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The fourth volume in a series of texts on the topic of revolutionary movements, this book begins with the Russian revolution of 1905. It then moves on to discuss later revolutions, such as the crisis in international socialism at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914; the Bolshevik "Red October" revolution in 1917, and the crucial German revolution of 1918-19. Later chapters chronicle the Bavarian and Hungarian Soviet Republics of 1919, the "Napp Flutach" and general strike of 1920; and the failure of the German communists to take power in 1923, thus paving the way for Hitler's takeover a decade later. The emergence of the Communist International is traced, as is the rising of the Viennese socialist workers in February 1934, and the Spanish Revolution and Civil War of 1936-39. The volume concludes with an interpretive discussion of the revolutionary era.