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PublicAffairs,U.S. The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThe Empire Must Die portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The window between two equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the communists - was open only briefly, in the last couple of years of the 19th century until the end of WWI, by which time the revolution was in full fury. From the last years of Tolstoy until the death of the Tsar and his family, however, Russia experimented with liberalism and cultural openness. In Europe, the Ballet Russe was the height of chic. Novelists and playwrights blossomed, political ideas were swapped in coffee houses and St Petersburg felt briefly like Vienna or Paris. The state, however couldn't tolerate such experimentation against the backdrop of a catastrophic war and a failing economy. The autocrats moved in and the liberals were overwhelmed. This story seems to have strangely prescient echoes of the present.
£30.00
University of South Carolina Press Patriots and Indians: Shaping Identity in
Book SynopsisPatriots and Indians examines relationships between elite South Carolinians and Native Americans through the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians interacted with Indians in business and diplomatic affairs, as enemies and allies during times of war and less frequently in matters of scientific, religious, or sexual interest. Jeff W. Dennis elaborates on these connections and their seminal effects on the American Revolution and the establishment of the state of South Carolina.Dennis illuminates how southern Indians and South Carolinians contributed to and gained from the intercultural relationship, which subsequently influenced the careers, politics, and perspectives of leading South Carolina patriots and informed Indian policy during the Revolution and early republic. In eighteenth-century South Carolina, what it meant to be a person of European American, Native American, or African American heritage changed dramatically. People lived in transition; they were required to find solutions to an expanding array of sociocultural, economic, and political challenges. Ultimately their creative adaptations transformed how they viewed themselves and others.While Native Americans were not the only “others” of the Revolutionary world, they were nonwhite, nonslave, and non-Christian allies of Britain who inhabited many millions of acres of highly arable land. For radical spokesmen such as William Henry Drayton, along with many white people on the frontier, Indians were viewed as a defining enemy during the American Revolution. Dennis contends that the stronger the attachment these men felt to the Whig cause and their aversion to the British, the harsher their attitudes toward Indians. In contrast the closer they were to Indians, socially and psychologically, the more lenient they appeared toward Native Americans. This difference of opinion carried over into national policies toward Native Americans. Following independence, some South Carolina patriots such as Andrew Pickens imagined an American identity broad and honorable enough to include Indians.
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Skyhorse Publishing Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to
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£13.29
Lehigh University Press Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America:
Book SynopsisLaw and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 offers the first deep analysis of the most important libel trial in post-revolutionary America and an approach to understanding a much-studied revolutionary figure, Benjamin Rush, in a new light as a legal subject. This libel trial faced off the new nation’s most prestigious physician-patriot, Benjamin Rush, against its most popular journalist, William Cobbett, the editor of Porcupine’s Gazette. Studied by means of a rare and substantial surviving transcript, the trial features six litigating counsel whose narrative of events and roles provides a unique view of how the revolutionary generation saw itself and the legacy it wished to leave to its progeny. The trial is structured by assaults against medical bleeding and its premier practitioner in yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s in Philadelphia, on the one hand, and castigates the licentiousness of the press in the nation’s then-capital city, on the other. As it does so, it exemplifies the much-derided litigiousness of the new nation and the threat of sedition that characterized the development of political parties and the partisan press in late eighteenth-century America.Trade ReviewIn Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America, Linda Myrsiades links Americanism with professionalism and converts medical and legal history into a narrative of the nation. Marshalling a fascinating array of primary sources that includes trial records, press coverage, and personal correspondence, Myrsiades meticulously dissects the 1799 libel trial of Rush v Cobbett. By showing how its legal anatomy embodied the most pressing political and ethical questions of the emerging nation, Myrsiades makes a significant contribution to the study of medicine, law, and the humanities that will appeal to readers across a broad range of disciplines. -- Cathrine O. Frank, University of New EnglandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Prolegomena The Trial Transcript Constructing the Plaintiff The Republican Narrative Yellow Fever and the Jeremiad Narrative The Image of Fever Chapter 1: Benjamin Rush and the Culture of Medicine Quacks and Factions The Culture of Medicine Rush’s Treatments Doctors’ Wars Chapter 2: Malpractice Law and Benjamin Rush Malpractice Law The Patient’s Duty Medical Authority Physicians and the Law Whitworth and Young Samuel Thomson Rush and Malpractice Rush’s Decision to Prosecute Chapter 3: William Cobbett and the Scurrilous Press Cobbett and the Press Porcupine and Style Trial by Press Satire Porcupine’s Prints Press Feuds Cobbett’s Attacks on Rush Sangrado the Bleeder The Vintner’s Tales Chapter 4: Libel Law and William Cobbett Libel Cases Eleazer Oswald Sedition Cases Cobbett and the Law Changes in Legal Practice The Venue: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Fleeing the Trial Chapter 5: Sangrado v. the Cloven Foot, the Trial The Political Story The Story of Character The Secular Jeremiad The Contribution of Sermons Cobbett’s Self-Defense Chapter 6: The Trial Concluded The Judge and the Jury Cobbett’s Counsel Trial Strategy Afterword Cobbett’s Flight to England The Death of George Washington Peter Porcupine v. Paul Polecat Bibliography
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Literature, Intertextuality, and the American
Book SynopsisDealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776–82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819–20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground in assessing the strategies of subversion and intertextuality used during the American Revolution. Blakemore also crystallizes the historical contexts that link these works together – contexts that have been missed or overlooked by critics and scholars. The five works additionally illuminate issues of history (The Norman Conquest, the English Civil War, and the French Revolution) and gender as they impinge on American-revolutionary discourse. The result is five new readings of significant revolutionary-era works that suggest fruitful entries into other literatures of the Revolution. Blakemore demonstrates the nexus between literature and history in the revolutionary era and how it created an intertextual dialogue in the formation of the first postcolonial critiques of the British Empire.Trade ReviewBlakemore asserts that the American Revolution was waged intertextually across and through "voluminous tissues of allusions" to shared modes of Anglo-American history and cultural representation—a common frame now largely neglected. He resuscitates the historical contexts and the common representational strategies from within which US writers wrested their political and aesthetic independence, focusing on five key works from the Revolutionary and early national eras: Paine's Common Sense, Trumbull's M'Fingal, Freneau's 'The British Prison-Ship,' Crévecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, and Irving's Rip Van Winkle. Although Blakemore identifies these works as similar in their self-conscious and subversive responsiveness to context, he focuses his efforts on individual chapters dedicated to the distinct modes, techniques, and targets through which each author articulated his vision of American independence. Scholars of American literary history are likely familiar with the works by Irving, Crévecoeur, and Paine, but Blakemore's skillful new readings of them, along with his inclusion of Trumbull's and Freneau's often-overlooked poems, richly reward the reader. In the current climate of transatlantic and comparative cultural studies, Blakemore's study offers a model of insightful scholarship and attention to contextual particularity. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *
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Bucknell University Press Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel
Book SynopsisAfro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the Cuban revolution brought sweeping changes that vastly improved the material condition of many Afro-Cubans, at the time overrepresented among Cuba’s poor and marginalized, the government’s official position was that racial inequities had been resolved as early as 1962. Although a more open dialogue on race was cut short, the work of several novelists and film directors from the late 1960s and 70s expresses the need to explore what was gained and lost by Afro-Cubans in the early years of the revolution, among them Manuel Granados, Miguel Barnet, Nivaria Tejera, Sara Gómez, César Leante, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Sergio Giral, and Manuel Cofiño. Their works participate in the process of redefining Cuban national identity that took place after the revolution and, more specifically, they explore the place of Afro-Cuban identity within a broader notion of revolutionary “Cubanness.” This occurs through an emphasis on Afro-Cuban cultural practices that have constituted forms of resistance to colonial and neo-colonial oppression. This book examines the identity conflicts portrayed in these works and takes into account the artists’ negotiation of their own status within the revolutionary context by looking at the narrative strategies used to address racial issues within the constraints placed on cultural production in Cuba after 1962. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Contradictory Approaches to Race, from Independence to Revolution Part One: Representing Difference in Colonial and Republican Settings Chapter 2 Slave Rebellion and Cultural resistance Chapter 3 Performing the Mulata Rumbera Chapter 4 Fragmented Cubanness by Way of Détour Part Two: Post-Revolutionary Identities in Conflict Chapter 5 Black Masculinity in Crisis Chapter 6 Race, Place, and Marginality Conclusion Epilogue: The 1980s and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press The French Revolution Debate and the British
Book SynopsisThis study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, were multiple and far reaching. Morgan Rooney elucidates these subtleties clearly and convincingly. While political writers of the 1790s—Burke, Price, Mackintosh, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and others—debate the historical meaning of the Glorious Revolution as a prelude to broader ideological arguments about the significance of the past for the present and future, novelists engage with this discourse by representing moments of the past or otherwise vying to enlist the authority of history to further a reformist or loyalist agenda. Anti-Jacobin novelists such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, and Jane West draw on Burkean historical discourse to characterize the reform movement as ignorant of the complex operations of historical accretion. For their part, reform-minded novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, and Maria Edgeworth travesty Burke’s tropes and arguments so as to undermine and then redefine the category of history. As the Revolution crisis recedes, new novel forms such as Edgeworth’s regional novel, Lady Morgan’s national tale, and Jane Porter’s early historical fiction emerge, but historical representation—largely the legacy of the 1790s’ novel—remains an increasingly pronounced feature of the genre. Whereas the representation of history in the novel, Rooney argues, is initially used strategically by novelists involved in the Revolution debate, it is appropriated in the early nineteenth century by authors such as Edgeworth, Morgan, and Porter for other, often related ideological purposes before ultimately developing into a stable, nonpartisan, aestheticized feature of the form as practiced by Walter Scott. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 demonstrates that the transformation of the novel at this fascinating juncture of British political and literary history contributes to the emergence of the historical novel as it was first realized in Scott’s Waverley (1814).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The French Revolution Debate, the Discourses of History, and the British Novel, 1790–1814 Part I: Reading History in a Revolutionary Age, 1789–1794 1. 1688 in the 1790s: Strategies for Interpreting the Glorious Revolution 2. The Presence of the Past: The Discourses of History Part II: Novel and History, 1793–1814 3. Order under Siege: The Discourses of History in the Anti-Jacobin Novel 4. The Crumbling (E)state: The Problem of History in the Novel of Reform 5. Representing History in a Post-Revolutionary Age: Varieties of Early Historical Fiction Bibliography Index About the Author
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Bucknell University Press The French Revolution Debate and the British
Book SynopsisThis study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, were multiple and far reaching. Morgan Rooney elucidates these subtleties clearly and convincingly. While political writers of the 1790s—Burke, Price, Mackintosh, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and others—debate the historical meaning of the Glorious Revolution as a prelude to broader ideological arguments about the significance of the past for the present and future, novelists engage with this discourse by representing moments of the past or otherwise vying to enlist the authority of history to further a reformist or loyalist agenda. Anti-Jacobin novelists such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, and Jane West draw on Burkean historical discourse to characterize the reform movement as ignorant of the complex operations of historical accretion. For their part, reform-minded novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, and Maria Edgeworth travesty Burke’s tropes and arguments so as to undermine and then redefine the category of history. As the Revolution crisis recedes, new novel forms such as Edgeworth’s regional novel, Lady Morgan’s national tale, and Jane Porter’s early historical fiction emerge, but historical representation—largely the legacy of the 1790s’ novel—remains an increasingly pronounced feature of the genre. Whereas the representation of history in the novel, Rooney argues, is initially used strategically by novelists involved in the Revolution debate, it is appropriated in the early nineteenth century by authors such as Edgeworth, Morgan, and Porter for other, often related ideological purposes before ultimately developing into a stable, nonpartisan, aestheticized feature of the form as practiced by Walter Scott. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 demonstrates that the transformation of the novel at this fascinating juncture of British political and literary history contributes to the emergence of the historical novel as it was first realized in Scott’s Waverley (1814).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The French Revolution Debate, the Discourses of History, and the British Novel, 1790–1814 Part I: Reading History in a Revolutionary Age, 1789–1794 1. 1688 in the 1790s: Strategies for Interpreting the Glorious Revolution 2. The Presence of the Past: The Discourses of History Part II: Novel and History, 1793–1814 3. Order under Siege: The Discourses of History in the Anti-Jacobin Novel 4. The Crumbling (E)state: The Problem of History in the Novel of Reform 5. Representing History in a Post-Revolutionary Age: Varieties of Early Historical Fiction Bibliography Index About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis book connects the story of a group of migrant workers to the question of why Paris became the nineteenth century's 'capital of revolution,' and why this stage of the city ended. The stonemasons were well known for their skills, and their seasonal migration from central France, but especially for their role in rebellions. They were set apart by a persistent reputation tying them to the city's tumultuous history and to the revolutionary legacy of a physical location: the Place de Grève. Parisians and police saw the masons as part of the 'dangerous classes,' while to bosses they were 'docile.' This work draws upon research in archives and libraries, including the records of arrests, casualties, and compensation in rebellions, workers' memoirs, police reports, and studies of marchandage—a hated form of subcontracting whose history paralleled that of the masons.Trade ReviewThis book will inform students of a major industry and introduce them to Nadaud, selections from whose memoirs are included in Mark Traugott's indispensable The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era (1993). * American Historical Review *
£112.64
Michigan State University Press Enigmas of Sacrifice: A Critique of Joseph M.
Book SynopsisEnigmas of Sacrifice is the first critical study of the religious poet and militarist Joseph M. Plunkett, who was executed with the other leaders of the Dublin insurrection of 1916. Through Plunkett the author gains access to areas of nationalist thought that were more often assumed or repressed than publicly formulated.In this eye-opening book, W.J. Mc Cormack explores and analyzes Plunkett’s brief life, work, and influence, beginning with his wealthy but dysfunctional family, irregular Jesuit education, and self-canceling sexuality. Mc Cormack continues through Plunkett’s active phase when amateur theatricals and a magazine editorship brought him into the emergent neonationalist discourse of early twentieth-century Ireland. Finally, the author arrives at Holy Week 1916, when Plunkett masterminded the forgery of official documentation in order to provoke and justify the insurrection he planned.Mc Cormack analyzes Plunkett’s significant texts and provides context through critical perspectives on his milieu. Enigmas of Sacrifice is unique in its effort to understand a major figure of Irish nationalism in terms that reach beyond political identity.
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Michigan State University Press Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and
Book SynopsisOn August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people’s needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics. James E. Genova’s Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 recounts in detail the revolutionary government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of neoliberal capitalism. It also uncovers one of the revolution’s most enduring and significant aspects: its promotion of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social transformation, and articulating a new self-generated image of Africa and Africans. Foregrounding film and drawing evocative connections between Sankara’s political philosophy and Frantz Fanon, Making New People provides a deeply nuanced explanation for the revolution’s lasting influence throughout Africa and the world.
£28.45
Casemate Publishers Special Operations in the American Revolution
Book Synopsis"What is unique about this book is the perspective. To a modern-day reader, specialops conjure images of highly trained and exotically equipped soldiers leaping out ofhelicopters and Zodiac boats to wipe out terrorists. . . . In an era when warfare was supposed to be gentlemanly and follow certain rules, did Washington and his contemporaries embrace special operations? The answer would seem to be, ‘Yes.' Even if they didn't use the term 'special ops,' they were willing to employ elite reconnaissance units, spies and partisan bands. Washington didn't have SEAL Team 6. But he made good use of what he had.” - The National InterestWhen the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching His Majesty's highly trained, experienced British and German legions in confrontational battle. In this book, renowned author, and former U.S. Army Colonel, Robert Tonsetic describes and analyzes numerous examples of special operations conducted during the Revolution.Trade ReviewThe individual chapters offer very useful introductions to the various raids and operations covered, many of which are minor actions that could make ideal scenarios for small battles or large skirmish wargame. […] Recommended for wargamers already interested in the American Revolution seeking further scenarios for their miniature forces.Many of the operations Tonsetic touches upon are often overlooked in the literature of the war. * Misc US Reviewer *Table of ContentsPrologue 1 The Capture Of Fort Ticonderoga 2 The New Providence Raid 3 Knowlton’s Rangers 4 Whitcomb’s Rangers 5 John Paul Jones’ Raids On Britain’s Coast 6 Partisan Warfare In The Northern Theater 7 The Rise Of Partisan Warfare In The Southern Theater 8 The Whaleboat Wars 9 George Rogers Clark’s March To Vincennes Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Progressive Press Fall of the Arab Spring: From Revolution to
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Academic Studies Press Landmarks Revisited: The Vekhi Symposium One
Book SynopsisThe symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. It was published in 1909, under the editorship of Mikhail Gershenzon, as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was deemed by all the Landmarks contributors to exemplify and illuminate fatal philosophical, political, and psychological flaws in the revolutionary intelligentsia that had sought it. Its fame persists until today not least because the volume has been deemed by many in Russia and the West to have proven prophetic in its prediction (and urgent warning) that the realisation of the intelligentsia’s platform would bring ruin upon Russia. More than any other text, its republication in 1991 symbolically heralded the end of the ideological hegemony of Marxist-Leninism in the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewâVekhi (1909) was a collection of essays by major Russian thinkers who set out to examine and challenge the boundaries between social thought, epistemology, religion, and law. In its wide-ranging and stimulating papers, the present volume offers a rich and helpful contextualization of this important work and ponders its impact on later decades in political and moral philosophy.â âGalin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary, University of London
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Academic Studies Press Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A
Book SynopsisThis book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city.Trade Review"The author’s enthusiasm for her topic is clear…Readers will find information here on Jews from Kiev in nearly every kind of endeavor, from business to the arts, and even the circus...Without any minimization of the prevalent anti-Semitism or violence, Khiterer describes well the achievements of the Jewish community...Khiterer’s work is at times as engaging as it is exhaustive, and it is hoped she will continue to remain such an amiable guide to a difficult past." -- Sean Martin, Western Reserve Historical Society, The Russian Review“Kiev, the crown jewel of Russian Christendom, was the unexpected home of a vibrant, deep-rooted, but vulnerable Jewish community. While other scholars hone in on pogroms and anti-Semitism, Professor Khiterer expands the horizon. She tells us about Jewish social life, economics, politics, education, culture and religion. This powerful monograph gives the reader the Jewish world of Kiev with panoramic thoroughness. It will be the authoritative text for decades.” -- Brian Horowitz, Professor of Russian and Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University“Kiev lay in the heart of the Jewish Pale of Settlement but until the revolution of February 1917 only restricted numbers of privileged Jews had the legal right to settle there. Nevertheless, the town also became a magnet for the impoverished Jewish masses seeking to escape the poverty of shtetl life. This compelling and well-researched monograph highlights the dual character of the town for its Jewish inhabitants—on the one hand the home of a well-established and culturally productive Jewish community, on the other the scene of constant persecution and expulsion. It is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of Jewish life in the Tsarist Empire and in the modern world.” -- Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University“Such cities as Warsaw, Vilna, St. Petersburg, and Odessa usually eclipse Kiev in the Russian Jewish historical narrative. This is wrong and not fair given the significance of Kiev as a trendsetting center in Jewish cultural and political life. Victoria Khiterer’s descriptive and analytical panorama of pre-1917 Jewish Kiev helps place it into the league it belongs to.” -- Gennady Estraikh, New York University, author of In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism“An indefatigable researcher, Victoria Khiterer has written the first comprehensive history of Jews in Kiev, one of the most important cities in the Russian Empire and its successor states. Her deep knowledge of the secondary literature in several languages and original research in the archives over many years have made for a riveting and important book on the long, complex history of Jews in the Ukrainian capital. Khiterer covers culture, economics, education, the press, theater, music, religious life and its politics, and the always fraught relationship between Jews and the tsarist government. This book, a major work, will be required reading for scholars, students and anyone interested in Jewish history.” -- Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan"In this model of professional and careful research and analysis, Khiterer weaves the threads of a fascinating historical tapestry of one of czarist Russia's largest communities in the traditional seat of Russian Orthodox Christianity." -- R. M. Shapiro (Brooklyn College), CHOICE (January 2017 Vol. 54 No. 5)“Victoria Khiterer’s latest work uses vivid descriptions and detailed illustrations and mines a rich base of primary sources to explore the life of imperial Kyiv as a Jewish city. . . .the author’s use of maps, illustrations, and photographs of imperial Kyiv assists the reader in visualizing the various events that she describes in detail. The maps of Kyiv also help one comprehend the impact of the increasing segregation of Jews in the city. Each of the book’s chapters includes its own introduction and conclusion. Thus, each chapter can be assigned separately for undergraduate reading to cover different subjects. Overall, Khiterer’s work is a straightforward and engaging read; it can appeal both to experts in the fields of Jewish and Ukrainian studies and to undergraduate students." -- Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Lee College, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume IV, No. 2 (2017)“Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel is likely to remain an essential text for students of this city for generations… Khiterer’s writing style is fluid and elegant, resulting in a very readable work, well illustrated with photographs of the many Kiev personalities discussed in the book, helpful maps, and a serviceable index. She has rendered the scholarly world a great service with this detailed and important work.” -- Henry Abramson, Jahrbücher für Geschichte OsteuropasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Dates, Spelling, and Names List of Tables List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction Chapter One. The History of Jews in Kiev from the Tenth Century to 1660 Chapter Two. The Jews of Kiev in the Embrace of the Russian Empire (1794–1859) Chapter Three. The Jewish Right of Residence in Kiev in 1859–1917 Chapter Four. The Kiev Jewish Community and its Leaders Chapter Five. The Wealth and Poverty of Jews in Kiev Chapter Six. Jewish Pogroms and the Beilis Affair Chapter Seven. How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev Chapter Eight. Jewish Culture in Kiev Chapter Nine. Between Tradition and Modernity: Jewish Religious Life in Kiev Conclusion Appendix. Dmitrii Bogrov and the Assassination of Stolypin Bibliography
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Academic Studies Press Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A
Book SynopsisThis book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city.Trade Review"The author’s enthusiasm for her topic is clear…Readers will find information here on Jews from Kiev in nearly every kind of endeavor, from business to the arts, and even the circus...Without any minimization of the prevalent anti-Semitism or violence, Khiterer describes well the achievements of the Jewish community...Khiterer’s work is at times as engaging as it is exhaustive, and it is hoped she will continue to remain such an amiable guide to a difficult past." -- Sean Martin, Western Reserve Historical Society, The Russian Review“Kiev, the crown jewel of Russian Christendom, was the unexpected home of a vibrant, deep-rooted, but vulnerable Jewish community. While other scholars hone in on pogroms and anti-Semitism, Professor Khiterer expands the horizon. She tells us about Jewish social life, economics, politics, education, culture and religion. This powerful monograph gives the reader the Jewish world of Kiev with panoramic thoroughness. It will be the authoritative text for decades.” -- Brian Horowitz, Professor of Russian and Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University“Kiev lay in the heart of the Jewish Pale of Settlement but until the revolution of February 1917 only restricted numbers of privileged Jews had the legal right to settle there. Nevertheless, the town also became a magnet for the impoverished Jewish masses seeking to escape the poverty of shtetl life. This compelling and well-researched monograph highlights the dual character of the town for its Jewish inhabitants—on the one hand the home of a well-established and culturally productive Jewish community, on the other the scene of constant persecution and expulsion. It is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of Jewish life in the Tsarist Empire and in the modern world.” -- Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University“Such cities as Warsaw, Vilna, St. Petersburg, and Odessa usually eclipse Kiev in the Russian Jewish historical narrative. This is wrong and not fair given the significance of Kiev as a trendsetting center in Jewish cultural and political life. Victoria Khiterer’s descriptive and analytical panorama of pre-1917 Jewish Kiev helps place it into the league it belongs to.” -- Gennady Estraikh, New York University, author of In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism“An indefatigable researcher, Victoria Khiterer has written the first comprehensive history of Jews in Kiev, one of the most important cities in the Russian Empire and its successor states. Her deep knowledge of the secondary literature in several languages and original research in the archives over many years have made for a riveting and important book on the long, complex history of Jews in the Ukrainian capital. Khiterer covers culture, economics, education, the press, theater, music, religious life and its politics, and the always fraught relationship between Jews and the tsarist government. This book, a major work, will be required reading for scholars, students and anyone interested in Jewish history.” -- Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan"In this model of professional and careful research and analysis, Khiterer weaves the threads of a fascinating historical tapestry of one of czarist Russia's largest communities in the traditional seat of Russian Orthodox Christianity." -- R. M. Shapiro (Brooklyn College), CHOICE (January 2017 Vol. 54 No. 5)“Victoria Khiterer’s latest work uses vivid descriptions and detailed illustrations and mines a rich base of primary sources to explore the life of imperial Kyiv as a Jewish city. . . .the author’s use of maps, illustrations, and photographs of imperial Kyiv assists the reader in visualizing the various events that she describes in detail. The maps of Kyiv also help one comprehend the impact of the increasing segregation of Jews in the city. Each of the book’s chapters includes its own introduction and conclusion. Thus, each chapter can be assigned separately for undergraduate reading to cover different subjects. Overall, Khiterer’s work is a straightforward and engaging read; it can appeal both to experts in the fields of Jewish and Ukrainian studies and to undergraduate students." -- Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Lee College, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume IV, No. 2 (2017)“Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel is likely to remain an essential text for students of this city for generations… Khiterer’s writing style is fluid and elegant, resulting in a very readable work, well illustrated with photographs of the many Kiev personalities discussed in the book, helpful maps, and a serviceable index. She has rendered the scholarly world a great service with this detailed and important work.” -- Henry Abramson, Jahrbücher für Geschichte OsteuropasTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Dates, Spelling, and Names List of Tables List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction Chapter One. The History of Jews in Kiev from the Tenth Century to 1660 Chapter Two. The Jews of Kiev in the Embrace of the Russian Empire (1794–1859) Chapter Three. The Jewish Right of Residence in Kiev in 1859–1917 Chapter Four. The Kiev Jewish Community and its Leaders Chapter Five. The Wealth and Poverty of Jews in Kiev Chapter Six. Jewish Pogroms and the Beilis Affair Chapter Seven. How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev Chapter Eight. Jewish Culture in Kiev Chapter Nine. Between Tradition and Modernity: Jewish Religious Life in Kiev Conclusion Appendix. Dmitrii Bogrov and the Assassination of Stolypin Bibliography
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Political Thought of African Independence: An
Book SynopsisThe Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European colonies in Africa began their transition to sovereign rule in the 1950s and ’60s. Its wealth of key documents are enhanced by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker's General Introduction, part introductions, headnotes, and annotations, providing needed contextual information and supports for readers.Trade Review"A great accomplishment. Not only does Smulewicz-Zucker's anthology bring together a diverse array of sources (54 in total), it also weaves together what are more or less canonical sources in twentieth-century African political thought with many unexpected, yet equally rich and illuminating, items. Smulewicz-Zucker has chosen material from all of the continent’s major regions, including . . . documents from more than two-dozen different countries, international and regional organizations, and conferences. Moreover, he has organized the material in a way that creates an engaging and powerful narrative articulating the complicated history of African independence. This outstanding collection will surely find its way into undergraduate courses in fields as diverse as African history, international relations, comparative politics, and even political theory." —Jeffrey Ahlman, Smith College, author of Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2017)"These African voices will expose readers to the events and ideas that gave shape to African political thought—from aspirations for power within the Anglican church and control over defining local and national cultures, to asserting national identities and conceptions of regional and continental unity. Taken together, they open a window onto the myriad ideas of, and struggles for, independence in Africa." —Benjamin Talton, Temple University"Smulewicz-Zucker’s Political Thought of African Independence is an excellent collection. I'm not only impressed by the selection of texts but also moved by a number of the pieces included in the book." —Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum"Smulewicz-Zucker's anthology of primary sources pertinent to the political imagination of, and ideologies informing, African independence is . . . a very welcome resource for teachers and researchers everywhere. The collection is vast and quite comprehensive, comprising four parts, each with a short introductory essay. The assemblage of such a diverse range of texts, traversing the length and breadth of the continent, is an effective way to challenge the teleology of the nation-state. The mini-introductions offer teachers numerous avenues for the exploration of the materials in the classroom setting, and for the development of lines of questioning for student writing assignments. By broadening the conversation beyond the political realm to incorporate religious, social, cultural, and (to a far lesser extent) gendered aspirations of autonomy and agency, Smulewicz-Zucker has provided a highly teachable and engaging pedagogical product." —Benjamin N. Lawrence, University of Arizona, in African Studies Review Table of ContentsContents: IntroductionPart One: Early Visions of Independence Introduction 1. Samuel Crowther – Letter to the Secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, 1841 2. James Africanus Horton – Advice to the Rising Generation in West Africa, 1868 3. The Fante Confederation Constitution, 1871 4. Edward Blyden – The Origin and Purpose of Colonization, 1881 5. W.E.B. Du Bois – To the Nations of the World, 1900 6. Mojola Agbebi – The West African Problem, 1911 7. J.E. Casely Hayford – Race Emancipation – Particular Considerations: African Nationality, 1911 8. Marcus Garvey – If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul, 1921 Part Two: Paths to Independence Introduction 9. The Fifth Pan-African Congress – Resolutions, 1945 10. Jomo Kenyatta – Speech at the Kenya African Union, 1952 11. George Padmore – Communism and Black Nationalism, 1956 12. Félix Houphouet-Boigny – French Africa and the French Union, 1957 13. Charles de Gaulle – The Franco-African Community, 1958 14. The All-African People’s Conference – Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, 1958 15. Bibi Titi Mohammed – “Travel for TANU”: Interview, 1958 16. Sekou Touré - The Political Leader Considered as the Representative of a Culture, 1959 17. Gamal Abdel Nasser – The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1959 18. Harold Macmillan – Wind of Change, 1960 19. Henrik Verwoerd – Response to Macmillan 20. Patrice Lumumba – Two Speeches, 1960 21. The United Nations – Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960 22. K.A. Busia – The Challenge of Nationalism, 1962 Part Three: Independence Struggles Introduction 23. Karari Njama – Reflections on the Mau Mau Oath, 1952 24. Albert Luthuli – The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross, 1952 25. The Algerian National Liberation Front – Proclamation of the FLN, 1954 26. The Federation of South African Women – The Women’s Charter, 1954 27. The South African Congress of the People – The Freedom Charter, 1955 28. The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, 1956 29. Ndabaningi Sithole – White Supremacy and African Nationalism, 1959 30. Nelson Mandela – I am Prepared to Die, 1964 31. Ian Smith – Announcement of Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965 32. Harold Wilson – Position of the British Government on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia, 1965 33. Amilcar Cabral – The Weapon of Theory, 1966 34. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo - Freedom for Namibia, 1968 35. Emeka Ojukwu – The Ahiara Declaration, 1969 36. Eduardo Mondlane – The Struggle for Independence in Mozambique, 1969 Part Four: Legitimating Independence Introduction 37. Kwame Nkrumah – I Speak of Freedom, 1961 38. Tom Mboya – Tensions in African Development, 1961 39. Kabaka Mutesa II – Decision to Co-operate with Uganda, 1961 40. Sir Ahmadu Bello – Regional Government, 1962 41. Julius Nyerere – Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism, 1962 42. Organization of African Unity – Founding Charter, 1963 43. Haile Selassie I – A Call to African Leaders, 1963 44. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – Addis Ababa, 1963 45. Nnamdi Azikiwe – Tribalism: A Pragmatic Instrument for National Unity, 1964 46. Jomo Kenyatta – A One Party System, 1964 47. Léopold Sédar Senghor – African Socialist Humanism, 1964 48. Kwame Nkrumah – Consciencism, 1964 49. Kanyama Chiume and Ex-Malawian Ministers – Appeal to the U.N. and O.A.U. 50. J.B. Danquah – Letter from Prison to Kwame Nkrumah, 1964 51. Vera Chirwa – Origins of the Cabinet Crisis, 1964 52. Obafemi Awolowo – Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution, 1966 53. Kenneth Kaunda – African Development and Foreign Aid, 1966 54. The Tanganyika African National Union – The Arusha Declaration: On the Policy of Self-Reliance in Tanzania, 1967
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A
Book Synopsis"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. Instead of rehashing the internal dynamics of the Bolshevik takeover, the authors have carefully juxtaposed the international ambitions of the Bolsheviks with the Revolution’s reception around the world. Daly and Trofimov pair their lucid introductory essay with documents from Soviet officials, intellectuals in South America, W. E. B. Du Bois in the United States, and others, so readers will quickly realize how revolutionary ideas cross oceans and transcend geopolitical boundaries. This volume thus takes a topic once reserved for students of Russian history and places it in a world historical perspective; those interested in global history, European history, and, of course, those fascinated by events in Petrograd and Moscow will find ample sources of inspiration in this text. As the Russian Federation is now exerting its influence on a global scale, the time is ripe to consider the Russian Revolution in such broad terms." —Nigel Raab, Loyola Marymount UniversityTrade Review"Thoughtful, readable, and concise, this little book sets the Russian Revolution in its global context. Though primarily focused on the period from 1917 to the 1930s, it nicely illustrates the many ways in which the effects of the Revolution are still being felt today." —Rex Wade, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Preface Chronology Glossary List of Maps List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Russia in Revolution and Civil War Chapter 2: The Bolsheviks Engage the World Chapter 3: The Russian Revolution and the Power of Communism EpilogueDocumentsSection 1: Russia’s Revolutions: From the Collapse of the Monarchy to the Civil War 1.1. Konstantin Pobedonoststev Blasts Parliamentarism, the Free Press, and Modern Education 1.2. V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916 1.3. Soldiers Write About the War, 1915–16 1.4. Order Number One, March 1, 1917 1.5. An American in Petrograd, Spring 1917 1.6. Polish Independence and the Russian Revolution, March–April, 1917 1.7. Lenin Calls for a Deepening of the Revolution, April 4, 1917 1.8. General Session of the Petrograd Soviet, September 11, 1917 1.9. Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People, January 1918 1.10. Mustafa Chokaev, Reminiscences of 1917–18 1.11. Aleksandra Kollontai, “Soon!” (in 48 Years’ Time), 1919 1.12. Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhenskii, ABC of Communism 1.13. The Fate of Kiev, 1918 1.14. The Russian “Internationale,” 1902-1944 1.15. Appeal of Rebel Leaders to the Peasant Masses, Late July/Early August 1920 Section 2: The Bolsheviks Engage the World 2.1. The Bolsheviks Take Russia Out of World War I, January–March 1918 2.2. Soviet Protest against Allied Intervention, June 27, 1918 2.3. V. I. Lenin, “A Letter to American Workingmen,” August 20, 1918 2.4. Pitfalls of Intervention, 1918–20 2.5. Bolshevik Anticipation of a Revolutionary Wave in 1919 2.6. Report of the Chief of the International Relations Section of the Comintern, March 1, 1921 2.7. Toward World Revolution, July 3, 1921 2.8. The Treaty of Rapallo, April 16, 1922 2.9. J. Stalin, “The Political Tasks of the University of the Toiling Peoples of the East,” 1925 2.10. Bolshevik Influence in China, 1920s 2.11. Fighting over the Torch of the Revolution: Trotsky versus Stalin Section 3: The Russian Revolution and the Power of Communism 3.1. John Reed on the Revolution and Socialism, 1919 3.2. “Russia Did It,” 1919 3.3. Bela Kun, “Discipline and Centralized Leadership,” 1923 3.4. Otto Ruhle, “Moscow and Us,” 1920 3.5. French Writer Romain Rolland Responds to a Call to Join the Revolutionary Cause, February 2, 1922 3.6 Emma Goldman Rejects Bolshevik Policies, 1922-23 3.7. “The Russian Problem,” 1919 3.8. Hitler’s Lessons from the Russian Revolution, 1923-26 3.9. “The Zinoviev Letter” Roils British Politics, 1924 3.10. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s unease about Soviet Russia, 1939. 3.11. “A Bright and a Heartening Phenomenon in a Dark and Dismal World,” 1933-1936 3.12. Josiah Gumede, “The New Jerusalem,” 1927 3.13. W. E. B. Du Bois Discovers Soviet Russia (ca. 1928) 3.14. José Carlos Mariátegui Welcomes World Revolution 3.15. Dr. José Lanauze Rolón’s Radio Address in Puerto Rico Extolls the Russian Revolution, 1936 3.16. Mao Zedong’s Retrospective of the Revolutionary Struggle, 1949 Select Bibliography
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University of Massachusetts Press The Fires of New England: A Story of Protest and
Book SynopsisIn the winter of 1834, twenty men convened in Keene, New Hampshire, and published a fiery address condemning their state’s legal system as an abomination that threatened the legacy of the American Revolution. They attacked New Hampshire’s constitution as an archaic document that undermined democracy and created a system of conniving attorneys and judges. They argued that the time was right for their neighbors to rise up and return the Granite State to the glorious pathway blazed by the nation’s founders.Few people embraced the manifesto and its radical message. Nonetheless, as Eric J. Morser illustrates in this eloquently written and deeply researched book, the address matters because it reveals how commercial, cultural, political, and social changes were remaking the lives of the men who drafted and shared it in the 1830s. Using an imaginative range of sources, Morser artfully reconstructs their moving personal tales and locates them in a grander historical context. By doing so, he demonstrates that even seemingly small stories from antebellum America can help us understand the rich complexities of the era.Trade Review“The Fires of New England is an exceptionally deep and contextually rich case study of American culture and politics in the Early Republic. The power of the book is its illustrating and humanizing the complex effects of transformational historical developments through the lives of individuals.” — John Resch, author of Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic“The story of this reformist crusade is an utterly fresh one, with lots of appeal for a twenty- first- century audience. it’s fascinating to realize that the cultural frustration with u.S. legal culture might go back this far in time.” — Aaron Sachs, author of Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
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Stonewell Press Common Sense
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Easton Studio Press May Day at Yale,1970: Recollections: The Trial of
Book SynopsisThis book comes from first hand experiences, both in word and in pictures. It offers a partial record of a community and an institution coming together to accommodate an event while deflecting its potential violence. The history of the New Haven Green bridges over four centuries. It has served as a place for worship, for grazing cattle, staging revolutions, witness to hangings, and various campaigns. On the day before and on May Day of 1970, Yale University and New Haven prepared to host an agitated congregation of young civil rights activists with a diverse list of causes, but focused mainly on freeing Bobby Seale, the Black Panther leader. This book gives a glimpse of that diversity; diverse in cause, attitude, and dress. Marked changes in mood evolved over the approximate 32 hours. Yale and New Haven could be proud of avoiding real violence and blood shed. Like an archeological record, it exhibits not only the New Haven Green on that one day, but marks a broader shift in direction for a county at large. For those who were there, it seems painfully near. For later generations, it is likely a remote abstraction.
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Semiotext (E) How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Una Paz Aplazada, Pero Urgente Y Necesaria:
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Grey House Publishing Inc Defining Documents in World History: Revolutions
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Knox Press The Enemy Harassed: Washington's New Jersey
Book SynopsisAs few books regarding American history have achieved, Jim Stempel’s The Enemy Harassed brings a previously neglected period of the American Revolution to life.In late December 1776, the American War of Independence appeared to be on its last legs. General George Washington’s continental forces had been reduced to a shadow of their former strength, the British Army had chased them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, and enlistments for many of the rank and file would be up by month’s end. Desperate times call for desperate measures, however, and George Washington responded to this crisis with astonishing audacity. On Christmas night 1776, he recrossed the Delaware as a nor’easter churned up the coast, burying his small detachment under howling sheets of snow and ice. Undaunted, they attacked a Hessian brigade at Trenton, New Jersey, taking the German auxiliaries by complete surprise. Then, only three days later, Washington struck again, crossing the Delaware, slipping away from the British at Trenton, and attacking the Redcoats at Princeton—to their utter astonishment. The British, now back on their heels, retreated toward New Brunswick as Washington’s reinvigorated force followed them north into Jersey. Over the next eight months, Washington’s continentals and the state militias of New Jersey would go head-to-head with the British in a multitude of small-scale actions and large-scale battles, eventually forcing the British to flea New Jersey by sea. In this captivating narrative of the American War of Independence, author Jim Stempel brings to life one of the most violent, courageous, yet virtually forgotten periods of the Revolutionary War. Sure to enthrall professional historians and book lovers of all stripes, The Enemy Harassed is scholarly history presented in an accessible style anyone can enjoy.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity. At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Republic. Local head of the Independent Socialists, Eisner had been jailed for treason after organizing a munitions workers' strike to force an armistice. For a hundred days, as Germany spiraled into civil war, Eisner fought as head of state to preserve calm while implementing a peaceful transition to democracy and reforging international relations. He rejected another central German government dominated by Prussia in favor of a confederation of autonomous equals, a "United States of Germany." A Francophile, he sought ties with Paris in hope of containing Prussia. In February 1919, on the way to submit his government's resignation to the newly elected constitutionalassembly, Eisner was shot by a protofascist aristocrat, plunging Bavaria into political chaos from which Adolf Hitler would emerge. At the centenary of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, this is the first comprehensive biography of Eisner written for an English-language audience. Albert Earle Gurganus is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at The Citadel. He is the author of The Art of Revolution: Kurt Eisner's Agitprop (Camden House, 1986).Trade ReviewGurganus provides a detailed biography of the socialist intellectual Eisner, appreciating him not only in his role as minister-president of the Free State of Bavaria, which he himself proclaimed in 1918. The presentation of Eisner's life shows him in chronological fashion as a thinking, feeling, acting person of his time. Gurganus falls back on his research, which he began as far back as the 1970s, and provides a comprehensive evaluation of the archival sources. On hand of especially thorough reference to Eisner's numerous newspaper articles, Gurganus teases out his intellectual development and his political ideas. -- Laura Mokrohs * GERMANISTIK *It is important that an English-language study of the first Bavarian Minister-President is now available. -- Frank Jacob * FRANCIA-RECENSIO *[O]ne real strength of this book is that it confers a set of deeper strands to Eisner the public figure-what drove his politics, his journalism, and his relationships with others. . . . [A]n exemplary biography that takes us deep into the mind and context of its enigmatic subject. Gurganus's account is exhaustively researched without being overdetailed, and written with a captivating dramatic verve. . . . [T]he author more than meets his objective to cast his work for 'the broad band of English speakers' with a more general interest in early twentieth-century German history. -- Marcus Colla * GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY *Compelling. * QUARTERLY REVIEW *[A]n exhaustive biography of Eisner [that] provides detailed insight into the SPD's party life in late nineteenth-century Germany. . . . [S]hows the breadth of Eisner's erudition. . . . [W]e are offered a beautiful picture of [Eisner's] versatility as an intellectual . . . . -- Wim de Jong * H-SOCIALISMS *[T]his book is a tour de force. It provides a treasure trove of information on one of the early twentieth-century German left's seminal and all too often forgotten figures. -- Mark Jones * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction A Novel's Suffering Hero: A Youth in Berlin (1867-1889) Aristocratize the Masses: From Berlin to Frankfurt to Marburg (1890-1893) Refuge of All Idealists: Through Cohen to Kant toward Marx (1893-1896) Dictatorial Megalomania: Lèse Majesté and Plötzensee Prison (1896-1898) Making the Leap: Back to Berlin as a Social Democrat (1898-1900) No Idle Dreamer: At the Helm of Vorwärts (1900-1902) My Life's Purpose: Molding the Readership (1902-1903) Never . . . a Less Fruitful Scholastic Debate: Intramural Strife - Evolution vs. Revolution (1903-1905) Revolutionizing Minds: The Scorched Middle Ground (1905) The Complete Parity of My Experiences: From Exile to Nuremberg (1905-1907) The Most Genuine and Fruitful Radicalism: Taking the Lead at the Fränkische Tagespost (1907-1908) So Suspect a Heretic as Surely I Am: New Bearings in North Bavaria (1908) Dear Little Whore: Personal and Professional Turmoil (1909) To Find a Lost Life: From Nuremberg to Munich (1909-1910) Something of a Party Offiziosus in Bavaria: Political Editor at the Münchener Post (1910-1911) At Peace with Myself: Resettling into Family Life (1912-1913) The Powerlessness of Reason: The World War Erupts (1914) Wretched Superfluity: Divided Loyalties (1915-1916) War for War's Sake: Political Alienation and Realignment (1916-1917) The Most Beautiful Days of My Life: Leading the Opposition (1917-1918) Our Power to Act Now Grows: From Prisoner to Premier (1918) The Terror of Truth: Forging the Republic, Combatting Reaction (1918) The Fantasies of a Visionary: Martyr of the Revolution (1918-1919) Now Dead, as It Stands: Outcomes and Legacy (1919-2017) Abbreviations Notes Sources and References Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Inspiration Bonaparte?: German Culture and
Book Synopsis"In the Beginning was Napoleon"--"Napoleon and no end": Inspiration Bonaparte explores German responses to Bonaparte in literature, philosophy, painting, science, education, music, and film from his rise to the present. Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Contributing to what had been an uneasy German relationship with the French Revolution, the rise of Bonaparte was accompanied by a pattern of Franco-German hostilities that inspired both enthusiastic support and outraged dissent in the German-speaking states. The fourteen essays that comprise Inspiration Bonaparte examine the mythologization of Napoleon in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the significant impact of Napoleonic occupation on a broad range of fields including philosophy, painting, politics, the sciences, education, and film. As the contributions from leading scholars emphasize, the contradictory attitudes toward Bonaparte held by so many prominent German thinkers are a reflection of his enduring status as a figure through whom the trauma of shattered late-Enlightenment expectations of sociopolitical progress and evolving concepts of identity politics is mediated.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Seán Allan and Jeffrey L. High Part I. Napoleon: Art, Literature, and Occupation 1: Prelude-Pre-Occupation Bonaparte: Historical and Literary Conquerors in Schiller's Life, Thought, and Works Jeffrey L. High 2: Schiller's Johanna and Collin's Bianca as Women('s)-Liberators in Anti-Napoleonic Drama Rebecca Stewart 3: Friedrich Hölderlin, the French Revolution, and Napoleon: Politics, Poetry, Philosophy Laura Anna Macor 4: The Anecdote on the Battlefield: Napoleon-Kleist-Kluge Christian Moser 5: "Der große Schauspieler, Napoleon Buonaparte": August von Kotzebue's Antitheatrical Politics Elystan Griffiths 6: An Ingenious Tyrant: The Representation of Napoleon Bonaparte by German Women Writers Elisabeth Krimmer 7: Icons of Resistance: Kleist, Le Musée Napoléon, and Queen Luise of Prussia Seán Allan Part II. Napoleon: Political Science and Natural Science 8: The European Machine God: The Image of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Political Writings of Jean Paul Helmut J. Schneider 9: Saul Ascher's Napoleon Bernd Fischer 10: Napoleon's Campaigns: Models for "French" Revolutionary Science Abroad and at Home? Mary Orr 11: Napoleonic Occupation and the Militarization of the Sciences: The Case of Johannes Scherr and the Zurich Polytechnic Andrew Cusack Part III. Inspiration Bonaparte: German Receptions from Vormärz to the Present 12: "We are all possessed!" Napoleon and Inspiration in German Naturalist Drama Michael White 13: Arnold Schoenberg's Setting of Byron's Ode to Napoleon: Fighting Hitler's Regime in Byron's and Beethoven's Wake Wolf Kittler 14: The Emperor's Clothes: Napoleon as a Screen Icon Susanne Kord Notes on the Contributors Index
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Haymarket Books The Ballot, the Streets—or Both: From Marx and
Book SynopsisAugust Nimtz uncovers attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organization, and as a key way to measure your forces and communicate with the wider population. As radical left reformist projects, exemplified by Sanders and Corbyn, once again become a political force and the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, it's a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates.Trade Review“Lenin's reputation as a political thinker should rest on what he wrote and the role that played in the success of the Russian Revolution, and not in what happened 70 years later. No one has made this argument as clearly and with such impressive scholarship, and, therefore too, as convincingly as August Nimtz in this volume. And for something Lenin's electoral strategy that is at is at the center of most of the debates going on in progressive political parties and social movements everywhere today. We ignore Lenin's thinking on this subject at our own peril.” —Bertell Ollman, Professor of Politics, New York University, USA and author of Alienation and Dance of the Dialectic “Provides an impressively detailed account of the work of the Bolsheviks in the Russian par-liament, the Duma, during the pre-revolutionary period. … Nimtz’s book also shows Lenin’s great commitment to democracy, in the face of the common right wing smears against him as an elitist or a despot. … This is a thorough and readable summary of Lenin’s work on elections and the nature of parliaments.” —Richard Donnelly, International Socialism, Issue 157, 2018
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Haymarket Books The French Revolution and Social Democracy: The
Book SynopsisBeyond 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.Table of ContentsTable 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, 1917-34The 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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Haymarket Books Revolutions
Book SynopsisThe photographs collected in this unique book provide a startling visual documentation of seminal revolutionary events, from the Paris Commune of 1871 through to a series of "Unfinished Revolutions", from May 1968 in France to the Zapatista uprising in the mid-1990s. The immediacy of the images tells the story of these struggles in a way that texts rarely can, with revolutions appearing as complex and messy events driven by the actions of real, breathing humans who make their own history. Commentary on the images is provided by leading historians Gilbert Achcar, Enzo Traverso, Janette Habel, and Pierre Rousset, and Michael Löwy. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.Trade Review“Revolutions is a major contribution to our understanding of the principal social movements which shape our modern world. It brings us closer to the participants of history, it provides imagery beautiful and haunting, inspiring and brutal. It binds together the unknown agents of history, the ordinary people achieving the extraordinary, and the immortalised heroes of revolutionary movements.” —Aidan Ratchford, Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsThe Paris Commune, 1871The Russian Revolution, 1905The Russian Revolution, 1917The Hungarian Revolution, 1919The German Revolution, 1918-1919The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920The Chinese Revolutions, 1911 & 1949The Spanish Civil War, 1936The Cuban Revolution, 1953-1967Unfinished HistoryPostscript to the Brazilian Edition: Brazilian Revolutions?
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Haymarket Books The Austrian Revolution
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer’s magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers’ control, factory councils, and industrial democracy.The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer’s unique theorization of an "integral socialism" -- an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy -- is a vital part of the left’s intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.Trade Review"The appearance of Otto Bauer’s classic study, The Austrian Revolution, ably translated for the first time by Walter Baier and Eric Canepa, is ... a welcome addition to the English-language literature on Austrian history. First published in 1923, the book examines the republic’s early years from the perspective of one of European socialism’s leading theorists and one of Austria’s most important political actors. It is a work of history deeply informed by the author’s concrete political experience as well as his commitment to a Marxist approach to understanding unfolding events.” —Jacobin"It is largely thanks to Otto Bauer’s The Austrian Revolution that I discovered the richness of the Austro-Marxist tradition and the many affinities between the writings of Bauer and of our Gramsci, especially on the question of hegemony.’ – Luciana Castellina, co-founder of Il Manifesto"The revolution in Central Europe in 1918-21 was a giant event that came closer to changing world history than most of us realize. For English-speakers, this translation opens a challenging new window on the Austrian workers’ council movement and the role of the Entente powers in the counter-revolution that followed. Published in 1923, it stands unique as an analysis of the revolution’s internal dynamics and the costs of defeat.’ – Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums"Otto Bauer’s The Austrian Revolution is one of the classics of Marxist political analysis comparable to Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire or Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, and it is one of the forgotten shining gems of the extraordinarily rich literature of Austro-Marxism." – Michael R. Krätke, author of Friedrich Engels"Red Vienna and the contributions of its protagonists like Otto Bauer are tragically overlooked on the contemporary left. Baier and Canepa have edited a thrilling work from Bauer with the aim of correcting that―and to chart a new course for those looking for alternatives to bankrupt social-democratic parties and defeated Leninist ones."– Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin Table of ContentsFirst Section: War and RevolutionThe Southern Slavs and the WarThe Czechs and the EmpireThe Poles and the Central PowersGerman Austria in the WarSecond Section: The UpheavalThe Formation of the "Nation-States"The Disintegration of the EmpireThe German-Austrian RepublicNational and Social RevolutionThird Section: The Predominance of the Working ClassRevolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary ForcesBetween Imperialism and BolshevismThe Revolution in the FactoriesThe State and the Working ClassFourth Section: The Period of Equilibrium Between Class ForcesEconomic Upheaval and Social RegroupingThe Struggle for Republican InstitutionsThe Battle Against the Counter-RevolutionThe People’s RepublicFifth Section: The Restoration of the BourgeoisieThe Monetary CatastropheThe Geneva TreatyThe Outcome of the Revolution and the Tasks of Social DemocracIndex
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Haymarket Books The Austrian Revolution
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer’s magisterial work — available in English for the first time in full — charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers’ control, factory councils, and industrial democracy.The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer’s unique theorization of an “integral socialism” — an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy — is a vital part of the left’s intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.Table of ContentsFirst Section: War and RevolutionThe Southern Slavs and the WarThe Czechs and the EmpireThe Poles and the Central PowersGerman Austria in the WarSecond Section: The UpheavalThe Formation of the “Nation-States”The Disintegration of the EmpireThe German-Austrian RepublicNational and Social RevolutionThird Section: The Predominance of the Working ClassRevolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary ForcesBetween Imperialism and BolshevismThe Revolution in the FactoriesThe State and the Working ClassFourth Section: The Period of Equilibrium Between Class ForcesEconomic Upheaval and Social RegroupingThe Struggle for Republican InstitutionsThe Battle Against the Counter-RevolutionThe People’s RepublicFifth Section: The Restoration of the BourgeoisieThe Monetary CatastropheThe Geneva TreatyThe Outcome of the Revolution and the Tasks of Social DemocracIndex
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Haymarket Books Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting
Book SynopsisIn Workers ' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina 's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers ' occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country 's neo-liberal crisis. Since then, around 400 companies have been taken over and converted to cooperatives by almost 16,000 workers. Grounded in class-struggle Marxism and a critical sociology of work, the book situates the ERT movement in Argentina 's long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers ' responses to capitalist crisis. Beginning with the voices of the movement 's protagonists, Vieta ultimately develops a compelling social theory of autogestión -- a politically prefigurative and ethically infused notion of workers ' self-management that unleashes radical social change for work organisations, surrounding communities, and beyond.Trade Review"Cooperative enterprises, workers' self-management and new forms of industrial democracy—these are the stirring themes animating Marcelo Vieta's original and exciting book. Using a stunning set of interviews, buttressed by historical investigation and deep theoretical inquiry, Workers' Self-Management in Argentina illuminates movements of occupation, recuperation and autogestión in Argentina in recent years. There is virtually nothing like this book when it comes to the study of lived practices of workers' control today. Everyone searching for alternatives to neoliberalism and the domination of labor will relish this powerful and important work."—David McNally, author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance and Monsters of the Market."Marcelo Vieta's Workers' Self-Management in Argentina is one of the most important books on contemporary labour and democracy. The volume masterfully revisits and extends theory on autogestión (loosely translated as self-management in English) and places it in richly detailed historical, economic, and social contexts. The book employs three in-depth case studies of "worker-recuperated" firms in today's Argentina and at the same time beautifully integrates those with an analysis of work and economy in Argentina especially over the past two decades. The comparisons of lessons from the experiences of workers in those firms for other national contexts gives the analysis an expansiveness seldom found in case-based studies of worklife and labour arrangements. Vieta's longitudinal study and insightful commentary provide must reading for anyone interested in the intricacies of and possibilities for democratic revival from the shop floor and board rooms to communities and the global economy."—George Cheney, author of Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization."Marcelo Vieta's book ranges far beyond the bounds of its Argentine analysis. It is thoroughly researched and grounded in "class struggle Marxist" theory and reflects a prolonged and deep understanding of and commitment to global working-class enterprise autonomy struggles. In this Vieta provides a powerful and meaningful critique and alternative to neo-liberal capitalism."—Peter Ranis, author of Cooperatives Confronting Capitalism: Challenging the Neo-liberal Economy and Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness."I was consistently impressed by Vieta's impeccable scholarship and deeply-thought argumentation. Theoretically, it this work is oriented around the perspective of class-struggle Marxism, but is also informed by a deep knowledge of the history and practices of trades unionism, cooperativism, and social and solidarity economics in Argentina, Latin America and internationally. The work situates empresas recuperadas (ERTs) within the history of the Argentine class-composition and workers movements. It shows how the ERT practice of "occupy, resist, produce" generated a series of "radical social innovations" affecting economic activities, political formations and trans-individual subject formation. From this study Vieta draws important conclusions about the circumstances in which the potential for self-directed worker activities is actualized in ways that point beyond the existing system of production relations. I want to reiterate how impressed I am by this work. It is a major contribution to scholarship on the global worker of the twenty first century."—Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism and Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex."This book is a tremendous gift. A must read for scholars, activists and all who want to learn how to retake our lives and create something new. Within these pages Vieta has detailed the history of class struggle in Argentina, bringing us to this historical moment, grounded in a new conceptualization of autogestión. Workers taking back—recuperating—their sense of worth and dignity though directly democratic workplace recuperations. Distinct from occupations, making demands on bosses and states, in recuperations workers re-claim what is theirs/ours. Vieta's lens offers a unique insider/outsider perspective, as an Argentine scholar based in Canada. His methodological approach, also innovative, combines global ethnography, history, political science, economics and sociology. Most of all, in Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Vieta shows, by way of extended examples, that people can self-organize their work and life, in ways that are horizontal, effective and affective"—Marina Sitrin, author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy, co-authored with Dario Azzellini. Table of ContentsIntroduction The Emergence of Argentina 's Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores: From Workers ' Lived Experiences of Crisis to Autogestión Theorising and Historicising Autogestión The Consolidation of Argentina 's Empresas Recuperadas: Common Experiences, Challenges, and Social Transformations Recuperating Autogestión
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Haymarket Books Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class
Book SynopsisThrough extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices of socialists in Tsarist Russia's imperial borderlands. These parties fought for democracy and workers' power across the entire span of the Russian Empire—from the factories of Warsaw, to the oil fields of Baku, to the autonomous parliament of Finland. Eric Blanc's incisive study of these parties shows that the Russian Revolution was far less Russian than is commonly assumed. And the implications of this discovery challenge the long-held assumptions of historians, sociologists, and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change under both autocratic and democratic conditions.Trade Review"Eric Blanc's remarkable new book should revolutionize the way scholars and activists think about the Russian Revolution. By looking not just at Petrograd or Russia but at the entire Russian Empire—including Finland, Ukraine, and Poland—Blanc's pathbreaking comparative analysis examines how and why revolutionary processes diverge under parliamentary and autocratic regimes. Drawing on far-flung sources in eight languages, Blanc breaks with the Russocentrism of earlier accounts and effectively deprovincializes the revolution. Among other things, he demonstrates that Lenin and the Bolsheviks were not nearly as exceptional as is often thought. This book is an extraordinary achievement." —Jeff Goodwin, New York University "Anyone interested in the Russian Revolution will need to read this outstanding contribution. Puncturing myths, cliches, and unsupported interpretations, Eric Blanc explores a forgotten historical reality—revolutionary social democracy—by vividly documenting the actual strategic outlooks and local practices of Second International Marxists across the Russian Empire, as well as Germany, the homeland of this political current. An impressively wide reading in sources from many languages allows Blanc to demonstrate the importance of borderland socialists in the revolutionary drama, bringing to life activists at all levels of party organizations throughout imperial Russia and challenging us to rethink long-held assumptions about major figures such as Lenin and Kautsky." —Lars T. Lih, author Lenin Rediscovered "Through impressive research and erudite argumentation, this monumental study of the broad array of 'revolutionary social democratic' parties that operated in the non-Russian borderlands of the Tsarist Empire in the decades leading to 1917 definitively shows why there was no 'one-size-fits-all' revolutionary practice and why there is no reason to overgeneralize the international relevance of the form taken by the October Revolution. A tour de force which provides strong historical foundations for all those today working to develop an anticapitalist, democratic socialist political strategy for renewed working-class formation and state transformation." —Leo Panitch, former editor Socialist RegisterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables Introduction 1 Bringing in the Borderlands 2 Strategic Continuities and Ruptures 3 Method, Structure, Sources 1 The Social Context 1 The Workers’ Movement 2 The Unique Impact of Orthodox Marxism 3 Socialist Political Cultures 2 Revolutionary Social Democracy: An Overview 1 The ABC s of Revolutionary Social Democracy 2 Strategy and Tactics in Germany and Russia 3 Intellectuals and Workers 1 Intellectuals and the Tensions of Class Formation 2 Intellectuals and Workers (1905–17) 4 Organisation, Mass Action, and Electoral Work 1 Socialist Organisation in Finland 2 Illegal Organising in Tsarist Russia 3 The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split 4 The First Mass Strike Debates (1903–04) 5 Mass Action and Organisation in 1905 6 Party Organisation and Mass Action (1906–14) 7 War and Revolution 8 Mass Organisation and Action in Finland: 1917–18 5 Working-Class Hegemony 1 Analysing Liberalism 2 Tactics Towards Liberals 3 The Bund versus Zionism (1897–1904) 4 The PPS and the National Democrats Before 1905 5 Class Independence in Finland 6 Early Russian Marxism and Liberals 7 Working-Class Hegemony (1905–16) 8 Proletarian Hegemony and Liberals (1906–16) 6 Working-Class Unity 1 United Front Practices Before 1905 2 Workers’ Unity and the 1905 Revolution 3 Implementing the United Front (1906–18) 4 Disunity in Europe and Poland 7 The Party Question 1 The German SPD Model 2 Finland’s Social Democracy 3 The Normalcy of Splits in Underground Russia 4 The Split of Polish Socialism 5 The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split 8 Democracy, the State, and the Finnish Revolution 1 Critique of Bourgeois Democracy 2 The Socialist Revolution 3 The State and Revolution in Finland (1917–18) 9 The Autocratic State and Revolution: 1905 1 State Power and Marxist Strategy in 1905 2 The Practice of Revolutionary Government in 1905 3 Socialist Transformation in Russia 4 International Revolution 10 The State and Revolution in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland: 1917–19 1 Moderate Socialists and Dual Power in 1917 2 Moderates Join the Government 3 Russian Moderate Socialists in the October Revolution 4 Moderate Socialists in Ukraine: 1917–18 5 Moderate Socialism in Poland: 1918–19 6 Bolsheviks and State Power: February–March 1917 7 Breaking with the Bourgeoisie: April–October Epilogue: An International Revolution Defeated 1 Civil War and Authoritarianism 2 International Revolution 3 Impasse in the Imperial Periphery Bibliography Index
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Haymarket Books Toward a New World: Articles and Essays,
Book SynopsisAlexander Bogdanov wrote the articles in this volume in the years before and during the Revolution of 1905 when he was co-leader, with V.I. Lenin, of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, and was active in the revolution and the struggle against Marxist revisionism.In these pieces, Bogdanov defends the principles of revolutionary Social-Democracy on the basis of a neutral monist philosophy (empiriomonism), the idea of the invariable regularity of nature, and the use of the principle of selection to explain social development. The articles in On the Psychology of Society (1904/06) discredit the neo-Kantian philosophy of Russia's Marxist revisionists, rebut their critique of historical materialism, and develop the idea that labour technology determines social consciousness. New World (1905) envisions how humankind will develop under socialism, and Bogdanov's contributions to Studies in the Realist Worldview (1904/05) defend the labour theory of value and criticise neo-Kantian sociology. Table of ContentsTranslator's IntroductionPart 1 On the Psychology of SocietyFrom the Author1 In the Field of View2 What Is Idealism?3 The Development of Life in Nature and in Society4 Authoritarian Thinking5 A New Middle Ages: On Problems of Idealism6 A New Middle Ages: On the Benefit of Knowledge7 A New Middle Ages: Echoes of the Past8 A New Middle Ages: A Philosophical Nightmare9 Revolution and PhilosophyPart 2 New WorldFrom the Author10 The Integration of Humankind11 Norms and Goals of Life12 The Accursed Questions of PhilosophyPart 3 Studies in the Realist WorldviewIntroduction to the First EditionIntroduction to the Second Edition13 Exchange and Technology14 Legal Society and Labour SocietyBibliographyIndex
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Pegasus Books The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion
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Captivating History Black History: A Captivating Guide to African
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Academica Press Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar,
Book SynopsisIn Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar, translator Helen Azar and Romanov historian Nicholas B. A. Nicholson present for the first time in English the annotated 1916-1918 diaries and letters of Russia’s Grand Duke Michael, from the murder of the Siberian mystic Grigorii Rasputin through the Revolution of 1917, which dethroned the Romanov dynasty after Michael briefly found himself named Emperor when his brother Nicholas II abdicated. Michael’s diaries provide rare insight into the fall of the Empire, the rise and fall of the Provisional Government and brief Russian republic, and the terrifying days of the February and October Revolutions after which Michael found himself a prisoner who would meet his end in the Siberian city of Perm.Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, but with the death of his brother Grand Duke George in 1899, Michael was thrust into the spotlight and the role of “Heir-Tsesarevich” to Emperor Nicholas II, then the father of three girls. Even after the birth of an heir in 1904, Michael found himself pushed closer to the throne with each of the boy’s bouts of hemophilia. By 1916 during World War I, Nicholas and Alexandra found themselves deeply unpopular not only in political circles but also with other members of the House of Romanov, who felt that the parlous times required drastic change. Michael found himself at the center of these events.Azar’s translation is uniquely faithful to the original text and gives readers the feeling of the immediacy and haste in Michael’s original observations of these tumultuous times. Nicholson’s annotations provide biographical and historical background, while quoting dozens of other rare primary sources.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Last Libertines
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Pegasus Books 1956: The World in Revolt
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Pegasus Revolution
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Pegasus Books The French Revolution
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in
Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.”— Geneviève Boucher, associate professor of French, University of Ottawa “A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.”— Laurence Mall, author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction “This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.”— Fabienne Moore, author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre “Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.”— Fayçal Falaky, author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in RousseauTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in
Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.” -- Laurence Mall * author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction *“This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.” -- Fabienne Moore * author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre *“Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.” -- Fayçal Falaky * author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau *“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.” -- Geneviève Boucher * associate professor of French, University of Ottawa *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Gooseberry Patch Siege at the State House: The 1879 Coup that
Book SynopsisSiege at the State House tells the true story of a coup that was attempted between Maine’s governor and the leaders of a new political party, almost plunging the United States into its second Civil War. With the Maine State House under siege for several weeks by a confederate force, the occupation culminated in a showdown between armed rebels and Civil War hero General Joshua Chamberlain, with Chamberlain standing on the State House steps, exposing his chest, and daring any man present to settle the standoff with violence, if they dared. It was an event the war hero called “Another Roundtop.” In light of recent national events, this piece of Maine history is a timely and cautionary tale brought to life by historian Mac Smith. Elements of the story include a Christmas Day raid on Maine’s weapons arsenal, missing election results, and seven jackasses.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and
Book SynopsisA unique historical account of poor peoples? self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of their lands and labor For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults known as enclosures or clearances, shared common land became privately-owned capital, and peasant farmers became propertyless laborers who could only survive by working for the owners of land or capital.As Ian Angus documents in The War Against the Commons, mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased. His dramatic account provides new insights into an opposition that ranged from stubborn non-compliance to open rebellion, including eyewitness accounts of campaigns in which thousands of protestors tore down fences and restored common access to pastures and forests. Such movements, he shows, led to the Diggers? call for a new society based on shared ownership and use of the land, an appeal that was more sophisticated and radical than anything else written before the 1800s.Contrary to many accounts that treat the reorganization of agriculture as a purely domestic matter, Angus shows that there were close connections between the enclosures in Britain and imperial expansion. The consolidation of some of the largest estates in England and Scotland was directly financed by the forced labor of African slaves and the colonial plunder of India.This unique historical account of ruling class robbery and poor peoples? resistance offers answers to key questions about the history of capitalism. Was enclosure a ?necessary evil? that enabled economic growth? What role did deliberate promotion of hunger play in the creation of the working class? How did Marx and Engels view the separation of workers from the land, and how does resistance to enclosure continue in the 21st century?
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Baraka Books Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants: Mission to
Book SynopsisClaude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they defended victims of dictatorship, opposed rapacious policies and economic doctrines, consoled the downtrodden, and breathed new hope and courage into a people who desperately needed it. These men and women remain an inspiration for those who still believe in a better world. This is the story of Claude Lacaille's experience from 1965 through 1986 in the slums and squats in the Caribbean and South America and also what it really means to have a preferential option for the poor. His book shows how liberation theology and spirituality enkindled the life and the work of an ordinary Quebec missionary.Trade ReviewThe secret lies in the metaphor, the lovely 'closing the windows that John XXIII had opened to let fresh air in.' Because the entire book is beautifully written, and admirably translated by Casey Roberts, making its thoughtful points throughout in wonderful, poetic language . . . . As Lacaille recounts these colourful missions, the book really does come to life. There is a potted political history of South America. There are masses in Creole, touching anecdotes, and crises of faith ('People are starving to death and I’m singing masses!'). There are visits to Quebec’s Inuit and the potato fields of New Brunswick. And, most strikingly, there is wrenching poverty, political prisoners, terror, repression, activism, and resistance in Chile. A fascinating, inspiring read." —Peter McCambridge, quebecreads.com"The author’s accounts of his ministry contain some humour (soldiers who mistake the Bible for a local revolutionary document), much sadness, and tragedy more real than any Hollywood narrative . . . . Lacaille’s autobiography has all the ingredients of great fiction, which makes it more astonishing as truth." —Matthew R. Anderson, Montreal Review of Books"Lacaille’s story is at times harrowing. At other times, it is heroic, although he would most certainly deny any heroism . . . . Rebel Priest is a valuable document. It provides a personal story of a movement in the Catholic Church that stood up against monopoly capitalism and dictatorship." —Ron Jacobs, counterpunch.org
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