LEADER 02320 am 22004333u 450 001 9910765717703321 005 20180108 010 $a952-222-929-6 024 7 $a10.21435/sfh.24 035 $a(CKB)4100000001587860 035 $a(OAPEN)641494 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001587860 100 $a20180108d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 14$aThe Springs Of Democracy 210 $aHelsinki$cFinnish Literature Society / SKS$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (590) 311 $a952-222-918-0 330 $aDuring the First World War, conflicts between the people?s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, restored parliamentary legitimacy, unlike in Germany, where Allied demands for democratisation made reform appear treasonous and fostered native German solutions. Sweden only adopted Western political models after major confrontations, but reforms saw it embark on its path to Social Democracy. In Finland, competing Russian revolutionary discourses and German- and Swedish-inspired appeals to legality brought about the deterioration of parliamentary legitimacy and a civil war. Only a republican compromise imposed by the Entente, following a royalist initiative in 1918, led to the construction of a viable polity. 517 $aSprings Of Democracy 517 $aStudia Fennica Historica vol. 24 606 $aEurope$2bicssc 606 $aEuropean history$2bicssc 606 $a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000$2bicssc 606 $aPolitics & government$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical science & theory$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical ideologies$2bicssc 615 7$aEurope 615 7$aEuropean history 615 7$a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 615 7$aPolitics & government 615 7$aPolitical science & theory 615 7$aPolitical ideologies 700 $aIhalainen$b Pasi$4aut$0867880 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765717703321 996 $aThe Springs Of Democracy$92947646 997 $aUNINA