The Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization in the Twentieth Century

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THE MYTH OF THE NATION AND THE VISION OF REVOLUTION PREFACE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE CHILIASTIC PERIOD OF MARX AND ENGELS EUROPE IS PREGNANT WITH REVOLUTION THE REVOLUTION ONE AND INDIVISIBLE POLEN SCHWÄRMEREI RIGHT AND FORCE IN GLOBAL REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY THE INCOMPLETE THEORY CONCLUSIONS TWO CASTS OF MIND—ROSA LUXEMBURG AND EDUARD BERNSTEIN REVOLUTIONARY ORTHODOXY AND REFORMIST HERESY THE PORTRAIT OF AN INTERNATIONALIST REVOLUTIONARY AS A YOUNG WOMAN A POLARISED NATION—THE SECOND REICH THE LESSONS OF 1905 IN RUSSIA THE WORLD REVOLUTION ONE AND INDIVISIBLE — IN THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM NATIONALIST SEPARATISM OR REVOLUTIONARY CLASS INTERNATIONALISM IN POLISH SOCIALISM THE BURDEN OF IRRATIONAL HISTORY VERSUS MODERNISATION “A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AND DEATH” DEMOCRACY ERODED BY NATIONALISM THE FAILURE OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM A SOCIALIST THEORY OF NATIONALITY THE ALIEN FERMENTING INGREDIENT AND THE MOUNTAINOUS SHADOW THE PIONEER AND THE USURPER THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE IN MODERN SOCIETY “THE SOCIAL QUESTION IS THE JEWISH QUESTION“— “JEWISH CAPITALISM“ AND “JEWISH MARXISM“ AS LEVERS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM THE ROAD TO AUSCHWITZ—RACISM THE ENCOUNTER WITH REVOLUTION THE BIRTH OF A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY— BELINSKY AND HERZEN LOOSENING THE SPIRITUAL ARCANA IMPERII —CHERNYSHEVSKY AND DOBROLYUBOV A RUSSIAN VERSION OF TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY — TKACHEV WHEN “CONSISTENCY REACHES THE POINT OF MONSTROSITY“ —NECHAEV AND BAKUNIN WAR AND REVOLUTION THE DILEMMAS OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1918 HITLER IN THE WINGS CONCLUSIONS NOTES INDEX