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008			180827s2018 nyu 000 0 eng
020			_a9781108425087 (hardback)
020			_a9781108441179 (paperback)
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082	0	0	_a335.094/0904 _223 _bG727
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100	1		_aGraaf, Jan de, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSocialism across the iron curtain : _bsocialist parties in East and West and the reconstruction of Europe after 1945 / _cJan De Graaf, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
263			_a1811
264		1	_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_a320 pages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNew studies in European history
520			_a"This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the ways in which the French, Italian and Polish Socialist Parties and the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party dealt with the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction. Drawing on archival documents in seven languages, De Graaf reveals the profound divide which existed in all four countries between socialist elites and their grassroots as workers reacted hostilely to calls for industrial discipline and for further sacrifices towards the reconstruction effort. He also provides a fresh interpretation of the political weaknesses of socialist parties in post-war continental Europe by stressing the importance of political history and social structure. By placing the attitudes of the continental socialist parties in their proper socio-historical context he highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the two putative blocs"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"This book could not have been realised without the generous support of various research institutes and funding organisations. First and foremost, I want to thank the Centre for International and European Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth for providing me with a three-year PhD fellowship in 2011. I am also grateful to the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Society for the Study of French History, and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for making possible archival sojourns in Poland, France, and the Czech Republic respectively. On a more general level, I would like to express my gratitude to all the staff in the various archives that I visited and to Michael Watson and Elizabeth Friend-Smith at Cambridge University Press"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSocialism _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSocialist parties _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / General. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aEurope, Eastern _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aEurope, Western _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
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