Download or read book Revolutionary Social Democracy written by Eric Blanc and published by Historical Materialism Book. This book was released on 2021 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study rediscovers the socialists of Tsarist Russia?s imperial borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics, the Russian Revolution, and Second International socialism. Based on archival research in eight languages, 'Revolutionary Social Democracy' is the first comparative account of the numerous socialist parties that fought for democracy and workers? power across the entire span of the Russian Empire, from the factories of Warsaw, to the oil fields of Baku, to the autonomous parliament of Finland. By demonstrating that the Russian Revolution was far less Russian than commonly assumed, Eric Blanc challenges long-held assumptions of historians, sociologists, and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change under autocratic and democratic conditions.