Eduard Bernstein on the German Revolution: Selected Historical Writings

1. Introduction (by Marius S. Ostrowski)
Part I The German Revolution: History of the Emergence and First Working Period of the German Republic
2. Foreword
3. Prologue
4. The Reich leadership before the Revolution
5. The dawning of the Revolution
6. Government and Social Democracy from the start of October to 9 November 1918
7. 9 November 1918 in Berlin
8. The initial form of the German Republic
9. The Revolution in the individual states
10. Struggles of socialists against socialists
11. The first Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils in Germany
12. The sailors' uprising in Berlin, Christmas 1918
13. The Independent Social Democrats' departure from the Rat der Volksbeauftragten
14. The communist uprising in Berlin, January 1919
15. The murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
16. The general situation in the first months of the Republic
17. The Nationalversammlung elections, conclusion of the first stage of the Revolution
Part II How a Revolution Perished
18. Foreword
19. Why the Second French Republic perished
20. A users' guide for the present
Part III Selected articles
21. Eduard Bernstein for Unity
22. Bernstein's Return to the Party
23. The Independents' Attempt at Mediation
24. On the Question of Unity
25. Auf Wiedersehen! A Parting Word to Independent Social Democracy
26. Lassalle and Bolshevism
27. The Timescale of the Revolution
28. An Easter of Hope
29. Eduard Bernstein against the USPD
30. The Bankruptcy of Bolshevism
31. The Communists
32. The Election Campaign
33. The Decision
34. 20 February and the Revolution
35. Four Years On