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Intro; Series Foreword; Acknowledgements; Praise for The German Revolution and Political Theory; Contents; List of Contributors; The "Forgotten" German Revolution: A Conceptual Map; Historical Introduction; Political Parties During the Revolution; Historiography of the German Revolution; Structure of the Book; References; Part I Rethinking the Revolution; Women in the German Revolution; Days of Revolution; Women in the Councils; Women's Participation in the Revolution Beyond Berlin; Rosa Luxemburg as Symbol and Actor; Meaning of the Revolution for Women; References
The German Revolution and the Radical RightThe Freikorps: Enacting a Counter-Revolutionary Violence; Colonialism, Race, and the Roots of Radical Right Violence; Anti-Bolshevism as Revolutionary Ideal; References; Revolutionary Berlin: Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century; The German Sonderweg and the Labour Movement; Berlin's Engineering Factories in Peace and War; The November Revolution; The Dynamics of the Revolution in Berlin; Consequences-From SPD to NSDAP, from Lenin to Stalin; References; Working-Class Politics in the Bremen Council Republic; Introduction
The Council and Other InstitutionsConstituting the Demos; Visions of Post-Revolutionary Society; Conclusions; Archival Sources; Revolutionary Principles and Strategy in the November Revolution: The Case of the USPD; Background; The Revolution's Erfurtian Moments; Kautsky's Programme; The National Assembly Means the Councils' Death?; Rosenberg's Gambit; The Problem of the Revolutionary Majority; Two Models of Revolutionary Practice; Revolutionary Means and Ends; References; Part II Political Theorists of the German Revolution; Eduard Bernstein and the Lessons of the German Revolution
Reform or Revolution, RevisitedSocialist Science Versus Anti-socialist Myth; Constructive Politics Versus Protest Politics; Political Theory and Political Practice; Conclusion; References; Karl Kautsky and the Theory of Socialist Republicanism; Introduction; Kautsky's Defence of Socialist Republicanism; Theorising Plebian Power: Two Models of Political Radicalism; Towards a Theory of Radical Constitutionalism; Socialism and Democracy; References; Democracy and Dictatorship: Rosa Luxemburg's Path to Revolution; Introduction; Democracy and Dictatorship
Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the ProletariatDemocratic Revolution and Socialist Democracy; Conclusion; References; Richard Müller, Ernst Däumig and the "Pure" Council System; The Council Movement During the War and Revolution; The First Council Congress and the Triumph of Parliamentarianism; Theorising Council Socialism; References; Gustav Landauer and the Revolutionary Principle of Non-violent Non-cooperation; Introduction; Historical Context of the Council Revolution: Kurt Eisner and Gustav Landauer; Kurt Eisner and Gustav Landauer on the Councils' Revolution; Epilogue
The German Revolution and the Radical RightThe Freikorps: Enacting a Counter-Revolutionary Violence; Colonialism, Race, and the Roots of Radical Right Violence; Anti-Bolshevism as Revolutionary Ideal; References; Revolutionary Berlin: Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century; The German Sonderweg and the Labour Movement; Berlin's Engineering Factories in Peace and War; The November Revolution; The Dynamics of the Revolution in Berlin; Consequences-From SPD to NSDAP, from Lenin to Stalin; References; Working-Class Politics in the Bremen Council Republic; Introduction
The Council and Other InstitutionsConstituting the Demos; Visions of Post-Revolutionary Society; Conclusions; Archival Sources; Revolutionary Principles and Strategy in the November Revolution: The Case of the USPD; Background; The Revolution's Erfurtian Moments; Kautsky's Programme; The National Assembly Means the Councils' Death?; Rosenberg's Gambit; The Problem of the Revolutionary Majority; Two Models of Revolutionary Practice; Revolutionary Means and Ends; References; Part II Political Theorists of the German Revolution; Eduard Bernstein and the Lessons of the German Revolution
Reform or Revolution, RevisitedSocialist Science Versus Anti-socialist Myth; Constructive Politics Versus Protest Politics; Political Theory and Political Practice; Conclusion; References; Karl Kautsky and the Theory of Socialist Republicanism; Introduction; Kautsky's Defence of Socialist Republicanism; Theorising Plebian Power: Two Models of Political Radicalism; Towards a Theory of Radical Constitutionalism; Socialism and Democracy; References; Democracy and Dictatorship: Rosa Luxemburg's Path to Revolution; Introduction; Democracy and Dictatorship
Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the ProletariatDemocratic Revolution and Socialist Democracy; Conclusion; References; Richard Müller, Ernst Däumig and the "Pure" Council System; The Council Movement During the War and Revolution; The First Council Congress and the Triumph of Parliamentarianism; Theorising Council Socialism; References; Gustav Landauer and the Revolutionary Principle of Non-violent Non-cooperation; Introduction; Historical Context of the Council Revolution: Kurt Eisner and Gustav Landauer; Kurt Eisner and Gustav Landauer on the Councils' Revolution; Epilogue