Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1233 g
The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1233 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-503784-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Democracy in Europe has been a relatively recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War Two did democratic forces become ensconced and, even then, it was to be decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent.
How then did liberal democracy become the order of the day? Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the existing order. In Europe, Geoff Eley here convincingly illustrates, democracy did not evolve organically out of a postwar consensus, the prosperity of the long boom, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and aggressively defended by a loose conglomeration of socialist, labour, feminist, and Communist movements that underwrote the industrial resurrection of Europe's ruined spirit. These parties of the left organised civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals that came to from the very fibre of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectory of European democracy is thus inextricably connected with the history of the European Left.
Seeking neither to valorise nor condemn, Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left's successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and, most importantly, its formative, lasting influence on the political landscape of the West. At a time when the influence and legitimacy - the very value - of Leftist democratic principles in frequently called into question, this book stands as a ringing, substantive affirmation of the power of human ideals and of collective organisation.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction: Defining the Left: Socialism, Democracy, and the People
- Part One: Making Democracy Social: Preparing the Future
- 1: Marxism and the Left: Laying the Foundation
- 2: Industrialisation and the Making of the Working Class
- 3: The Rise of Labour Movement: The Forward March of History
- 4: Social Democracy and its Others: Socialism's Lacks
- 5: The Permanence of Capitalism?
- Part Two: Revolutionary Europe, 1914-1923
- 6: The Rupture of War: Crisis and the Reconstruction of the Left, 1914-17
- 7: The Russian Revolution
- 8: Breaking the Mold of Socialism: Left-Wing Communism, 1917-23
- 9: Germany and Italy: Two Cases
- 10: The Foundation of Communist Parties
- 11: Living the Future: The Left in Culture
- 12: The Politics of Gender: Women and the Left
- 13: A House Divided
- Part Three: Stabilisation and the "War of Position"
- 14: The Stability of Capitalism: With or Without Democracy
- 15: Stalinism and Western Marxism: Socialism in One Country
- 16: Fascism and the Popular Front, 1930-38: Politics of Retreat
- 17: People's War and People's Peace: Remaking the Nation, 1939-47
- 18: Closure: Postwar Communism, Welfare Capitalism, and the Cold War, 1945-56
- 19: 1956
- Part Four: Future Imperfect
- 20: 1968: It Moves After All
- 21: Feminism: Regendering the Left
- 22: Class and the Politics of Labour
- 23: New Politics, New Times: Remaking Socialism and Democracy
- 24: Gorbachev, End of Communism, and the Revolutions of 1989
- 25: New Social Movements: Politics Out of Doors
- 26: The Centre and the Margins: Decline or Renewal?
- Conclusion
- Appendix
