William Smaldone is the E. J. Whipple Professor of History at Willamette University. He is the author of several books in German and socialist history including Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (1998) and European Socialism: A Concise History with Documents (2019). His most recent work is “Freedom is Indivisible”: Rudolf Hilferding’s Correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, and Paul Hertz, 1902-1938 (2023).
Otto Bauer's Austrian Revolution
Socialism Past, Socialism Present
Against the Current No. 229, March/April 2024
The Complete Rosa Luxemburg
Against the Current, No. 218, May/June 2022
Chronicle of Germany 1918-19
Against the Current, No. 200, May/June 2019
Triumph and Tragedy
Against the Current, No. 197, November/December 2018
The Promise of A Revolution
Against the Current, No. 181, March/April 2016
August 1914 and World War I
Against the Current, No. 172, September/October 2014
Thinking About Equality
Against the Current, No. 153, July/August 2011
Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
Against the Current, No. 144, January/February 2010
German Social Democracy in the Great Coalition
Against the Current, No. 128, May/June 2007
German Social Democracy in Crisis
Against the Current, No. 112, September/October 2004
Facing Fascism in Europe
Against the Current, No. 84, January/February 2000
Social Democracy and the Paradox of the Vanguard: Rudolf Hilferding's Odyssey
Against the Current, No. 75, July/August 1998