Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 525 g
Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society
The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 525 g
Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society
ISBN: 978-1-84545-366-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Comparison, Time and Narration – Methodological Remarks
What is the Left?
Going beyond Ideology
The Concept of Nation
Literature and Sources
Chapter 1. Communist Concepts in Crisis
The Communist Party – Leader of the People, Protector of the Country
The DKP – For the National Independence of the Danish People
The SKP – Completing Swedish Democracy
1956 and Beyond – Towards an Unclear Future
The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU
The Invasion of Hungary
More than One Communism – the International Perspective
Chapter 2. Adaptation and Innovation
Renewal of Communism
SF and the Danish New Left
The Open Marriage of Swedish Communism
Reinventing Internationalism
Third World Solidarity and Virtual Internationalism
Europe and Norden – the Regional Identity
Welfare, Culture and Class – the Domestic Aspect
The Pros and Cons of Welfare
Culture, Modernity, Alienation
Class and People
Chapter 3. Contesting Pragmatism
The Late 1960s and the Radical Youth
The Global Contestation.
Vietnam, America and the World Revolution
Vietnam in Denmark: from Moral Indignation to Revolutionary Consciousness
Vietnam in Sweden: the Leninist Renaissance
America and Anti-Americanism
Party Splits
Return of Europe
New European Threats, Fascism and Imperialism
1968!
Capitalism at Home – the End of Exceptionalism
Welfare or Capitalism
The Fascist Threat
Nordic Colonialism
Chapter 4. Turning Inwards
The Transformation of Capitalism and the Establishment of Estrangement
Splits on Common Ground, the ‘Groupuscules’ Phenomenon
Popular Movements Revisited
Return of the Working Class
Popular Culture
Revival of Nationalism
Revivalism and Conservatism
The End is Near!
Countries in Crisis
Chapter 5: The End of the Road
The End of Leftist Hegemony
The End of Progression
The Radical Trap
The Left on the Defensive
Chapter 6: Summary, Conclusions and Outlook
Summary: Transformations and Crises
Concepts and Crises
Outlook – the left in the 1980s
Militancy and Pragmatism – the Danish left
Alternative Roads, Beyond Left and Right in Sweden
Bibliography
Index