William A. Pelz (1951-2017) was Director of the Institute of Working Class History in Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His works include A People's History of the German Revolution, (Pluto, 2018) Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Haymarket, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (Merlin Press, 2014) and A People's History of Modern Europe (Pluto, 2016).

'From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the collapse of the Soviet Union, William A. Pelz presents a challenging alternative to the conventional narratives of European history'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 'The King’s in His Castle... All’s Right with the World': The Collapse of the Middle Ages2. 'The Other Reformation': Martin Luther, Religious Dogma and the Common People3. 'The World Turned Upside Down': The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and the English Revolution, 1640-494. The Rise of the Third Estate: The French People Revolt5. Becoming an Appendage to the Machine: The Revolution in Production6. From the Revolutions of 1848-49 to the First People's Democracy: The Paris Commune7. The Rise of the Working Classes: Trade Unions and Socialism, 1871-19148. Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in World War I9. War Leads to Revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19)10. Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-3311. Against Fascist Terror: War and Genocide, 1933-4512. A New Europe? 1945-4813. Europeans in the Cold War: Between Moscow and Washington14. From the Berlin Wall to the Prague Spring: A New Generation of Europeans15. Fighting for Peace in an Atomic Age, 1969-8916. Europe Falls into the Twenty-First CenturyNotesIndex

William A. Pelz (1951-2017) was Director of the Institute of Working Class History in Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His works include A People's History of the German Revolution, (Pluto, 2018) Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Haymarket, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (Merlin Press, 2014) and A People's History of Modern Europe (Pluto, 2016).

'From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the collapse of the Soviet Union, William A. Pelz presents a challenging alternative to the conventional narratives of European history'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 'The King’s in His Castle... All’s Right with the World': The Collapse of the Middle Ages2. 'The Other Reformation': Martin Luther, Religious Dogma and the Common People3. 'The World Turned Upside Down': The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and the English Revolution, 1640-494. The Rise of the Third Estate: The French People Revolt5. Becoming an Appendage to the Machine: The Revolution in Production6. From the Revolutions of 1848-49 to the First People's Democracy: The Paris Commune7. The Rise of the Working Classes: Trade Unions and Socialism, 1871-19148. Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in World War I9. War Leads to Revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19)10. Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-3311. Against Fascist Terror: War and Genocide, 1933-4512. A New Europe? 1945-4813. Europeans in the Cold War: Between Moscow and Washington14. From the Berlin Wall to the Prague Spring: A New Generation of Europeans15. Fighting for Peace in an Atomic Age, 1969-8916. Europe Falls into the Twenty-First CenturyNotesIndex