THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: The Second International in Its Prime 

1. The Foundation of the Second International: Paris 1889 ........

2.  The  Genera!  Strike  Against  War  —  Celebration  of  May  Day: Brussels 1891 

3. Against Tsarism; May Day and Tactical Questions: Zurich 1893  ...

4. Exclusion of Anarchists; the Agrarian and Colonial Questions:London 1896 .

5. The Struggle Against Millerandism; the Pliable Kautsky:Paris 1900...

6. The Fight Against Revisionism: Amsterdam 1904 ....

CHAPTER II: Opportunist Degeneration

1. The Turning Point; the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the  Debates on the Mass Strike in the German Party: 1904—1907
2. Right Majority — Left Resolutions; Stuttgart 1907

3. Nationalism in the Trade Union Question; Opportunism in the Co-operative Question: Copenhagen 1910 .

4. The Discussion on Imperialism and the Oath of Basle:1911—1913 

CHAPTER III: The Collapse of the Second International and the Rise of the Third International 

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1.  The  Collapse  of  the  International  on  the  Outbreak  of  the  War; the Capitulation of the Centre; the Roots of Social-Imperialism...

2. The Bolsheviks Raise the Standard of the Third International; Zimmerwald and the Zimmerwald Left: 1914—1916 

3.  The  Russian  February  Revolution  and  the  Stockholm   Conference: 1917 

4. The October Revolution, the Beginning of Proletarian World Revolution; 1917—1918 

CHAPTER IV: Galvanising the Corpse of the Second International;  Development of the Communist International .

1. The Reconciliation Feast of the Social-Patriots at Berne and the Foundation of the Communist International in Moscow: 1919 

2. Geneva — Moscow — Vienna: 1920—1921

3. The Fight for the Proletarian United Front.

CHAPTER V: The International of Capitalist Reaction and the International of Proletarian World Revolution

1. The Reconciliation Feast of the Reformists in Hamburg: 1923 

2. Proletarian Defeats and the Relative Stabilisation of Capitalism; the Fifth World Congress of the Comintern and the Marseilles Congress of the Social-Patriotic International: 1923—1925

3. Capitalist Rationalisation and the Advance of the New

Revolutionary Wave; the Brussels Congress: 1926—1928 .

4. From Social-Imperialism to Social-Fascism — the Road of the Second International; Forward to the World Union of Soviet Republics, Forward to World Communism — the Road of the Third International 

INDEX OF NAMES ...