The Austrian Revolution

The definitive work on Eastern Europe’s revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna

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. Bauer’s 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 Bauer’s unique theorization of an “integral socialism” — an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy — is a vital part of the left’s 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.

• | Author: Otto Bauer, Walter Baier, Eric Canepa
• | Publisher: Haymarket Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781642591620
• | ISBN-10: 1642591629