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Joseph Buttinger’s book, “In the Twilight of Socialism,” is the history of the Austrian socialist underground from the victory of Austro-Fascism in February 1934 up to Hitler’s Anschluss in March 1938.

Joseph Buttinger’s book, “In the Twilight of Socialism,” is the history of the Austrian socialist underground from the victory of Austro-Fascism in February 1934 up to Hitler’s Anschluss in March 1938. The movement of the “Revolutionary Socialists” was the most dramatic expression of Austrian socialism; it was at the same time the climax of the European labor movement which had recognized the Austrian party as the “model” party of the Second Int...