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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815666403321

Autore

Eley Geoff <1949->

Titolo

Forging democracy : the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 / / Geoff Eley [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771314-9

0-19-802140-2

1-280-65482-1

0-19-987877-3

1-60129-626-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 698 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

940.28

Soggetti

Communism - Europe - History

Socialism - Europe - History

History

Europe Politics and government 1789-1900

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

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.