History of the International 1864-1914 / by Julius Braunthal; translated by Henry Collins and Kenneth Mitchell

Includes appendix, bibliography and index.

PART ONE: THE FORERUNNERS: The birth of the idea -- Thomas Paine, internationalist -- The corresponding society -- The conspiracy of the equals -- The counter-revolutionary international --The communist league -- The society of fraternal democrats -- The international association -- PART TWO: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL: The founding of the historic international -- The principles and statutes of the first international -- The strength of the international - legend and reality -- Ideological and political problems of international -- The international in the Franco-German war and in the Paris commune -- The crusade against the international -- The end of the first international -- PART THREE: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL: Socialism in the 1890s -- Problems of the second international -- Evolutionary and Revolutionary socialism -- The debate in the international on the general strike -- The colonial question in the international -- The international and the war