Socialism Across the Iron Curtain - Socialist Parties in East West Reconstruction of Europe After 1945

List of contents

1. The national road to socialism; 2. Bread, butter and egalitarianism; 3. Discipline, sacrifice, and production; 4. The morale of the story; 5. The lessons of the past; 6. Elections, parliaments, and constitutions; 7. Democracy from below; 8.The international road to socialism.

About the author

Jan De Graaf is a postdoctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He graduated with the highest distinction from Universiteit Utrecht in 2009 and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Portsmouth in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working on a four-year postdoctoral project on wildcat strikes as a pan-European phenomenon, funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Summary

This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism shows the Cold War categories of 'East' and 'West' cannot be projected back onto post-war Europe. By comparing the socialist and social democratic parties in Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, and Poland, it highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the two putative blocs.

Product details

• Authors: Jan De Graaf, Jan (Ruhr-Universitat De Graaf, GRAAF JAN DE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108441179
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44117-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Political Parties, Europe, European History, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Political ideologies and movements, Political parties and party platforms, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)