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An examination of the constants and variables of the sense of injustice displayed by ordinary people in various societies places special focus on the German working class between 1848 and 1920
List of contents
List of Tables Preface PART ONE: THE SENSE OF INJUSTICE: SOME CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES Recurring Elements in Moral Codes The Moral Authority of Suffering and Injustice The Rejection of Suffering and Oppression PART TWO: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: GERMAN WORKERS 1848-1920 Prologue German Workers in the Revolution of 1848 Social and Cultural Trends Before 1914 Militance and Apathy in the Ruhr Before 1914 The Reformist Revolution 1918-1920 The Radical Trust PART THREE: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES The German and Russian Revolutions: Some Comparisons The Suppression of Historical Alternatives: Germany 1918-1920 Repressive Aspects of Moral Outrage: The Nazi Example Moral Relativism Inevitability and the Sense of Injustice Epilogue: Reciprocity as Fact, Ideology, and Ideal References Cited Index
About the author
BARRINGTON MOORE, JR is a Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University and Senior Research Fellow for the University's Russian Centre. He was educated at Williams College, where he took a degree in Greek and Latin, and at Yale University where he gained a PhD in sociology. His book
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in political science and the MacIver Award in sociology. He is also the author of
Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power, Terror and Progress: USSR, Political Power and Social Theory and, with Robert P. Wolff and Herbert Marcuse,
A Critique of Pure Tolerance. His most recent book,
Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them, was given the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.
