Anievas A. (ed.) Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 471 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-26267-6; 978-90-04-26268-3 — (Historical Materialism, Volume 89)Cataclysm 1914 brings together leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection seeks to visualise the conflict and all its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and ascendency of US hegemony) as a defining moment in 20th century world politics, rupturing and reconstituting the 'modern' epoch in its many instantiations. Appeals to general readers and those focused on Marxian theory and strategy and leftist histories of the war.The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics. Alexander AnievasKladderadatsch! Capitalism, Empire, and Imperialism in the Making and Aftermath of World War IGermany, the Fischer Controversy, and the Context of War: Rethinking German Imperialism, 1880–1914. Geoff Eley
War, Defeat, and the Urgency of Lebensraum: German Imperialism from the Second Empire to the Third Reich. Shelley Baranowski
Capitalist Peace or Capitalist War? The July Crisis Revisited. Adam Tooze
Marxist Theory and the Origins of the First World War. Alexander Anievas
The Expansion of the Japanese Empire and the Rise of the Global Agrarian Question after the First World War. Wendy Matsumura
War and Social Revolution: World War I and the ‘Great Transformation.' Sandra HalperinReconfigurations: Revolution and Culture after 1914European Intellectuals and the First World War: Trauma and New Cleavages. Enzo Traverso
Art after War: Experience, Poverty and the Crystal Utopia. Esther Leslie
‘America’s Belgium’: W.E.B. Du Bois on Race, Class, and the Origins of World War I. Alberto Toscano
World War I, the October Revolution and Marxism’s Reception in the West and East. Domenico Losurdo
Uneven Developments, Combined: The First World War and Marxist Theories of Revolution. Peter D. Thomas
The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe. Neil Davidson
‘The New Era of War and Revolution’: Lenin, Kautsky, Hegel and the Outbreak of World War I. Lars T. Lih