The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism is a timely response to the need for a new, comprehensive biography of the life and works of Eduard Bernstein, the German "Father of Marxist Revisionism." Professor Steger addresses recent academic developments and current debates on the "End of Socialism." Setting this study within the historical context of the European labor movement, Steger thus interprets Bernstein's "Evolutionary Socialism" as an ethically-motivated quest for liberty, solidarity and distributive justice.

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the nature of Bernstein's quest; Part I. Preparation: 1. The making of a social democrat; 2. Persecution and exile; 3. The 'Revisionist Controversy'; Part II. Vision: 4. The meaning of socialism; 5. Evolutionary socialism as 'organized liberalism': rethinking economics, state and democracy; Part III. Disappointment: 6. Facing the critics; 7. The revisionist debate extended; 8. The dawn of a new era; 9. Bernstein's final battle: confronting socialist instrumentalism; Epilogue: evolutionary socialism at the 'end of socialism'; Bibliography; Index.