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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777309903321

Autore

Horn Gerd-Rainer

Titolo

European socialists respond to fascism : ideology, activism, and contingency in the 1930s / / Gerd-Rainer Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-19-771289-4

0-19-987994-X

1-280-52776-5

0-19-535755-8

1-4294-1553-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)

Disciplina

335.0094

335/.0094

Soggetti

Socialism - Europe - History - 20th century

National socialism

Europe Politics and government 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; ONE: Introduction; TWO: The Itineraries of the LSI and the Comintern; THREE: An International United Front?; FOUR: The Era of United Fronts; FIVE: The Promise of the Plan; SIX: The Nature of a Popular Front; SEVEN: Transnational Consciousness Within the European Left; EIGHT: Piston-Box and Steam; NINE: Contingency in the Historical Process; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of WWII and beyond.