Cataclysm 1914: The First World War And The Making Of Modern World Politics

Alexander Anievas Ph.D. (2011), University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the "Thirty Years Crisis", 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press, 2014).

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsAlexander Anievas – The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics1PART I. 'KLADDERADATSCH!: CAPITALISM, EMPIRE, AND IMPERIALISM IN THE MAKING AND AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I1. Geoff Eley – Germany, the Fischer Controversy, and the Context of War: Rethinking German Imperialism, 1880–191412. Shelley Baranowski – War, Defeat, and the Urgency of Lebensraum: German Imperialism from the Second Empire to the Third Reich3. Adam Tooze – Capitalist Peace or Capitalist War? The July Crisis Revisited4. Alexander Anievas – Marxist Theory and the Origins of the First World5. Wendy Matsumura – The Expansion of the Japanese Empire and the Rise of the Global Agrarian Question after the First World War6. Sandra Halperin – War and Social Revolution: World War I and the 'Great Transformation'PART II: RECONFIGURATIONS: REVOLUTION AND CULTURE AFTER 19147. Enzo Traverso – European Intellectuals and the First World War: Trauma and New Cleavages8. Esther Leslie – Art after War: Experience, Poverty and the Crystal Utopia9. Alberto Toscano – ‘America’s Belgium’: W.E.B. Du Bois on Race, Class, and the Origins of World War I10. Domenico Losurdo – World War I, the October Revolution and Marxism’s Reception in the West and East11. Peter Thomas – Uneven Developments, Combined: The First World War and Marxist Theories of Revolution12. Neil Davidson – The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe13. Lars T. Lih – ‘The New Era of War and Revolution’: Lenin, Kautsky, Hegel and the Outbreak of World War IBibliographyIndex

Praise for Anievas’ previous work:How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism"A fascinating tour de force that will surely be debated in the fields of history, sociology, Marxism and International Relations for years to come"—Justin Rosenberg, Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex "This rigorously argued book presents a compelling challenge to standard narratives of capitalist modernity. The authors combine theoretical sophistication and a wide-ranging account of extra-European histories to provide a superb - and provocative - alternative"—Gurminder K Bhambra, author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury) Marxism and World Politics"Easily the best introduction to the diversity and richness of contemporary Marxist theory in International Relations and an important resource for anyone seeking to make sense of the relations between capitalism and geopolitics today."—Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, UK