1st Edition

Revolutionary Exiles The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune

By Woodford McClellan Copyright 1979

    This book, first published in 1979, examines the little-studied forerunners of the Russian revolutionary movement - the Russian section of the First International. It looks at the social democratic and Marxist Russians in the International, as well as examining the complex relations between the terrorist Sergei Nechaev and Marx's friends, as well as tracing the activities of Michael Bakunin. It also analyses, for the first time in English, the activities of the Russian revolutionaries in the Paris Commune. It integrates early Russian social democracy into the larger context of European socialist and working-class movements.

    Chapter 1 Chapter One The Origins of Russian Social Democracy; Chapter 2 Chapter Two The New Russian Revolutionism; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE The Russians and the International in 1869; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR Sergio Furioso: Nechaev in 1869–70; Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE The Russian Section of the International; Chapter 6 CHAPTER SIX Shifting Revolutionary Currents; Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN The Slav Emigrés and the Crisis of 1870; Chapter 8 CHAPTER EIGHT The Slavs and the Paris Commune; Chapter 9 CHAPTER NINE Après Commune; Chapter 10 CHAPTER TEN The End of the First International; Chapter 11 CHAPTER ELEVEN Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index;

    Biography

    Woodford McClellan (University of Virginia)