Forging democracy: the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

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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

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