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FORGING DEMOCRACY: THE LEFT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE, 1850-2000
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| By: |
Geoff Eley |
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Paperback |
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£83.00 |
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£72.63 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195044797 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195044799 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
720 |
| Description: |
Geoff Eley's magnum opus, this book analyses the role the Left has played in establishing democracy in modern Europe. Eley looks at socialist, labour, feminist, Communist, and other organisations in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe. He considers how the Left has been a part of key moments of change in European history, including the rise of industrialisation, the World Wars, the Cold War, student uprisings in 1968, and theoverturn of Communist governments in Eastern Europe. |
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Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. 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 organised civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fibre 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. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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