Revolutionary Social Democracy

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
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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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