First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 The Period of Formation 1862-1905; Chapter 1 The Historical Framework; Chapter 2 The Origins of Sectional Organization, Political and Economic; Chapter 3 Stabilization of Activities and form of the Sectional Organization; Part 2 The Period of Crisis 1905-1923; Chapter 4 Sectional Organization in the Age of Monopoly Capitalism; Chapter 5 War and Revolution; Chapter 6 Stabilization of Bourgeois Rule; Part 3 Central European Democracy and Its Fall 1924-1938; Chapter 7 The Institutional Framework; Chapter 8 The Achievements; Chapter 9 The Catastrophe; Conclusion;