Workers and nationalism Czech and German social democracy in Habsburg Austria 1890 1918 1st Edition by Jakub Beneš 0192506313 9780192506313

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ISBN-10 :  0192506313 

ISBN-13 :  9780192506313

Author:   Jakub S Beneš 

Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe’s most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. Workers and Nationalism explains this apparent paradox by looking at the history of the Social Democratic workers’ movement in Habsburg Austria, which was built on the mobilization of German and Czech workers in the Empire’s rapidly industrializing regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Lower Austria. Jakub Beneš takes the history of socialism out of the realm of theoretical and parliamentary debates and into the streets, city squares, pubs, and clubs of a vibrant but precarious multi-ethnic society. He reveals how ordinary workers became increasingly nationalist as they came to believe that they were the genuine representatives of their ethnic national communities. Their successful campaign to democratize parliamentary elections in 1905-1907 accelerated such thinking rapidly. It also split Social Democracy apart by 1911. Then, during the First World War, many Czech and German workers embraced revolutionary radicalism, alienating them from the regime-friendly socialist leadership. Beneš’s study is the first to show the profound connection between major political events and the rich culture of the Austrian workers’ movement, revealing this culture’s utopian and quasi-religious tendencies as well as its left populist nationalism. Based on research in eight archives and numerous libraries in Prague, Vienna, and Brno, Workers and Nationalism fundamentally rethinks the relationship between socialism, nationalism, and democracy in modern Europe.

Workers and nationalism: Czech and German social democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 1st Table of contents:

1. Narrating Socialism in Habsburg Austria
Building a Poetic Organization
The Path of Christ
2. Exclusion from the Nation
Social Exclusion in Space
Everyday Ethnicity and Workers’ Internationalism
Exclusion from the Ranks of the Staatsvolk
Exclusion from the Unified Národ
1897 and Beyond
3. Storms of November
Suffrage as Revolutionary Utopia
The Argument of the Streets
Seizing the Nation
Coda: May 1907
4. Socialist Hussites, Marxist Wagnerians
The Most National Party
Genuine Schillerfeste
Edifying Working-Class Nations
Returns to Lipany
Völkisch Visions and Rising Resentment
5. The Logics of Separatism
A Nation on the Advance
Working Apart
Learning Apart
The Vices of Large Nations
Class Ethos Remains
6. War and Revolution
War Performance and the Working Class
Weathering the Storm_ The Social Democratic Leadership
Socialist Workers Make Sense of the Cataclysm
Conclusion: Ideology and Utopia
Works Cited

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