The Austrian Revolution Contributor(s): Bauer, Otto (Author), Canepa, Eric (Editor), Canepa, Eric (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1642591629 ISBN-13: 9781642591620 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - History | Revolutionary - History | Eastern Europe - General |
Dewey: 943.605 |
Physical Information: 1.34" H x 5.91" W x 8.9" (1.60 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This 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. |