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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299797903321

Autore

Costa Ettore

Titolo

The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement : Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945-1951 / / by Ettore Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319773476

331977347X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 333 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, , 2634-6567

Disciplina

306.3609

Soggetti

Labor

History

Great Britain - History

Europe - History - 1492-

World politics

Social history

Labor History

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Modern Europe

Political History

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From the old International to the new internationalism (1940-45) -- Chapter 3: Parties and people, the Labour Party and the international socialist network -- Chapter 4: The Labour Party and Eastern Europe, social democracy behind the Iron Curtain -- Chapter 5: The Institutional Development, from the International Socialist Conference to Comisco (1946-1948) -- Chapter 6: The Labour Party and Italy, social democracy below the Olive Line -- Chapter 7: 'The little Foreign Office of Transport House', British foreign policy and socialist internationalism -- Chapter 8: The Rebirth of the



Socialist International (1948-1951) -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist International (International Socialist Conference and Comisco) supported cohabitation with pro-communist socialists and the USSR, but with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe it committed to militant anti-communism. Ambiguity between the Labour Party and Labour Government influenced British policy in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy and Poland, while the characterization and stereotypes of Eastern and Southern Europe shaped the language and actions of the British. Furthermore, the book shows how international contacts and the British and Swedish model encouraged the transition of socialist parties to responsible government parties fully embracing Western democracy and prepared the ideological revision of the 1950s.