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The French Revolution and Social Democracy: The Transmission of History and Its Political Uses in Germany and Austria, 1889-1934
Contributor(s): Ducange, Jean-Numa (Author)
ISBN: 1642590533     ISBN-13: 9781642590531
Publisher: Haymarket Books
OUR PRICE:   $28.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- History | Revolutionary
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism
Series: Historical Materialism
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 358 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Germany
 
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Beyond France's own national historiography, the French Revolution was a fundamental point of reference for the nineteenth-century socialist movement. While Karl Marx never wrote his planned history of the Revolution, beginning in 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.