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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Red Vienna (Red Vienna)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a startlingly low number of cited resources, and some seriously problematic reading. It has led to several readers anonymously submitting negative feedback on the rather brief talk page. It suffers from questionable word choices and tone that compromise its integrity, as well as a substantial lack of balance between the subsections of the article. History-centred articles like these typically possess a "Background" and "Aftermath" or "Legacy" section, which help to contextualise the place of the subject within the historical continuum. This article completely lacks the latter, and the former is extremely reductive and perceivably biased.


 * Sources

- The crisis of Austrian socialism : from Red Vienna to civil war, 1927-1934. Rabinbach, Anson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983

- Black Vienna : The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938. Wasserman, Janek, author. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]

- The Red Vienna Sourcebook. Zechner, Ingo ; Spitaler, Georg ; McFarland, Rob. Melton: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2020

- Red Vienna, white socialism, and the blues : Ann Tizia Leitich's America. McFarland, Robert B., author. Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015

- Social democracy in the Austrian Provinces, 1918-1934 : beyond Red Vienna. Jeffery, Charlie. London : Leicester University Press ; Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995

- Red Vienna : experiment in working-class culture, 1919-1934. Gruber, Helmut, 1928-. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Austromarxism (Austromarxism)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Like the Red Vienna article, the Austromarxism article is very scant for detail. I am surprised this has even been classified as a "Starter" class article, as it has the length of a stub, and virtually all of the citations are centered around articles focusing upon one individual. This may be the most difficult article to obtain resources for, as it appears to be a relatively oblique and little-discussed ideology.


 * Sources

- The Austrian socialist experiment : social democracy and austromarxism, 1918-1934. Rabinbach, Anson. Boulder : Westview Press, 1985

- Austromarxism. London, England: SAGE Publications. Capital & Class, 1979-10, Vol.3 (3), p.154-155.

- Otto Bauer (1881-1938) : thinker and politician. Czerwińska-Schupp, Ewa (1952- ). Autor ; Zurowski, Maciej (tłumacz). Tłumaczenie. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, copyright 2017.

- Otto Bauer: The idea of nation as a plural community and the question of territorial and non-territorial autonomy. Máiz Ramón ; Pereira María. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade. Filozofija i društvo (Zbornik radova), 2020-01-01, Vol.31 (3), p.287-300

- Arbeiderpartiet og austromarxismen. Eirik Wig Sundvall. Universitetsforlaget Historisk tidsskrift, 2020-06-02 (2), p.112-127

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bavarian Soviet Republic)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is one of the more developed articles within the WikiProject Socialism's Start-class category. There is a much greater diversity of citations present, and the quality of the sub-sections within the article is decent. The article could, however, use for more information regarding life under the government outside of the realm of politics itself, as well as more regarding the political legacy of the Republic after its collapse and the way it influenced the perceptions of people in Weimar Germany that may have contributed to the political paradigm throughout the 1920s and early 1930s.


 * Sources
 * I have been having trouble finding substantive resources so far on the University of Miami Library system, but it may simply be a matter of using incorrect keywords to find what I'm looking for. I will continue to search the database for more resources on the subject.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Spartacus League (Spartacus League)


 * Article Evaluation
 * For an article on such an influential subject matter, it is surprisingly brief. Like the Austromarxism article, I am surprised this has not been classified as a stub. The "History" subsection is extremely brief in its descriptions of how the Spartakusbund rose to prominence, how its figureheads came to the centre of the movement, the influence the movement had, and its downfall after the failed revolt. There is also virtually no discussion of the legacy the Spartacist Revolt had upon European political perceptions of communism, especially regarding how it became a prominent scapegoat for "Red Scare" politics, as it was generally regarded as an attempted repeat of the February and October revolutions in Imperial Russia and a sign that what was originally perceived as a Russian problem had the capacity to spread to Western Europe (and North America)..


 * Sources

- Founding Weimar : violence and the German Revolution of 1918-1919. Jones, Mark, 1981- author. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

- The Spartacist uprising of 1919 and the crisis of the German socialist movement : a study of the relation of political theory and party practice. Waldman, Eric. Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, [1958]

- Spartacists. Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, 2006, Vol.4, p.2424-2426.

- Germany Red or Black. McMeekin, Sean. Yale University Press. The Red Millionaire, 2003-12-11.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Structural Marxism (Structural Marxism)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article, like the Spartacist League and Austromarxism articles, is also rather brief. There are a number of articles present at the moment, but it appears to be a very limited subject matter so far. Additionally, while the article discusses the influences of Structuralism upon Structural Marxism, there appears be relatively little information on the impact that the latter had back upon the former movement in return. The "Criticism" section appears to be reduced to the writings of a single philosopher, and there are likely more perspectives (both in favour of and critical of the subject) that have yet to be covered.


 * Sources

- Reading Althusser : an essay on structural Marxism. Smith, Steven B., 1951-.Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.

- Toward a Marxist Anthropology : Problems and Perspectives. Diamond, Stanley, editor; International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.) Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011].

- The rise and fall of structural Marxism : Althusser and his influence. Benton, Ted, 1942-. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1984.

- Spinoza, Marx, Althusser: 'Structural Marxism' revisited. Norris, Christopher. UK: Edinburgh University Press. Paragraph (Modern Critical Theory Group), 1990-11, Vol.13 (3), p.301-325.

- Some Reflections on Anthropological Structural Marxism. Nugent, Stephen. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2007-06-01, Vol.13 (2), p.419-431.