Introduction 1
Chapter One
Anarchism Before the International 9
Chapter Two
The Founding of the International 57
Chapter Three
The Debates on Property 81
Chapter Four
Bakunin and the Alliance 99
Chapter Five
The 1869 Basel Congress and the Syndicalist Consensus 109
Chapter Six
The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune 139
Chapter Seven
From Out of the Ashes: The Defeat of the Commune and the Rise of the International in Italy and Spain 155
Chapter Eight
Very Real Splits in the International 167
Chapter Nine
The Antiauthoritarian International and the Emergence of the Anarchist Movement 197
Chapter Ten
From Collectivism to Communism and Propaganda by the Deed 215
Chapter Eleven
The End (of the International) and the Beginning (of the Anarchist Movement) 239
Endnotes 263
Index 303