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.

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-democ...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2019]
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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.
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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.