One hundred years of socialism: The West European left in the twentieth century/

Sassoon, Donald

One hundred years of socialism: The West European left in the twentieth century/ Donald Sassoon - London: I.B.Tauris, 1996. - 965 p.

Preface to the New Edition --
List of Tables --
List of Figures --
Ackowledgements --
List of Abbreviations --
Introduction --
BOOK ONE --
EXPANSION --
PART ONE: The Hard Road to Political Power --
1. The Establishment of Socialism Before 1914 --
2. From War to War (1914-40) --
The War --
The Birth of Modern Communism --
The Socialists: Nordic Success and Spanish Failure --
The German Social Democrats --
The Popular Front in France --
The Failure of the British Labour Party --
3. Thwarted Alternatives --
The 'Neo-Socialist' Planners --
Austro-Marxism and Otto Bauer. Italian Communism and Gramsci --
4. The War, Resistance and Its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939-48 --
BOOK TWO --
CONSOLIDATION --
PART TWO: The Construction of Welfare Socialism 1945-50 --
5. The Socialists After 1945 --
6. Building Social Capitalism 1945-50 --
The Welfare State --
Controlling Capitalism: Nationalization and Economic Planning --
7. External Constraints: A Socialist Foreign Policy? --
PART THREE: Towards Revisionism 1950-60 --
8. The Golden Age of Capitalism --
9. Between Neutralism and Atlanticism --
10. The Foundations of Revisionism. PART FOUR: The Perplexing Sixties: 'Something in the Air' --
11. The Return of the Left --
Prosperity --
Elections --
Opposition --
In Power --
12. The Establishment of a Foreign Policy Consensus --
PART FIVE: The Great Contestation --
13. The Revival of Working-class Militancy 1960-73 --
14. The Revival of Ideology and the Student Contestation --
15. The Revival of Feminism --
BOOK THREE --
CRISIS --
PART SIX: The End of the Great Capitalist Boom 1973-89 --
16. The Crisis and the Left: An Overview --
The End of the Golden Age of Capitalism --
The Vicissitudes of the Left. 17. Social Democracy in Small Countries: Austria, Sweden, Holland and Belgium --
Austria --
Sweden --
Holland --
Belgium --
18. Germany and Britain: SPD and Labour in Power --
19. The French Experiment --
20. The Failure of Italian Communism --
21. The End of Authoritarian Regimes in Western Europe: Portugal, Spain and Greece --
Economic Preconditions --
The Revolucao in Portugal --
The Ruptura Negociada in Spain --
The Greek Allaghi --
PART SEVEN: The Great Crisis of Socialism --
22. Workers, Women and Greens --
Only the Workers? --
Fewer Workers --
Working Women --
Sex Equality. The 'New Politics' --
The Greens --
The Presence of Women --
23. The 1980s: Radicalism in its Last Redoubt --
Rise and Fall of the Labour Party Left --
The Swedish Wage-earners Funds --
The New Politics of the SPD --
24. The New Revisionism --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.

9781848852976


Socialist parties -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism -- Europe -- 20th century.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

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