Revolution from 1789 to 1906 R. W. Postgate 1920 Radical Anarchy Socialist

Description: Revolution from 1789 to 1906: Documents Selected and Edited with notes and IntroductionsR.W. PostgatePublished by Grant Richards, 1920 The American Declaration of Independence July 4 1776 p4THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789179613Oath of the National Assembly June 20 1789 p26Resolution of the Cordeliers October 4 1789 p28Declaration of the Rights of Man signed October 5 1789 p30Decree Confiscating Church Lands November 2 1789 p32Speech on Emigrés February 28 1791 p35Election Placard of the Luxembourg April 1848 p204Decree on the Workshops Prepared for May 24 Issued June 21 1848210Joint Placard June 18 1848 p213THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION 18481849223Letter of Manin on Socialism January 14 1849 p230Programme of the Offenburg Conference Winter 1847 p249Minutes of the First Meeting of the Berlin Arbeiter Club April255Resolutions of the Revolutionary Assembly May 13 1849 p262 June 14 1791 p37Declaration of the Cordeliers Club June 22 1791 p38Declaration of Pillnitz August 27 1791 p39Address of the FortySeven Sections August 3 1792 p40Speech on Property September 21 1792 p41Speech on Property April 24 1793 p43Speech Moving the Suppression of the Commune May 18 1793 p46Jacobin Law on Communal Lands June 10 1793 P47Père Duchesne on Marats death July 15 1793 p48Decree on Feudal Rights July 17 1793 p50Père Duchesne on Business Men September 1 1793 p51Last Number of the Vieux Cordelier March 1794 p52Manifesto of the Equals May 1796 p54Analysis of his Doctrine May 1796 p56Soldier Stop and Read May 1796 p57Draft of Decree May 1796 p58INTERMEDIATE SECTION I IRELAND 178661Introduction p63Letter addressed to the Munster Peasantry July 1 1786 p64Declaration of the Belfast Volunteers July 14 1791 p65Oath of the United Irishmen first form 1792 p66Nore Seamens Oath p72Summary of the Republican Programme July 1830 p78Address to the Operative Builders August 26 1833 p90On the Prospects of Society March 30 1834 P98Bronterres National Reformer No 1 Statement of Aims January113Speech on Physical Force November 6 1838119THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848137Organisation of Labour Conclusion 1839 p186Decree Instituting National Workshops February 28 1848 p192Proposals on National Workshops to the Government198From John Mitchels Letters to Ulstermen April and May 18482641848 p269From J Fintan Lalors The Faith of a Felon July 8 1848 p270EPILOGUE271Introduction p272The Republican Manifesto of Kossuth Mazzini and LedruRollin Issued on the Fall of Sebastopol September 1855 p273THE COMMUNE OF PARIS Introduction p275P288Manifesto of the Central Committee March 20 1871 p289First Proclamations of the Commune March 29 1871 p291The Revolution of 1871 in La Commune April292To the Departments April 6 1871 p295Decree on the Vendôme Column April 12 1871 p296Decree on Cooperative Workshops April 16 1871 p297Programme of the Commune April 19 1871 p298Revolution Without Women in La Sociale May300Official Manifesto To the Great Towns May302Declaration of the Minority May 15 1871 p303Ch Delescluzes Last Proclamation May 22 1871 p304Manifesto of the General Council of the International called The Civil War in France May 30 1871 p305THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1905339Introduction p341Petition of the Workers to the Tsar January 22 1905 p363Gapons Letter After the Massacre January 22 1905 p365Resolution of the Social Democratic Party January 23 1905 p366Resolution of the Novgorod Zemstvo January 1905 p367Message of the Tsar February 1 1905 p368The Events in St Petersburg February 2 1905 p369151A Announcement of the Execution of the Grand Duke Sergius by the Organisation of Combat February 18 1905 p370First Common Manifesto of the Russian Socialist Parties December385 Common terms and phrasesabolished April arms army Association attempt Austrian Blanqui Bonaparte Bonapartist bourgeois bourgeoisie Cadet Party called capital capitalist Chartist citizens Commune Communists Constitution declared decree defeat defence delegates demand Democratic districts Document Duma elected employers enemies equality execution existence February feudal force France Frankfurt Assembly French Revolution German Gironde hand honour industry Jacobins January Jules Favre July June King labour land leaders Ledru-Rollin Liberal liberty Louis Blanc Louis Bonaparte Luxembourg Manifesto Marat March massacres means meeting ment Minister Moscow movement National Assembly National Guard officials organisation Paris Paris Commune party peace peasant Petersburg petition police political principles prisoners proclamation production programme proletariat provinces Provisional Government reactionary refused representatives Republic Republican Russian Sans-Culottes September Socialist society soldiers strike struggle suppressed Thiers tion towns Trade Unions troops Tsar Versailles victory vote workers workshops Zemstvo Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, writer, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist, and gourmet who founded the Good Food Guide. He was a member of the Postgate family. BiographyEarly lifeRaymond Postgate was born in Cambridge, the eldest son of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Postgate was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where, despite being sent down for a period because of his pacifism, he gained a First in Honour Moderations in 1917. Postgate sought exemption from World War I military service as a conscientious objector on socialist grounds, but was allowed only non-combatant service in the army, which he refused to accept. Arrested by the civil police, he was brought before Oxford Magistrates' Court, which handed him over to the Army. Transferred to Cowley Barracks, Oxford,[1] for forcible enlistment in the Non-Combatant Corps, he was within five days found medically unfit for service and discharged.[2] Fearful of a possible further attempt at conscription, he went "on the run" for a period. While he was in Army hands, his sister Margaret campaigned on his behalf, in the process meeting the socialist writer and economist G. D. H. Cole, whom she subsequently married. In 1918 Postgate married Daisy Lansbury, daughter of the journalist and Labour Party politician George Lansbury, and was barred from the family home by his Tory father.[3] Communist periodFrom 1918 Postgate worked as a journalist on the Daily Herald, then edited by his father-in-law, Lansbury. In 1920 he published Bolshevik Theory, a book brought to Lenin’s attention by HG Wells. Impressed with the analysis therein, Lenin sent a signed photograph to Postgate, which he kept for the rest of his life.[4] A founding member of the British Communist Party in 1920, Postgate left the Herald to join his colleague Francis Meynell on the staff of the CP's first weekly, The Communist. Postgate soon became its editor and was briefly a major propagandist for the communist cause but he left the party after falling out with its leadership in 1922, when the Communist International insisted that British communists follow the Moscow line. As such, he was one of Britain's first left-wing former communists, and the party came to treat him as an archetypal bourgeois intellectual renegade. He remained a key player in left journalism, however, returning to the Herald, then joining Lansbury on Lansbury's Labour Weekly in 1925–1927.[5] Later career Raymond Postgate, by Stella Bowen, 1934. National Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneIn the late 1920s and early 1930s he published biographies of John Wilkes and Robert Emmet and his first novel, No Epitaph (1932), and worked as an editor for the Encyclopædia Britannica.[6] In 1932 he visited the Soviet Union with a Fabian delegation and contributed to the collection Twelve Studies in Soviet Russia.[7] Later in the 1930s he co-authored with his brother-in-law G. D. H. Cole The Common People, a social history of Britain from the mid-18th century. Postgate edited the left-wing monthly Fact from 1937 to 1939, which featured a monograph on a different subject in each issue.[8] Fact published material by several well-known left-wing writers, including Ernest Hemingway's reports on the Spanish Civil War,[9] C. L. R. James' "A History of Negro Revolt"[8] and Storm Jameson's essay "Documents".[10] Postgate then edited the socialist weekly Tribune from early 1940 until the end of 1941.[11] Tribune had previously been a pro-Soviet publication: however, the Soviet fellow travellers at Tribune were either dismissed, or, in Postgate's words "left soon after in dislike of me".[12] Under Postgate's editorship, Tribune would express "critical support" for the Churchill government and condemn the Communist Party.[13] Postgate's anti-fascism led him to move away from his earlier pacifism. Postgate supported the Second World War and joined the Home Guard near his home in Finchley, London.[1][14] In 1942 he obtained a post as a temporary civil servant in the wartime Board of Trade, concerned with the control of rationed supplies, and he remained in the Service for eight years.[15] He continued his left-wing writings, and his question-and-answer pamphlet "Why you Should Be A Socialist", widely distributed among the returning military as the war ended, probably contributed significantly to the Labour Party's post-war landslide victory. In the postwar period, Postgate continued to be critical of Russia under Stalin, viewing its direction as an abandonment of socialist ideals.[16][17] Always interested in food and wine, after World War II, Postgate wrote a regular column on the poor state of British gastronomy for the pocket magazine Lilliput. In these, inspired by the example of a French travel guide called Le Club des Sans Club, he invited readers to send him reports on eating places throughout the UK, which he would collate and publish. The response was overwhelming, and Postgate's notional "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Food", as he had called it, developed into the Good Food Guide, becoming independent of Lilliput and its successor, The Leader. The Guide's first issue came out in 1951; it accepted no advertisements and still relied on volunteers to visit and report on UK restaurants.[18] As well as democratising ordinary eating out, Postgate sought to demystify the aura surrounding wine, and the flowery language widely used to describe wine flavours. His "A Plain Man's Guide To Wine" undoubtedly did much to make Britain more of a wine-drinking nation.[19] In 1965, Postgate wrote an article in Holiday magazine in which he warned readers against Babycham, which "looks like champagne and is served in champagne glasses [but] is made of pears". The company sued for libel, but Postgate was acquitted, and awarded costs. Postgate's distinctly amateur writings on both food and wine, though highly influential in Britain in their time, did not endear him to professionals in the catering and wine trades, who avoided referring to him; however his activities were much appreciated in France, where in 1951 he had been made the first British "Peer of the Jurade of St Emilion".[20] He continued to work as a journalist, mainly on the Co-operative movement's Sunday paper Reynolds' News, and during the 1950s and 1960s published several historical works and a biography of his father-in-law, The Life of George Lansbury. Postgate wrote several mystery novels that drew on his socialist beliefs to set crime, detection and punishment in a broader social and economic context. His most famous novel is Verdict of Twelve (1940), his other novels include Somebody at the Door (1943) and The Ledger Is Kept (1953). (His sister and brother-in-law, the Coles, also became a successful mystery-writing duo.) After the death of H. G. Wells, Postgate edited some revisions of the two-volume Outline of History that Wells had first published in 1920. Death and legacyRaymond Postgate died on 29 March 1971; his wife Daisy committed suicide a month later.[21] Postgate's younger son, Oliver Postgate, also a conscientious objector though in World War II, became a leading creator of children's television programmes in the UK including Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine and The Clangers. Oliver's brother was the microbiologist and writer John Postgate FRS.

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