Eric Blanc is a doctoral student in sociology at New York University and the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso 2019).

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Introduction

 1  Bringing in the Borderlands

 2  Strategic Continuities and Ruptures

 3  Method, Structure, Sources

1 The Social Context

 1  The Workers’ Movement

 2  The Unique Impact of Orthodox Marxism

 3  Socialist Political Cultures

2 Revolutionary Social Democracy: An Overview

 1  The ABC s of Revolutionary Social Democracy

 2  Strategy and Tactics in Germany and Russia

3 Intellectuals and Workers

 1  Intellectuals and the Tensions of Class Formation

 2  Intellectuals and Workers (1905–17)

4 Organisation, Mass Action, and Electoral Work

 1  Socialist Organisation in Finland

 2  Illegal Organising in Tsarist Russia

 3  The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split

 4  The First Mass Strike Debates (1903–04)

 5  Mass Action and Organisation in 1905

 6  Party Organisation and Mass Action (1906–14)

 7  War and Revolution

 8  Mass Organisation and Action in Finland: 1917–18

5 Working-Class Hegemony

 1  Analysing Liberalism

 2  Tactics Towards Liberals

 3  The Bund versus Zionism (1897–1904)

 4  The PPS and the National Democrats Before 1905

 5  Class Independence in Finland

 6  Early Russian Marxism and Liberals

 7  Working-Class Hegemony (1905–16)

 8  Proletarian Hegemony and Liberals (1906–16)

6 Working-Class Unity

 1  United Front Practices Before 1905

 2  Workers’ Unity and the 1905 Revolution

 3  Implementing the United Front (1906–18)

 4  Disunity in Europe and Poland

7 The Party Question

 1  The German SPD Model

 2  Finland’s Social Democracy

 3  The Normalcy of Splits in Underground Russia

 4  The Split of Polish Socialism

 5  The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split

8 Democracy, the State, and the Finnish Revolution

 1  Critique of Bourgeois Democracy

 2  The Socialist Revolution

 3  The State and Revolution in Finland (1917–18)

9 The Autocratic State and Revolution: 1905

 1  State Power and Marxist Strategy in 1905

 2  The Practice of Revolutionary Government in 1905

 3  Socialist Transformation in Russia

 4  International Revolution

10 The State and Revolution in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland: 1917–19

 1  Moderate Socialists and Dual Power in 1917

 2  Moderates Join the Government

 3  Russian Moderate Socialists in the October Revolution

 4  Moderate Socialists in Ukraine: 1917–18

 5  Moderate Socialism in Poland: 1918–19

 6  Bolsheviks and State Power: February–March 1917

 7  Breaking with the Bourgeoisie: April–October

Epilogue: An International Revolution Defeated

 1  Civil War and Authoritarianism

 2  International Revolution

 3  Impasse in the Imperial Periphery

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