Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

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Psychology Press, 1995 - History - 630 pages
During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.
This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to developments in the conflict. These documents bear witness to Russell's growing commitment to pacifism, and reveal the development of the patterns of political argument, rhetoric and activism which were to characterise his work throughout his life.

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Contents

Abbreviations
xiv
16
xix
17
xxxi
20
liii
Acknowledgements
lxi
General Headnote
3
Why Do Men Persist in Living? 1917
11
The Prospects of the N C F in the New Year 1917
53
A New Tribunal for Gaol Delivery 1917
361
Freedom or Victory? 1917
375
The N C F Christmas Card 1917
381
94
396
The German Peace Offer 1918
398
96
406
General Headnote
411
Human Character and Social Institutions 1918
419

General Headnote
59
Universal National Service 1917
72
Letter to NCF Divisional and Branch
79
a To N C F Camp Secretaries 1917
93
Secretaries 1917
147
Tribute at Leeds 1917
182
Pacifism and Economic Revolution 1917
196
Home Office Work Centres 1917
206
The International Situation 1917
215
Capitalism and the Wages System 1917
237
Individual Liberty and Public Control 1917
256
General Headnote
277
The Popes Peace Note
294
Six Months for Spreading Truth 1917
308
The Kaisers Reply to the Pope 1917
314
Asia and the War 1917
327
A Valuable Suggestion by the Bishop of Exeter 1917
333
The People and Peace 1917
336
Saul Among the Prophets 1 1917
354
Despair in Regard to the World 1918
426
General Headnote
443
Has Achieved 1919
449
A United Policy 1916
455
Russias Charter of Freedom 1917
462
The Absolutists
471
Plans for the Peoples Party 1917
480
Second Manifesto of
492
ANNOTATION
501
The Government and Absolute Exemption 1917
510
Russian Charter of Freedom 1917
513
National Service 1917
546
TEXTUAL NOTES
559
79
571
8888
587
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
591
GENERAL INDEX
609
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.