The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde: Between Reform and Revolution

Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
	1 Of Positivism and Peasants
	In Academic Circles
	Collectivism
	The Agrarian Crisis
	2 Parler Belge: The General Strike for Universal Manhood Suffrage
	1893: The Bulwark Begins to Crumble
	The First Defeat: 1902
	1913: Nous la préparons formidable et irresistible
	The Paradoxes of the Center
	3 Defending the Indigenous Peoples of the Congo: Socialism and Colonialism
	Leopold’s Empire and Its Critics
	Annexation
	The Belgian Congo
	4 Socialist Comrades: The Second International
	The Formative Years, 1889-1899
	Ministerialist!!
	The International Socialist Bureau
	Militarism
	5 The King’s Minister and the International: A Socialist Generation at War
	An Unaccustomed Responsibility: Minister at War
	The International
	Stockholm, Patriotism, and Peace
	6 The Russian Revolution Observed
	The Russian Jacobins, 1917
	Lenin and the THals
	The Russian Revolution Revisited: Stalinism
	7 The Revolution from Within: Governmental Participation
	Reform from Wfehfai
	“The Struggle against Reaction:9928 Constructive Opposition
	Keeping the Ship Afloat: 1925 to 1927
	An Unsure Opposition
	8 Internationalism: A Dream Not Revived
	The Labour and Socialist International
	The Diplomat between the Wars
	International Socialism and Fascism
	“On the Other Shore”
	9 The Insider as Outsider: Socialist Nationalism and the Spanish Civil War
	The Party of the Working Class and the Plan
	Back on the Inside
	The Nonintervention Pact
	The Incorrigible Outsider
	Conclusion
	Chronology
	Select Bibliography
Index