Introduction The Foundation Metamorphoses Encounters: Lausanne and Brussels The High Tide Bakunin in the International War and Revolution London 1871 The "Latin" Rebellion The Northern Bastions The Fulfillment Bibliography Index
Chronicles the emergence and development of the International Working Men's Association, known historically as the First International. Katz offers an objective history of the group and its interesting personalities, surveying the First International in the context of the general history of the period 1846-1874--as well as in the context of the contemporary movements of worldwide liberation.
HENRYK KATZ was Honorary Research Fellow of the Coventry (England) Polytechnic, and a former instructor in the History and Politics Department at the University of Nottingham. He authored numerous books, articles, and journal reviews.
?This posthumous study by Katz, former International Secretary of
the Labour History Society, continues the tradition of fine Eastern
European scholarship on the history of socialism and the Left with
a spirited account of Karl Marx's First International. This
distinguished volume accomplishes a smooth merger of the labor
situation in the early 1860s with the need to end the isolation of
radical political theory. This detail adds a great deal to our
knowledge of the International's origins and functionaries with
clarity and economy. The chapter on Bakunin and the International
uses much from Arthur Lehning and Max Nettlau, as any good study
properly should. The confrontations between Marx and Bakunin, often
sensationalized in earlier works, are played out with a context of
the International's struggles to find an independent course between
French and German delegates during the difficult period just before
and after the Franco-Prussian War. In the International's last
years before its collapse in 1876, the growing fragmentation
between northern and southern European socialists becomes the
pathway of the final chapters. A fine book and a good guide to the
European manuscript collections dealing with this topic. Advanced
undergraduate to faculty.?-Choice
"This posthumous study by Katz, former International Secretary of
the Labour History Society, continues the tradition of fine Eastern
European scholarship on the history of socialism and the Left with
a spirited account of Karl Marx's First International. This
distinguished volume accomplishes a smooth merger of the labor
situation in the early 1860s with the need to end the isolation of
radical political theory. This detail adds a great deal to our
knowledge of the International's origins and functionaries with
clarity and economy. The chapter on Bakunin and the International
uses much from Arthur Lehning and Max Nettlau, as any good study
properly should. The confrontations between Marx and Bakunin, often
sensationalized in earlier works, are played out with a context of
the International's struggles to find an independent course between
French and German delegates during the difficult period just before
and after the Franco-Prussian War. In the International's last
years before its collapse in 1876, the growing fragmentation
between northern and southern European socialists becomes the
pathway of the final chapters. A fine book and a good guide to the
European manuscript collections dealing with this topic. Advanced
undergraduate to faculty."-Choice
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