The French Revolution and social democracy : : the transmission of history and its political uses in Germany and Austria, 1889-1934 / / Jean-Numa Ducange; translated by David Broder.

• VerfasserIn: Ducange, Jean-Numa, 1980-
• TeilnehmendeR: Broder, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; French
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 175.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: First printed as La Revolution francaise et la social-democratie Transmissions et usages politiques de l'histoire en Allemagne et Autriche, 1889-1934 by Presses Universitair Rennes in 2012.

Beyond France’s own national historiography, the French Revolution was a fundamental point of reference for the nineteenth-century socialist movement. As Jean-Numa Ducange tells us, while Karl Marx never wrote his planned history of the Revolution, from 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 Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface to the English Edition -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Social Democracy and the French Revolution before 1889 -- The Development, Crisis and Renewal of the Reference to the French Revolution and Its History (1889–1905) -- 1889: the Social-Democrats’ Centenary -- The ‘Long Centenary’, 1890–5 -- Revising Orthodoxy, Re-exploring History -- The Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Analogies with 1789 -- The Entrenchment of a Reference (1906–17) -- The New Conditions of Social-Democratic Production -- New Works on the French Revolution -- The Social-Democratic Educational Apparatus from 1906 to 1914 -- A Powerful Machine -- The Reference to 1789: Powerful yet Ambiguous -- Reinterpretations and New Approaches, 1917–34 -- The Social Democracies’ New Course -- The Power of Analogies, in the Face of New Revolutions: 1917–23 -- Continuities and New Approaches in the Mid-1920s -- New Readings of the French Revolution -- Analogies and Controversies: the French Revolution, 1927–34 -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.