Working class politics in the German Revolution : Richard Müller, the revolutionary shop stewards and the origins of the council movement

Content: Sisyphus of the Revolution: A Preface
 Author's Preface
 List of Illustrations
 List of Abbreviations
 Chapter 1 Introduction: A Forgotten Revolutionary
 The Politics of Historical Interpretation
 The Makers of the German Revolution
 Chapter 2 Background, Youth, and Early Union Activities: 1880-1913
 From Farm to Factory
 Müller's Private Life
 Fighting Taylorism with its Own Weapons
 Bureaucracy in the Service of Agitation
 Chapter 3 Opposition to the Burgfrieden: 1914-18
 'The Great Betrayal'
 From Discipline to Opposition
 Early Ambiguities and their Price. Chapter 4 The Revolutionary Shop Stewards and Political Mass Strikes: 1916-18The Stewards' First Political Strike: Protesting Liebknecht's Arrest
 Repression and the New Opposition
 Müller's Arrest and the April Strike
 Marking Time under Repression
 Preparing for the January Strike: Rising Discontent and the Bolshevik Example
 The January 1918 Strike: Council Power Emerges
 The Politics of the Action Committee and the End of the January Strike
 Barth and Däumig Lead in Müller's Absence
 Müller's Return
 Chapter 5 The German Revolution in Berlin: 1918. The Stewards and the Spartacists: A Tale of Two StylesArming the Revolution
 Outbreak
 Council Power
 The State of the Revolution
 Chapter 6 Chairman of the Berlin Executive Council: 1918-19
 Conflict, Caution and Counter-revolution
 Loss of National Power
 Chapter 7 Richard Müller and the Council Movement: 1918-19
 The Council Movement in War and Revolution
 The First Council Congress and the Triumph of Parliamentarianism
 The Blocked Path to Socialism
 Berlin's January Uprising
 Political Murder, Demoralisation, and the End of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards
 Theorising Council Socialism. The March Strikes of 1919After the Tumult
 Chapter 8 From Council Movement to Works Councils: 1919-20
 Council Ideal and Works Council Reality
 Leading the Left Opposition in the DMV
 Defeat at Nuremberg, Compromise in Stuttgart
 The Works Councils Act, Armed Conflict and Party Split
 DMV Political Divisions and the Works Council Centre
 The First Works Council Congress 1920
 The State of the Revolution in 1920
 Chapter 9 From Council Socialism to Party Communism and Beyond: 1920-24
 The Leninist Model and the USPD Split
 The Communist Union Centre
 The Red International of Labour Unions. Crisis in the Communist Party and the March Action of 1921Post-March Crises and 'Made in Moscow' Resolution
 The Revelation Affair
 Müller, the Unwanted Communist
 Chapter 10 Richard Müller as Historian of the German Revolution: 1923-25
 Müller's Historiographical Approach
 Müller as Publisher
 Chapter 11 Footnotes and Suppression --
Richard Müller's Impact on Historiography
 The Millstones of Social Democracy and Marxism-Leninism
 Müller in East Germany
 Müller in West Germany
 Chapter 12 Break with Politics, Withdrawal into Private Life: 1925-43.