The myth of the nation and the vision of revolution : the origins of ideological polarisation in the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Talmon, J. L. (Jacob Leib), 1916-1980
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Berkeley : Secker & Warburg ; University of California Press, 1981, ©1980.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Marx, Engels and the Nation
  • 1. The Chiliastic Period of Marx and Engels
  • 2. Europe is Pregnant with Revolution
  • 3. The Revolution One and Indivisible
  • 4. Polen Scharmerei
  • 5. Right and Force in Global Revolutionary Strategy
  • 6. The Incomplete Theory
  • 7. Conclusions
  • PART II. The Emancipation of the Proletariat and the National Destiny-Wilhelmine Germany
  • 1. Two Casts of Mind-Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein
  • 2. Revolutionary Orthodoxy and Reformist Heresy
  • 3. The Portia of an Internationalist Revolutionary as a Young Woman
  • 4. The Response to a Prophet
  • 5. A Polarized Nation-The Second Reich
  • 6. The Lesson of 1905 in Russia
  • 7. The World Revolution One and Indivisible-In the Age of Imperialism
  • 8. Nationalist Separatism or Revolutionary Class Internationalism in Polish Socialism
  • PART III. "The Witches' Kitchen" and Its Brew: The Nationalities Problem-Austria
  • 1. Austria as the Historic Test Case
  • 2. Class or Nation?
  • 3. The Burden of Irrational History versus Modernization
  • 4. "A Struggle for Life and Death"
  • 5. Democracy Eroded by Nationalism
  • 6. The Failure of Socialist Internationalism
  • 7. A Socialist Theory of Nationality
  • PART IV: The Jewish Dimension
  • 1. The Alien Fermenting Ingredient and the Mountainous Shadow
  • 2. The Pioneer and the Usurper
  • 3. Test Case and Touchstone
  • 4. The Encounter between Jew and Gentile in Modern Society
  • 5. "The Social Question is the Jewish Question"
  • 6. The Road to Auschwitz-Racism
  • 7. The Encounter with Revolution
  • PART V. Russia-Holy, Profaned and Predestines
  • 1. Russia-Holy Profaned and Predestined
  • 2. The Birth of a Revolutionary Ideology
  • Belinsky and Herzen
  • 3. Loosening the Spiritual Arcana Imperii
  • 4. The Antinomies
  • 5. A Russian Version of Totalitarian Democracy
  • 6. When "Consistency Reaches the Point of Monstrosity"
  • PART 6. Lenin-International Revolutionary and Architect of New Russia
  • 1. The Formative Years
  • 2. War and Revolution
  • PART 7. The General Will of the Global Proletariat-Universal Totalitarian Democracy
  • Part 8. From Georges Sorel to Benito Mussolini-- 1. The Legacy of Georges Sorrel
  • Marxism, Violence, Fascism-- 2. Mussolini and the Fascists Denouement
  • Part 9. The German Revolution of 1918 and Hitler in the Wings
  • 1. The Dilemmas of the German Revolution of 1918
  • 2. Hitler in the Wings.