TY - BOOK AU - Hoffrogge,Ralf TI - Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement T2 - Historical Materialism Book Series SN - 9789004280069 AV - HD6695.M85 H6413 20 U1 - 943.085092 PY - 2014/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Sisyphus of the Revolution: A Preface -- Author's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: A Forgotten Revolutionary -- The Politics of Historical Interpretation -- The Makers of the German Revolution -- Chapter 2 Background, Youth, and Early Union Activities: 1880-1913 -- From Farm to Factory -- Müller's Private Life -- Fighting Taylorism with its Own Weapons -- Bureaucracy in the Service of Agitation -- Chapter 3 Opposition to the Burgfrieden: 1914-18 -- 'The Great Betrayal' -- From Discipline to Opposition -- Early Ambiguities and their Price -- Chapter 4 The Revolutionary Shop Stewards and Political Mass Strikes: 1916-18 -- The Stewards' First Political Strike: Protesting Liebknecht's Arrest -- Repression and the New Opposition -- Müller's Arrest and the April Strike -- Marking Time under Repression -- Preparing for the January Strike: Rising Discontent and the Bolshevik Example -- The January 1918 Strike: Council Power Emerges -- The Politics of the Action Committee and the End of the January Strike -- Barth and Däumig Lead in Müller's Absence -- Müller's Return -- Chapter 5 The German Revolution in Berlin: 1918 -- The Stewards and the Spartacists: A Tale of Two Styles -- Arming the Revolution -- Outbreak -- Council Power -- The State of the Revolution -- Chapter 6 Chairman of the Berlin Executive Council: 1918-19 -- Conflict, Caution and Counter-revolution -- Loss of National Power -- Chapter 7 Richard Müller and the Council Movement: 1918-19 -- The Council Movement in War and Revolution -- The First Council Congress and the Triumph of Parliamentarianism -- The Blocked Path to Socialism -- Berlin's January Uprising -- Political Murder, Demoralisation, and the End of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards -- Theorising Council Socialism -- The March Strikes of 1919 -- After the Tumult; Chapter 8 From Council Movement to Works Councils: 1919-20 -- Council Ideal and Works Council Reality -- Leading the Left Opposition in the DMV -- Defeat at Nuremberg, Compromise in Stuttgart -- The Works Councils Act, Armed Conflict and Party Split -- DMV Political Divisions and the Works Council Centre -- The First Works Council Congress 1920 -- The State of the Revolution in 1920 -- Chapter 9 From Council Socialism to Party Communism and Beyond: 1920-24 -- The Leninist Model and the USPD Split -- The Communist Union Centre -- The Red International of Labour Unions -- Crisis in the Communist Party and the March Action of 1921 -- Post-March Crises and 'Made in Moscow' Resolution -- The Revelation Affair -- Müller, the Unwanted Communist -- Chapter 10 Richard Müller as Historian of the German Revolution: 1923-25 -- Müller's Historiographical Approach -- Müller as Publisher -- Chapter 11 Footnotes and Suppression - Richard Müller's Impact on Historiography -- The Millstones of Social Democracy and Marxism-Leninism -- Müller in East Germany -- Müller in West Germany -- Chapter 12 Break with Politics, Withdrawal into Private Life: 1925-43 -- The DIV, the 'Construction Issue' and Union Fragmentation -- Müller as Landlord -- Drifting Back to Social Democracy? -- Returning to Obscurity -- Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Darkness of History -- Bibliography -- 1 Printed Sources -- 2 Literature -- Index N2 - In this biography of Richard Müller (1880-1943), the leading protagonist of the 1918 German Revolution, Ralf Hoffrogge lifts Müller and his council socialist Shop Stewards' movement out of obscurity, showing how grassroots working class radicalism animated the most powerful working class revolution in the western world to date UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1815784 ER -