One Hundred Years of Socialism: the West European Left in the Twentieth Century

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Expansion -- I. The hard road to political power -- The Establishment of Socialism Before 1914 -- From War to War (1914-40) -- Thwarted Alternatives -- The War, Resistance and Its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939-48 -- Conolidation -- II. The construction of welfare socialism 1945-50 -- The Socialists After 1945 -- Building Social Capitalism 1945-50 -- External Constraints: A Socialist Foreign Policy? -- III. Towards revisionism 1950-60 -- The Golden Age of Capitalism -- Between Neutralism and Atlanticism -- The Foundations of Revisionism -- IV. The perplexing sixities: 'something in the air' -- The Return of the Left -- The Establishment of a Foreign Policy Consensus -- V. The great contestation -- The Revival of Working-class Militancy 1960-73 -- The Revival of Ideology and the Student Contestation -- The Revival of Feminism -- Crisis -- VI. The end of the great capitalist boom 1973-89 -- The Crisis and the Left: An Overview -- Social Democracy in Small Countries: Austria, Sweden, Holland and Belgium -- Germany and Britain: SPD and Labour in Power -- The French Experiment -- The Failure of Italian Communism -- The End of Authoritarian Regimes in Western Europe, Portugal, Spain and Greece -- VII. The great crisis of socialism -- Workers, Women and Greens -- The 1980's: Radicalism in its Last Redoubt -- The New Revisionism.;This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 countries, covering the fortunes of socialism from the rise of the Bolsheviks through two World Wars to the revival of feminism and the arrival of "green" politics. -- Provided by publisher.