The French Revolution and Social Democracy : The Transmission of History and Its Political Uses in Germany and Austria, 1889-1934.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface to the English Edition -- ‎The 'Kautskyan Moment' -- ‎Questions of Method -- ‎Historical Time and Historical Narration -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Illustrations -- ‎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) -- ‎Chapter 1. 1889: the Social-Democrats' Centenary -- ‎Chapter 2. The 'Long Centenary', 1890-5 -- ‎Chapter 3. Revising Orthodoxy, Re-exploring History -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 5. New Works on the French Revolution -- ‎Chapter 6. The Social-Democratic Educational Apparatus from 1906 to 1914 -- ‎Chapter 7. A Powerful Machine -- ‎Chapter 8. The Reference to 1789: Powerful yet Ambiguous -- ‎Part 3. Reinterpretations and New Approaches, 1917-34 -- ‎The Social Democracies' New Course -- ‎Chapter 9. The Power of Analogies, in the Face of New Revolutions: 1917-23 -- ‎Chapter 10. Continuities and New Approaches in the Mid-1920s -- ‎Chapter 11. New Readings of the French Revolution -- ‎Chapter 12. Analogies and Controversies: the French Revolution, 1927-34 -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎References -- ‎Index.

In The French Revolution and Social Democracy Jean-Numa Ducange explores the important legacy of the French Revolution, and its different interpretations, in the culture of German-speaking social democracy.

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