Socialism and European Unity
Author | : Michael Newman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Newman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bogdan Denis Denitch |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 0816618720 |
Analyzes the potential social, political, and cultural implications of the recent changes in Eastern Europe; the declining influence of the superpowers; and the opportunities and pitfalls of a European community
Author | : Richard T Griffiths |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2023-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004625011 |
Deals with an important aspect of the pre-history of the European Economic Community, namely the division in the 1950's between the West European socialist parties on the question of 'European integration'. Will provide a useful tool for the comparative study of the EEC.
Author | : William Smaldone |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786611597 |
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. Striving for sweeping social, economic, cultural, and political change, socialists were a diverse lot. However, they were united by principles asserting the social and political equality of all people, ideas that won the adherence of millions and struck fear in the hearts of their numerous opponents. William Smaldone shows how, over the course of 200 years, socialists successfully promoted the democratization of European society and a more equitable division of wealth. At the same time, he illustrates how conflicts over the means of achieving their aims divided them into rival “socialist” and “communist” currents, a rift that undercut the struggle against fascism and helped lay the groundwork for Europe’s division during the Cold War. Although many predicted the demise of socialism as a potent force after the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s dissolution, and the rise of neo-liberal ideology, recent developments show that such a judgment was premature. The author argues that the growth of new socialist parties across Europe indicates that socialist ideas remain vibrant in the face of capitalism’s failure to solve chronic social and economic problems, especially following the deep global crisis that began in 2008. Combining an analytical narrative with a selection of primary texts and visual images, this book provides undergraduate students with a brief, readable history, including an overview of how socialist political movements have evolved over time and stressing the rich diversity that has characterized socialism’s foundations from its beginning. This new edition brings this text up to date and examines the European socialist movement in the face of 21st century challenges. It includes a new preface, including the 2017 American election, updated bibliographies, two new chapters and an afterword.
Author | : Kevin Featherstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bogdan Denitch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1990-01 |
Genre | : Communist countries |
ISBN | : 9780860913177 |
Author | : Francis A. Ridley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Byron Criddle |
Publisher | : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence Wilde |
Publisher | : Dartmouth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Is there a future for socialism in Europe? The collapse of the communist dictatorships and the electoral reverses suffered by social democratic parties have called into question the whole historical project of challenging the power of capitalism. Modern European Socialism examines social democratic and communist responses to the immense changes which have occurred in the world economy since the collapse of the post-war boom. The power of global capital to dictate the conditions for investment has made it virtually impossible to promote egalitarian policies at the level of the nation state. However, Wilde argues that socialism can renew its relevance at a European level, if the process of economic integration culminates in a fully-fledged European state.
Author | : Teresa Malice |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311067095X |
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the policies implemented by "red" municipalities, in managing local economies and social policies, but also in maintaining a lively and interconnected transnational microsociability among grassroots activists. Despite the increasing ideological divergences between Eastern and Western communists, and between Italian democratic communists and the more dogmatic and repressive, strictly pro-Soviet ones in the GDR, communication continued to flourish on the local level. The book explores what still linked the two worlds together, the "bright side of socialism": in this case, a common symbolism related to the past, practical exchanges in the present dimension, and a shared future imagination and conception of the town on the basis of a socialist horizon, built around welfare and services for citizens and workers.