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Forging democracy : the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 / Geoff Eley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eley, Geoff, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism--Europe--History.
- Communism.
- Socialism--Europe--History.
- Socialism.
- Europe--Politics and government--1789-1900.
- Europe.
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 698 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text gives a history of the European Left's successes and failures, its high and lows, its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses, and its formative, lasting influence on the political landscape of the West.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Defining the Left - Socialism, Democracy, and the People. Part One Making Democracy Social: Preparing the Future - Marxism and the Left: Laying the Foundation; Industrialization and the Making of the Working Class; The Rise of Labour Movement - The Forward March of History; Social Democracy and its Others - Socialism's Lacks; The Permanence of Capitalism?. Part Two Revolutionary Europe: 1914-1923; The Rupture of War - Crisis and the Reconstruction of the Left, 1914-17; The Russian Revolution; Breaking the Mould of Socialism - Left-Wing Communism, 1917-23; Germany and Italy - Two Cases; The Foundation of Communist Parties; Living the Future - The Left in Culture; The Politics of Gender: Women and the Left; A House Divided. Part Three Stabilization and the "War of Position": The Stability of Capitalism: With or Without Democracy; Stalinism and Western Marxism - Socialism in One Country; Fascism and the Popular Front, 1930-38 - Politics of Retreat; People's War and People's Peace: Remaking the Nation, 1939-47; Closure - Postwar Communism, Welfare Capitalism, and the Cold War, 1945-56; 1956. Part Four Future Imperfect; 1968 - It Moves After All; Feminism - Regendering the Left; Class and the Politics of Labour; New Politics, New Times - Remaking Socialism and Democracy; Gorbachev, End of Communism, and the Revolutions of 1989; New Social Movements - Politics Out of Doors; The Centre and the Margins - Decline or Renewal?.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771314-9
- 0-19-802140-2
- 1-280-65482-1
- 0-19-987877-3
- 1-60129-626-6
- OCLC:
- 784886677
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