William Pelz. The Spartakusbund and the German Working Class Movement, 1914-1919.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I – THE MAKING of the GERMAN WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT

II – THE TWO SOULS of GERMAN SOCIALISM: REFORMIST versus REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS

III – THE KAISER’S WAR and the POPULAR RESPONSE

IV – THE KAISER GOES, the SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REMAIN: THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT in GERMANY, NOVEMBER—DECEMBER, 1918

V – THE BIRTH of GERMAN COMMUNISM: LUXEMBURG, LIEBKNECHT and the founding of the KPD

VI – PROVOCATION and ASSASSINATION—BERLIN’S JANUARY DAYS: THE MURDER of LUXEMBURG and LIEBKNECHT

VII – THE WAR for WORKERS’ MINDS: IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY and the GERMAN REVOLUTIONARY LEFT

VIII – THE SOCIAL BASE of the SPARTAKUSBUND: RABBLE or WORKERS?

IX – HAMMER OR ANVIL BE: THE LEGACY of the SPARTAKUSBUND

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I – BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

II – PRIMARY SOURCES

III – SECONDARY SOURCES