Primacy of Politics Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century

Name: Primacy of Politics Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780521521109

ISBN-10: 0521521106

ISBN-13: 9780521521109

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sheri Berman

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Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second…

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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Sheri Berman is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Background and the Foundations



Democratic Revisionism Comes of Age



Revolutionary Revisionism and the Merging of Nationalism and Socialism



From Revisionism to Social Democracy



The Rise of Fascism and National Socialism



The Swedish Exception



The Postwar Era



Conclusion


Index