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Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of
the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left championed democracy in the
revolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945. They organized civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European democracy and
the history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound together.
Geoff Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left--its successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and, most importantly, its formative, lasting influence on the European political landscape. At a
time when the Left's influence and legitimacy are frequently called into question, Forging Democracy passionately upholds its vital contribution.
Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of
the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left championed democracy in the
revolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945. They organized civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European democracy and
the history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound together.
Geoff Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left--its successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and, most importantly, its formative, lasting influence on the European political landscape. At a
time when the Left's influence and legitimacy are frequently called into question, Forging Democracy passionately upholds its vital contribution.
- 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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 720 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195044799 |
| ISBN-10: | 0195044797 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Eley, Geoff |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Maße: | 240 x 154 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Geoff Eley |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.04.2002 |
| Gewicht: | 0,998 kg |
- 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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 720 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195044799 |
| ISBN-10: | 0195044797 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Eley, Geoff |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Maße: | 240 x 154 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Geoff Eley |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.04.2002 |
| Gewicht: | 0,998 kg |
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