Jean-Numa Ducange, Ph.D. (2009), Rouen-Normandie University (France), is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at that University, co-director of Actuel Marx (PUF) and has published several articles and books on the History of the Left in France, Germany and Austria, including Jules Guesde. L'anti-Jaurès? (Armand Colin, 2017) and as co-editor Marx, une passion française (La Découverte, 2018).

• Table of Contents Preface to the English Edition Abbreviations Introduction Preamble: Social Democracy and the French Revolution before 1889 Part 1 The Development, Crisis and Renewal of the Reference to the French Revolution and Its History (1889-1905)1 1889: the Social-Democrats' Centenary 2 The &'Long Centenary', 1890-5 3 Revising Orthodoxy, Re-exploring History 4 The Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Analogies with 1789 Part 2 The Entrenchment of a Reference (1906-17)The New Conditions of Social-Democratic Production 5 New Works on the French Revolution 6 The Social-Democratic Educational Apparatus from 1906 to 1914 7 A Powerful Machine 8 The Reference to 1789: Powerful yet Ambiguous Part 3 Reinterpretations and New Approaches, 1917-34The Social Democracies' New Course 9 The Power of Analogies, in the Face of New Revolutions: 1917-23 10 Continuities and New Approaches in the Mid-1920s 11 New Readings of the French Revolution 12 Analogies and Controversies: the French Revolution, 1927-34 Conclusion References Index

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