Table of Contents:
  • The historical background
  • Early social and ideological elements
  • The path to the mass movement, 1890-1894
  • The rise of the mass movement, 1894-1897
  • The early stage of the political movement
  • The founding of the Bund
  • The first central committee
  • The rebuilding of the center
  • The local organizations, 1897-1899
  • The national question and economism
  • A period of transition, 1900-1901
  • The politicization of the Bund
  • The reassessment of the national question
  • The Bund and Iskra: the first clashes
  • The Bund and Iskra: party organization
  • The Second RSDWP Congress
  • The Bund and the State, 1903-1905
  • The Bund and Jewish society, 1903-1905
  • The competing forces of revolution, 1903-1905
  • The Revolution of 1905
  • Epilogue.