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Workers and Nationalism - Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 (Hardcover)
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Workers and Nationalism - Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 (Hardcover)
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Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually
thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and
women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's
most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing.
Workers and Nationalism explains this apparent paradox by looking
at the history of the Social Democratic workers' movement in
Habsburg Austria, which was built on the mobilization of German and
Czech workers in the Empire's rapidly industrializing regions of
Bohemia, Moravia, and Lower Austria. Jakub Benes takes the history
of socialism out of the realm of theoretical and parliamentary
debates and into the streets, city squares, pubs, and clubs of a
vibrant but precarious multi-ethnic society. He reveals how
ordinary workers became increasingly nationalist as they came to
believe that they were the genuine representatives of their ethnic
national communities. Their successful campaign to democratize
parliamentary elections in 1905-1907 accelerated such thinking
rapidly. It also split Social Democracy apart by 1911. Then, during
the First World War, many Czech and German workers embraced
revolutionary radicalism, alienating them from the regime-friendly
socialist leadership. Benes's study is the first to show the
profound connection between major political events and the rich
culture of the Austrian workers' movement, revealing this culture's
utopian and quasi-religious tendencies as well as its left populist
nationalism. Based on research in eight archives and numerous
libraries in Prague, Vienna, and Brno, Workers and Nationalism
fundamentally rethinks the relationship between socialism,
nationalism, and democracy in modern Europe.
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