Bauer, Otto

Born in Vienna in a family of Jewish immigrants from Bohemia, owners of the manufactory. He graduated from the public school and gymnasium in Vienna, where he studied at the university with a degree in law. The subject of his study at the University of Vienna was economic and political laws. In 1906, he defended his dissertation on jurisprudence.

In 1907, became secretary of the club of deputies of the Social Democratic Party in the Reichstag. In the same year, he began to work in the editorial office of the newspaper Borba, and Rabochaya gazeta.

During the First World War he was drafted into the army and sent to the Eastern Front. He participated in the rank of lieutenant in the battles in Galicia, was captured in November 1914, spent three years in Russia and returned to Austria in September 1917 .

After the death of Victor Adler in 1918, became chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.

From November 21, 1918 to July 26, 1919, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the coalition government of the Social Democrats and the Christian Social Party .

In 1921 - one of the organizers of the so-called. "Two-half" or "Vienna" international . After his association with the II (Socialist) International in 1923, he was a member of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Socialist International .

As editor of political workers' newspapers, Otto Bauer advocated social democracy. For such an approach to the organization of society, expressed in an attempt to "revolution with the ballot", was criticized by Leon Trotsky. He saw the main potential of political transformations in progressive economic changes and the union of Soviet and social democracies, which was supposed to ensure the construction of "Integral Socialism".

Nine volumes of his works have been published, and all of them are devoted to the problems of social justice in society. The most significant works are: Zwischen zwei Weltkriegen ?, 1936. (Between the two wars?) And Die illegale Partei, 1939. (Illegal party).

Depicted on the 1981 Austrian postage stamp.

• Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie ("The National Question and Social Democracy"). - Wien, 1908. (German)
• Die Sozialisierungsaktion im ersten Jahre der Republik. - Wien, 1919.
• Der Weg zum Sozialismus. - Berlin, 1919.
• Bolschewismus oder Sozialdemokratie? - Wien, 1920.
  • Bolshevism or social democracy? (excerpt from the book) // Russian newspaper
• Die österreichische Revolution ("Austrian Revolution"). - Wien, 1923. (German)
• Das Weltbild des Kapitalismus (The Worldview of Capitalism). - Wien, 1924. (German)
• Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie. - Wien, 1924.
• Der Kampf um Wald und Weide. - Wien, 1925.
• Sozialdemokratische Agrarpolitik. - Wien, 1926.
• Sozialdemokratie, Religion und Kirche. - Wien 1927.
• Kapitalismus und Sozialismus nach dem Weltkrieg. - Berlin, 1931.
• Der Aufstand der österreichischen Arbeiter. Seine Ursachen und seine Wirkungen. - Prag, 1934. (German)
• Zwischen den Weltkriegen? Die Krise der Weltwirtschaft, der Demokratie und des Sozialismus. - Prag, 1936.
• Der Faschismus. - 1936.
• Die illegale Partei. - Paris, 1939. (posthumous ed.) (German)

In Russian:

• Bauer O. National Question and Social Democracy / C foreword. H. Zhitlovsky; Per. with him. M.S. Panin. St. Petersburg: Serp., 1909. - LVI, 600, [2] p.
  • National Question and Social Democracy. - M.: Lenand , 2015 .-- 598 p.
• Bauer O. Austrian Revolution of 1918. Per. with him. A. and G. Khavinykh. M. — L., State. ed., 1925. XIV + 294 p. 6,000 copies
• Bauer O. History of the Austrian Revolution. Per. with him. B. Frenkel and S. Fertik. [Kharkov], "The Proletariat," 1925. XXXII + 464 p. 7,000 copies
• Bauer O. Capital Accumulation // Luxembourg R. Capital Accumulation: Vol. I and II . - 5th ed. - M. - L .: Sotsekgiz, 1934 .-- S. 114-127. - XLIV, 463 p.

• Johnston W.M. Austrian Renaissance. The intellectual and social history of Austria-Hungary. 1848-1938 / per. from English - M.: Moscow School of Political Studies, 2004. - S. 150−155. - ISBN 5-93895-065-1 .

• Otto bauer und der austromarxismus
• The work of Otto Bauer . (German) - (Retrieved May 22, 2010)