APOSTLES OF REVOLUTION

by

MAX NOMAD

1939

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Veil of Myths -- The Two Principles -- The Alternative

THE MARTYR
Auguste Blanqui, the Glorious Prisoner

Anti-Bourbon Conspirators -- The Revolution of 1830 and After -- Between Two Philosophies -- Going Underground -- The Uprising of May 12, 1839 -- In the Dungeon of Mont Saint-Michel -- Eighteen Forty-Eight -- The Tower of Babel -- Birth and Death Pangs of a Republic -- "Parisian Dictatorship" -- The Taschereau Document -- Confusion -- The Red Herring of Poland -- The Aftermath -- Civil War in Prison -- Alone against the World -- The "Toast" -- And Now Mazzini -- A New Generation -- The Gay Prison -- The "Dark Prince of Democracy" -- Years of Freedom -- Fighting Competition -- Instructions for an Uprising -- 1870 -- The Fatherland in Danger -- A Few Hours of Power -- Before the Great Storm -- The Commune of 1871 -- Eternity through the Stars -- The Last Trial -- Freedom -- Apotheosis -- Epilogue

THE TEACHER
Karl Marx, Who Sowed Dragon's Teeth

"Changing the World" -- Expatriate -- A Maze of Theories -- The Jews and the Philosophers -- Friends -- The New Philosophy -- The Communist League -- The Communist Manifesto -- The "Mad Year" -- Internationalism in Action -- Dreams of Exiles -- World Revolution -- Dream's End -- After the Break -- "The Eighteenth Brumaire" -- Crisis and War -- The Great Rival -- The First International -- The Magnum Opus -- The Franco-Prussian War -- The Seventy-One Days -- The Russian Intruder -- After the Victory -- The Great Slogan -- The "Two Phases" -- Pie in the Sky -- The Last Years

THE HERETIC
Michael Bakunin, "Apostle of Pan-Destruction"

The First Steps -- Meeting the Teachers -- The Great Slander -- From Paris to Poland -- The Austrian Slavs -- The Agony of a Revolution -- Anarchist Dictatorship -- The Great Conspiracy -- The Dresden Uprising -- The Confession -- Banishment and Flight -- The London Exile -- The Polish Uprising of 1863 -- Farewell to Nationalism -- Revolutionary Anarchism in the Making -- Saint Michael and Saint Ignatius -- The League for Peace and Liberty -- Boring from Within and from Without -- Birth Pangs of a Philosophy -- Theory and Practice -- The Game of Two Truths -- The Lyons Uprising of 1870 -- The Struggle against Marx -- Intuition vs. Scholarship -- The Expulsion and After -- Ruse and Reality -- Disgrace -- Despair -- The Last Year -- The Offspring

THE FANATIC
Sergei Nechayev, "The Possessed"

The "Servant Girl's Son" -- Anarchist or Blanquist? -- The "Committee of Action" -- The Making of a Hero -- The Tiger Cub and the Patriarch -- Nechayev or Bakunin? -- The Catechism of the Revolutionist -- Preparing for the "Day" -- The Ivanov Tragedy -- Abroad Again -- Nechayev's "Principles" -- The Break with Bakunin -- Steering His Own Cruiser -- The Great Trial and After -- "Forced Labor in the Mines" -- The Dungeon -- Semper Idem -- "Lasciate Ogni Speranza . . ." -- Epilogue

THE PREACHER
Johann Most, Terrorist of the Word

The Convert -- In the Austrian Capital -- "High Treason" -- Home Again -- Before the Storm -- The Red Scare -- Expatriate -- Civil War -- Transition -- Anarchist? -- The New Gospel -- Off to the Land of the Free -- Looking Homeward -- The Rival -- Revolutionary War Science -- The Chicago Tragedy -- A New Religion -- "I" -- The Blot -- Discovering the Labor Movement -- In Prison Again -- The Last Years

THE WARRIOR
Nestor Makhno, the Bandit Who Saved Moscow

The Revolution of 1917 -- The "Little Father" -- The White Peril -- The "Jew-Killer" -- Black and Red -- The Grigoriev Affair -- Leon Trotsky's Crusade -- Outlawed -- The Great Battle -- The "Bandit Army" -- The Great Experiment -- The Aftermath -- The Struggle for the Peasant -- Between Trotsky and Wrangel -- The Last Fight -- Exile and Death

THE HIERARCH
Joseph Stalin, the Great Disciple

The First Steps -- Meeting the Prophet -- The "Question of Honor" -- Between Oil and Snow -- The "Wonderful Georgian" -- The Great Beginning -- Enter Lenin -- The Bolsheviks in Power -- Russia's Civil War and Stalin's -- After the Victory - "Proletarian Democracy" -- The Dying Lion and the Living Tiger -- The Fight for the Mantle -- The Passing of the Triumvirate -- The Great Onslaught -- "Thermidor" -- Permanent Revolution or Colonial War? -- Gorky's Angel and Voltaire's Rats -- One Little Detail -- Turning against the Right -- Red Caesar -- Chain-Gang Socialism -- The Peasant Worm Turns -- Crime and Punishment -- The Menshevik Trial -- The New Freedom -- Sources of Inspiration -- The Great Reconciliation -- The Lower Nobility -- The New Gospel -- The New Elite and the Sage of Shanghai -- Reversion to Type -- "No Such Intentions" -- The Stalin Constitution -- The "Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans" -- "Non-Party Bolsheviks" -- The Slaughter of the Nobles -- Coup d'Etat on the Installment Plan

Notes

Bibliography

Index