One Hundred Years of Socialism de Donald Sassoon

One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century

Donald Sassoon

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 2013

This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 countries, covering the fortunes of socialism from the rise of the Bolsheviks through two World Wars to the revival of feminism and the arrival of "green" politics.

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Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo and educated in Paris, Milan and London. He is Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London and is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including Contemporary Italy: Politics, Economy and Society Since 1945, Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting, The Culture of the Europeans and Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism.

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List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNew IntroductionIntroduction to the First EditionBook One: ExpansionPart One: The Hard Road to Political Power1. The Establishment of Socialism Before 19142. From War to War (1914-40)3. Thwarted Alternatives4. The War, Resistance and Its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939-48Book Two: ConsolidationPart Two: The Construction of Western Socialism 1945-505. The Socialists After 19456. Building Social Capitalism 1945-507. External Constraints: A Socialist Foreign Policy?Part Three: Toward Revisionism 1950-698. The Golden Age of Capitalism9. Between Neutralism and Atlanticism10. The Foundations of RevisionismPart Four: The Perplexing Sixties: 'Something in the Air'11. The Return of the Left12. The Establishment of a Foreign Policy ConsensusPart Five: The Great Contestation13. The Revival of Working Class Militancy 1960-7314. The Revival of Ideology and the Student Contestation15. The Revival of FeminismBook Three: CrisisPart Six: The End of the Great Capitalist Boom 1973-8916. The Crisis and the Left: An Overview17. Social Democracy in Small Countries: Austria, Sweden, Holland and Belgium18. Germany and Britain: SPD and Labour in Power19. The French Experiment20. The Failure of Italian Communism21. The End of Authoritarian Regimes in Western Europe: Portugal, Spain and GreecePart Seven: The Great Crisis of Socialism22. Workers, Women and Greens23. The 1980s: Radicalism in its Last Redoubt24. The New RevisionismEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex