TY - BOOK AU - Sassoon, Donald TI - One hundred years of socialism: The West European left in the twentieth century SN - 9781848852976 U1 - 320.531 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - I.B.Tauris KW - Socialist parties -- Europe -- History -- 20th century KW - Socialism -- Europe -- 20th century KW - Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century N1 - Preface to the New Edition -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Ackowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- BOOK ONE -- EXPANSION -- PART ONE: The Hard Road to Political Power -- 1. The Establishment of Socialism Before 1914 -- 2. From War to War (1914-40) -- The War -- The Birth of Modern Communism -- The Socialists: Nordic Success and Spanish Failure -- The German Social Democrats -- The Popular Front in France -- The Failure of the British Labour Party -- 3. Thwarted Alternatives -- The 'Neo-Socialist' Planners -- Austro-Marxism and Otto Bauer. Italian Communism and Gramsci -- 4. The War, Resistance and Its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939-48 -- BOOK TWO -- CONSOLIDATION -- PART TWO: The Construction of Welfare Socialism 1945-50 -- 5. The Socialists After 1945 -- 6. Building Social Capitalism 1945-50 -- The Welfare State -- Controlling Capitalism: Nationalization and Economic Planning -- 7. External Constraints: A Socialist Foreign Policy? -- PART THREE: Towards Revisionism 1950-60 -- 8. The Golden Age of Capitalism -- 9. Between Neutralism and Atlanticism -- 10. The Foundations of Revisionism. PART FOUR: The Perplexing Sixties: 'Something in the Air' -- 11. The Return of the Left -- Prosperity -- Elections -- Opposition -- In Power -- 12. The Establishment of a Foreign Policy Consensus -- PART FIVE: The Great Contestation -- 13. The Revival of Working-class Militancy 1960-73 -- 14. The Revival of Ideology and the Student Contestation -- 15. The Revival of Feminism -- BOOK THREE -- CRISIS -- PART SIX: The End of the Great Capitalist Boom 1973-89 -- 16. The Crisis and the Left: An Overview -- The End of the Golden Age of Capitalism -- The Vicissitudes of the Left. 17. Social Democracy in Small Countries: Austria, Sweden, Holland and Belgium -- Austria -- Sweden -- Holland -- Belgium -- 18. Germany and Britain: SPD and Labour in Power -- 19. The French Experiment -- 20. The Failure of Italian Communism -- 21. The End of Authoritarian Regimes in Western Europe: Portugal, Spain and Greece -- Economic Preconditions -- The Revolucao in Portugal -- The Ruptura Negociada in Spain -- The Greek Allaghi -- PART SEVEN: The Great Crisis of Socialism -- 22. Workers, Women and Greens -- Only the Workers? -- Fewer Workers -- Working Women -- Sex Equality. The 'New Politics' -- The Greens -- The Presence of Women -- 23. The 1980s: Radicalism in its Last Redoubt -- Rise and Fall of the Labour Party Left -- The Swedish Wage-earners Funds -- The New Politics of the SPD -- 24. The New Revisionism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -