Eduard Bernstein on the German Revolution

Marius S. Ostrowski is Examination Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK. He has written Eduard Bernstein on Social Democracy and International Politics: Essays and Other Writings (2018) and Left Unity: Manifesto for a Progressive Alliance (2019).

• 1. Introduction (by Marius S. Ostrowski).- Part I The German Revolution: History of the Emergence and First Working Period of the German Republic.- 2. Foreword.- 3. Prologue.- 4. The Reich leadership before the Revolution.- 5. The dawning of the Revolution.- 6. Government and Social Democracy from the start of October to 9 November 1918.- 7. 9 November 1918 in Berlin.- 8. The initial form of the German Republic.- 9. The Revolution in the individual states.- 10. Struggles of socialists against socialists.- 11. The first Congress of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils in Germany.- 12. The sailors’ uprising in Berlin, Christmas 1918.- 13. The Independent Social Democrats’ departure from the Rat der Volksbeauftragten.- 14. The communist uprising in Berlin, January 1919.- 15. The murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.- 16. The general situation in the first months of the Republic.- 17. The Nationalversammlung elections, conclusion of the first stage of the Revolution.- Part II How a Revolution Perished.- 18. Foreword.- 19. Why the Second French Republic perished.- 20. A users’ guide for the present.- Part III Selected articles.- 21. Eduard Bernstein for Unity.- 22. Bernstein’s Return to the Party.- 23. The Independents’ Attempt at Mediation.- 24. On the Question of Unity.- 25. Auf Wiedersehen! A Parting Word to Independent Social Democracy.- 26. Lassalle and Bolshevism.- 27. The Timescale of the Revolution.- 28. An Easter of Hope.- 29. Eduard Bernstein against the USPD.- 30. The Bankruptcy of Bolshevism.- 31. The Communists.- 32. The Election Campaign.- 33. The Decision.- 34. 20 February and the Revolution.- 35. Four Years On.