Beyond France's own national historiography, the French Revolution was a fundamental point of reference for the nineteenth-century socialist movement. While Karl Marx never wrote his planned history of the Revolution, beginning in the 1880s the German and Austrian social-democrats did embark on such a project. This was an important moment for both Marxism and the historiography of the French Revolution. Yet it has not previously been the object of any overall study. The French Revolution and Social Democracy studies both the social-democratic readings of the foundational revolutionary event and the place of this history in militant culture, as seen in sources from party educationals to leaflets and workers' calendars.
First published in 2012 as La Révolution française et la social-démocratie. Transmissions et usages politiques de l'histoire en Allemagne et Autriche, 1889-1934 by Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2012.
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The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.
Table of Contents
Preface to the English Edition Abbreviations
Introduction
Preamble: Social Democracy and the French Revolution before 1889
Part 1 The Development, Crisis and Renewal of the Reference to the French Revolution and Its History (1889-1905)
1 1889: the Social-Democrats' Centenary
2 The &'Long Centenary', 1890-5
3 Revising Orthodoxy, Re-exploring History
4 The Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Analogies with 1789
Part 2 The Entrenchment of a Reference (1906-17)
The New Conditions of Social-Democratic Production
5 New Works on the French Revolution
6 The Social-Democratic Educational Apparatus from 1906 to 1914
7 A Powerful Machine
8 The Reference to 1789: Powerful yet Ambiguous
Part 3 Reinterpretations and New Approaches, 1917-34
The Social Democracies' New Course
9 The Power of Analogies, in the Face of New Revolutions: 1917-23
10 Continuities and New Approaches in the Mid-1920s
11 New Readings of the French Revolution
12 Analogies and Controversies: the French Revolution, 1927-34
Conclusion
References Index
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The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.
More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781642590531
Publisert
2019-12-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Haymarket Books
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
358
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Om bidragsyterne
Jean-Numa Ducange, Ph.D. (2009), Rouen-Normandie University (France), is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at that University, co-director of Actuel Marx (PUF) and has published several articles and books on the History of the Left in France, Germany and Austria, including Jules Guesde. L'anti-Jaurès? (Armand Colin, 2017) and as co-editor Marx, une passion française (La Découverte, 2018).