The Austrian Revolution

This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauers magisterial work available in English for the first time in full charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers control, factory councils, and industrial democracy. The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauers unique theorization of an integral socialism an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy is a vital part of the lefts intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.