, 1967.
340 páginas.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1 – German socialism before 1914
Origins and background of German Social Democracy
Marxism in the liberal era: the Erfurt Programme
Engels and the abandonment of revolutionary tactics
Bernstein and Revisionism
Rosa Luxemburg and the new challenge from the left
2 – The outbreak of the first world war
Socialist attitudes to war
August 1914
The civic truce
3 – The growth of opposition socialism
War aims and annexations
Anti-war socialism and Zimmerwald
Deviation on the right: nationalist socialism
4 – German socialism in schism
Background: Germany in 1916
The breach widens
The last all-socialist conference
Defiance on the extreme left: Spartacus
5 – The socialist rivals in 1917
1917: the year of missed opportunities
The Reichstag peace resolution
The Independent Social Democratic party
The first six months of the U.S.P.D.
Reformist socialism after the split
6 – German socialism in the last year of the war
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The strike of January 1918
The ‘revolution from above’
The eve of the November Revolution
7 – The November Revolution
The naval mutiny
The revolution in the states and cities
9 November in Berlin
The socialists in office
The socialist government and the generals
8 – The experiment in revolutionary government
The People’s Commissars at work
The congress of workers’ and soldiers’ councils: climax of the revolution
The problem of armed force in the German Revolution
9 – The ‘Second Revolution’
The sailors’ revolt
The foundation conference of the K.P.D.
The January Rising
Further revolt and suppression
10 – The transformation of Independent Socialism
The U.S.P.D. turns to proletarian dictatorship
Versailles and Weimar: the socialist balance sheet in the summer and autumn of 1919
The U.S.P.D. leaves the Second International
11 – Epilogue: the climax and double crisis of 1920
The socialists and the Kapp Putsch
The U.S.P.D. and the Third International
The split in the U.S.P.D.: the Halle conference
12 – Retrospect and conclusions
Reformist socialism from broken Burgfrieden to ineffective power
The Independent socialists: trials of a semi-revolutionary party
The German Revolution as a product of Bismarckian policy and Marxist theory
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