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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782529203321

Autore

Luebbert Gregory M

Titolo

Liberalism, fascism, or social democracy : social classes and the political origins of regimes in interwar Europe / / Gregory M. Luebbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

ISBN

0-19-773364-6

1-280-53341-2

0-19-802307-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xi, 416 pages)

Disciplina

306.2/094

Soggetti

Labor movement - Europe - History

Social structure - Europe - History

Liberalism - Europe - History

Socialism - Europe - History

Democracy - History

Fascism - Europe - History

Europe Politics and government 1871-1918

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-402) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; I: THE ORIGINS; 2. Ties That Would Divide: Liberal-Labor Alliances in Britain, France, and Switzerland before the War; 3. Cleavage Structures and the Failure of Liberal Movements in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe; 4. The Break with Liberalism and the Formation of Working-Class Movements; 5. The Organization of Workers: Liberal and Aliberal Societies Compared; II: THE OUTCOMES; 6. War, Crisis, and the Stabilization of the Liberal Order; 7. Narrowing the Aliberal Outcomes: Liberalism's Final Failure and the Irrelevance of Traditional Dictatorship; 8. Social Democracy and Fascism; 9. Conclusion: Class Alliances and Transition to Mass Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work provides a sweeping historical analysis of the political development of Western Europe in the late nineteenth and early



twentieth century. Arguing that the evolution of most Western European nations into liberal democracies, social democracies, or fascist regimes was attributable to a discrete set of social class alliances, the author explores the origins and outcomes of the political development in the individual nations. In Britain, France, and Switzerland, countries with a unified middle class, liberal forces established political hegemony before World War I.