Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934: Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation around the World

Volume Preface
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Search for Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation
	Phases of Research on Revolution—Some Historiographical Contextualization
	Three Revolutionary Decades at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, 1905–1934: Common Themes and Threads
Part I Revolutions Around the World
2 Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution 1897–1921
	With the Workers
	Losing the Workers
	Leading the Peasantry
3 Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911
	The Intellectual Premises: Reframing China’s Place in Global Time and Space
	Scripting and Enacting a National Revolution for China
	Conclusions: The Xinhai Revolution as a Cultural Transition
4 Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East
	Introduction
	Prologue to Revolutions: Revolt Against Empire in the Frontiers
	War and Revolution at the Frontiers of Empires, 1905–1939
		Constitutional Revolutions and Frontier Effects, 1905–1911
		Revolutionary Frontiers of Total War, 1912–1916
		Revolts and Revolutions at the Final Frontier, 1917–1939
	In Lieu of a Conclusion: Continuities at the Frontiers of Revolution and Empire
5 Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America from 1848 to 1917
	Introduction
	Divided Histories Between Anarchists and Indians
	Anarchist Colonization in Latin America
		The Commune Topolobambo in Mexico
	Entangled Revolutionary Experiences: Anarchists and Indians in the Mexican Revolution
	Land and Freedom
		The Commune of Morelos: Emiliano Zapata and the Magonistas
	Conclusion: Agrarian Social Thought and Communalist Agrarianism
Part II Revolutions, Revolutionaries, and Counter Mobilisation in Europe
6 Global Versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution’
	Introduction
	Global Revolutionaries: Italian Migrants as Ethnic and Political Brokers Around the Atlantic
	From the Global Setting to the National: A Tangle of Action and Mutual Support
	Domestic Issues and Competing Visions of Social Change Within an Evolving Political Context
		Reformism vs Syndicalism
		‘Societas Christiana’ vs ‘Revolution’
		War and Revolution
	Class, Nation and Revolution in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Turbulent Biennio Rosso
		Socialist Revolution
		National Revolution
		The Fascist ‘Revolution’
	Conclusion
7 The German Revolution of 1918–1920
	Introduction: Historiography of the German Labour Movement and of the German Revolution
	Revolutionary Traditions in the German Labour Movement Before 1918?
	First World War: Social Democracy, Social Movements, Russian Revolution
	Revolution 1918–1920: Arenas, Patterns of Action and Perceptions
	The Aftermath of the Revolution
	Conclusion
8 The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-Labour Mobilisation in Europe After the Russian Revolution of 1905
	Introduction
	The Revolution of the Twentieth Century
	Patterns of Counter-Revolutionary Mobilisation Before 1917
	Conclusion
9 For People’s Power: The Known and Unknown Revolutions in Finland (1899–1932)
	War and Revolution
	Quiet Before the Storm
	A Failed Revolution
	Russian Comrades
	The Question of Power
	Class Struggle
	Who Made the Class?
	Equal Rights
	Collapse of Power
	The Aftermath
	An Explanation
10 The Last Echo of 1917? The Asturian October Between Revolution and Antifascism
	Spain and Revolution, 1917–1934
	The Asturian October
	Antifascism
	Between Revolution and Antifascism
Part III Revolutionaries Between Repression and Reform
11 Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform
	Australia at the Forefront of Global Advance
	The Syndicalist Challenge
	War, Conscription, Upsurge, Democracy
	An Australian Revolution? A Project and Its Assessment
12 The United States in an Era of Global Revolution
	Revolution?—The US Case
	Corporate Hegemony, Informal Empire, and the Rise of Global Capitalism
	Ameliorative Reform
	Labor’s Revolt, 1909–1922
	Socialist Advance—In the Municipalities
	Wartime Labor Mobilization and Postwar Upheaval
	Wartime State Repression and Local Class Reckonings
	A ‘Cultural’ Revolution and the Foundations of New Deal Social Democracy
13 South African Revolutionaries: 1915–1922
	Introduction
	Workers of the World
	A Republic of Industrial Workers?
	Endpoints and Beginnings
Index