The Red years : European socialism versus bolshevism, 1919-1921 / by Albert S Lindemann.

Contents: Introduction -- I. Before the Biennio Rosso: The deeper roots of the socialist-communist conflict -- The SPD, SFIO, and PSI in the generation before the war -- Trends of the prewar socialist parties -- Prewar socialism in Russia -- The trauma of war -- Lenin and the problem of war -- War's end and the radicalization of western socialist parties -- II. The Russian "Spark" -- Revolution in Russia -- The spread of revolution to Germany -- The failures of revolutionary socialists in Germany -- The Bern conference -- The first congress of the communist international -- Leninism and the first congress of the Comintern -- The PSI and the Comintern -- Comintern policy in 1919 etc.