National Communism in Western Europe
Author: Howard Machin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780416734409
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Author: Howard Machin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780416734409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christiane Lemke
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780822311973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis" of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions. The collection begins with an historical overview of socialism in Western Europe and moves toward the suggestion of a framework for a post-socialist discourse. Among the topics covered are: the birth and death of communism and a regime type in Eastern Europe; how different forms of national communism were smothered by Sovietization in the postwar period; the origins of revolutions in Eastern Europe; the potential for social democracy in Hungary; the role of the Left in a reunified German; and directions for the Left in general. Contributors. Geoff Eley, Konrad Jarausch, Herbert Kitschelt, Christiane Lemke, Andrei Markovits, Gary Marks, Wolfgang Merkel, Norman Naimark, Iván and Szonja Szelénya, Sharon Wolchik
Author: David Albright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0429726929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopments of the 1970s suggest the need for a new approach to the analysis of communism in Western Europe. During the early years after World War II, Western observers tended to look upon the West European Communist parties as fundamentally an extension of communism in the USSR-as national only in the narrow, formal sense. With the growing signs
Author: Peter Zwick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0429725086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to the generally accepted view that nationalism is alien to communism and that internationalism disallows divisions based on nations, the existence of national communism is often interpreted as a sign of the breakup of the world communist movement. This book reexamines the evidence on the role of nations and national variations, beginning with Marx and moving through Leninism and Stalinism to Titoism, Maoism, Castroism, and current national liberation movements (e.g., in Nicaragua). Professor Zwick concludes that nationalism has always been an inherent element of communism. He demonstrates with numerous concrete cases that, rather than signaling the decline of communism, national adaptation is the source of its strength. The limits of national variation as defined by the Brezhnev Doctrine are precisely defined and examined in the cases of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The book bridges the gap between Marxist theory and communist practice with respect to the central role that nationalism will continue to play in the contemporary world. No other study presents this material in a cross-national, comparative perspective.
Author: Paul E. Zinner
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 563
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Middlemas
Publisher: Deutsch
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEfter en indledning om Kominternperioden (Den Kommunistiske Internationale) koncentrerer forfatteren sig om udviklingen inden for de vesteuropæiske kommunistpartier efter 2. Verdenskrig. Der er separate kapitler om udviklingen inden for kommunistpartierne i Frankrig, Italien, Spanien og Portugal på grundlag af mange kilder og interviews med partimedlemmer m.v.
Author: Michael Arthur Ledeen
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781412841290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great vogue of Eurocommunism came to an end with the return of the French and Italian Communist Parties to positions of opposition to authority in the late 1970's, and the electoral confirmation that Spain's Communist Party would remain small. As the vogue of communism with a human face passed. The question of American policy toward Communists became far less pressing; yet the question will almost certainly require attention in the future. This is particularly true with respect to the Italian Communist Party, which remains powerful in numbers and flexible in policy. Michael Ledeen examines Communist Party participation in Western European governments since World War II, and the ambivalent American foreign policy toward it. He concentrates on the Italian Communist Party: its history and its relations with the Soviet Union. Togliatti, Secchia, Gramsci, Nenni are identified as the major players in Italian communist and socialist politics. The author explores in depth why the United States has been reluctant to become involved in internal Italian affairs, and how this policy posture has strongly influenced in the development of communism in Western Europe. Ledeen shows that the strategies of contemporary West European Communist Parties are now roughly similar to those of the immediate post-war period. He argues that American intellectuals are as uncritical of Eurocommunism as they were after the first flush of Allied victory in World War II, that the Carter administration's foreign policy was incoherent, and that the United States needs a consistent, ideological approach to communism--one that includes the capacity for action as well as reaction. Michael Ledeen is a senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, and formerly taught history at Washington University. He was the founding editor of The Washington Quarterly, and is the author of, among other works, Grave New World; The First Duce: D'Annunzio at Fiume; and editor of U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy.
Author: Harold Gordon Skilling
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn nine studies which make up this book Professor Skilling analyses the development of the communist systems in the various countries of Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on developments following the 22nd Congress in 1961.
Author: Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780714653082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles that comprise this collection constitute an evaluation of overt and covert influences on political and cultural activity in Western European democracies during the earliest period of the Cold War.
Author: R Neal Tannahill
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978-12-04
Total Pages: 328
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