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This accessible text offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to European socialism, which arose in the maelstrom of the industrial and democratic revolutions launched in the eighteenth century. This new edition brings this text up to date with a new preface, including the 2016 American election, updated bibliographies, two new chapters and an afterword.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Socialist Ideals and Imaginings (1789-1830)
2. Socialist Ideology amid Reform and Revolution, 1830-1870
3. Socialism in the Era of Mass Politics, 1870-1914
4. The Birth of Communism and the Transformation of Socialism, 1914-1945
5. Socialism and Communism during the Cold War, 1945-1991
6. The Retreat and Reemergence of Socialism, 1991-2008
7. Socialism, Populism, and the Authoritarian Challenge
Index
About the author
William Smaldone is Professor of History at Willamette University. Professor Smaldone's research focuses on twentieth century German and European labor history. His Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (1998) examines the life of one of German Social Democracy's leading economic and political thinkers from the turn of the century until the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933. His second book, Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933 (2009), treats the failure of Germany's Social Democratic leadership in its struggle against Adolf Hitler's National Socialist movement. In 2013 he published European Socialism: A Concise History. More recently, with Mark Blum of the University of Kentucky, Louisville, he has published Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, a two-volume collection of documents on one of twentieth century European socialism's most important intellectual currents. He is now translating and editing Rudolf Hilferding's correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, and Paul Hertz.
William Smaldone teaches the following courses:
HIST 116 - Western Civilization Since 1650
HIST 131 - The Rise of Capitalism
HIST 131 - The Holocaust
HIST 254 - Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 255 - Cities and the Making of Modern Europe
HIST 258 - Modern Latin America
HIST 306 - History Through Biography
HIST 343 - The Bolshevik Revolution
HIST 372 - Modern Russia
HIST 390 - Germany From Bismarck to Hitler
HIST 391 - Germany since 1945
HIST 440 - History of European Socialism
