Introduction to "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" Author: Zheng Huan/Pan Dan Publisher: Party School Press of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

IntroductionChapter 1 The key to understanding the history of the Second French RepublicI. Understanding "living history" from a materialist perspectiveII. How did Marx write "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"III. Introduction to "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"Chapter 2 The polyphony of history: A brief history of the French RevolutionI. The French Revolution of 1789II. The revolutionary tradition of 1793-1795III. The Eighteenth Brumaire and the Napoleonic EmpireIV. The Bourbon Restoration and the July MonarchyV. The Revolution of 1848 and the Second French Republic Chapter 3 Game of Thrones: Class Struggles in France 1. The Defeat of the Paris Proletariat 2. The Domination and Disintegration of the Bourgeois Republicans 3. The Defeat of the Social Democrats 4. The Struggle between the Party of Order and Bonaparte Chapter 4 Anatomy of Modern State Power: Bonapartism 1. Napoleon I and the Establishment of the Modern State 2. Napoleon the Younger and the Variation of the Modern State 3. The Bonapartist State Chapter 5 Theoretical Enlightenment of "The Eighteenth Brumaire" 1. Enlightenment of Marx's Class Analysis 2. Enlightenment of Marx's State Theory 3. Enlightenment of Marx's Revolutionary Theory