Austrian Revolution

Otto Bauer (5 September 1881 4-July 1938) was the leading figure of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers Party. An early inspiration for the New Left and Eurocommunist movements in later decades, his theories of imperialism and the national question, as well as his practical work building a mass organization, made him a key figure in the Second International and then in attempts at re-integrating the social democratic and communist wings of the labor movement.Walter Baier, an economist in Vienna, was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 has been Coordinator of the network transform!Europe, a network of 36 think tanks and educational organizations from 22 European countries, which is recognized as the associated political foundation of the Party of the European Left (EL).

• First Section: War and RevolutionThe Southern Slavs and the WarThe Czechs and the EmpireThe Poles and the Central PowersGerman Austria in the WarSecond Section: The UpheavalThe Formation of the “Nation-States”The Disintegration of the EmpireThe German-Austrian RepublicNational and Social RevolutionThird Section: The Predominance of the Working ClassRevolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary ForcesBetween Imperialism and BolshevismThe Revolution in the FactoriesThe State and the Working ClassFourth Section: The Period of Equilibrium Between Class ForcesEconomic Upheaval and Social RegroupingThe Struggle for Republican InstitutionsThe Battle Against the Counter-RevolutionThe People’s RepublicFifth Section: The Restoration of the BourgeoisieThe Monetary CatastropheThe Geneva TreatyThe Outcome of the Revolution and the Tasks of Social DemocracIndex