Biblioteca / 2010-2019
William Smaldone. European Socialism. A Concise History with Documents.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
xv, 345 páginas.
Contents
1 – Introduction
Socialism and the Legacy of the French Revolution
2 – Socialist Ideals and Imaginings, 1789-1830
Babeuf and the Critique of Private Property
Paine, Condorcet, and the Search for Social Security
Limits to Radical Change
Industrialization and Its Early Critics
Document 2.1. Analysis of the Doctrine of Babeuf (1796)
Document 2.2. The Progress of the Human Mind: The Tenth Stage (1793)
Document 2.3. Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries (1803)
Document 2.4. Degradation of Women in Civilization
Document 2.5. An Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark (1816)
3 – Socialist Ideology amid Reform and Revolution, 1830-1870
The Rise of Chartism in Britain
The Revolution of 1830 and the Emergence of French Socialism
Marx, Engels, and the Communist Manifesto
The Revolution of 1848
From Repression to Renewal: Founding the International Working Men’s Association
Document 3.1. Letter from Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
Document 3.2. Karl Marx to Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Document 3.3. Proudhon’s Reply to Marx
Document 3.4. The Organization of Labor (1840)
Document 3.5. A Program for Revolution: The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Document 3.6. General Rules of the International Working Men’s Association (1864)
4 – Socialism in the Era of Mass Politics, 1870-1914
“Storming Heaven”: The Paris Commune
The Rise of German Socialism
The Collapse of the Workingmen’s International
Russia and the Prospects for Socialism
Parliamentary Politics and the Growth of the Socialist Movement
The Second International and Its Constituents
Reform or Revolution?
Document 4.1. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1877)
Document 4.2. Women in the Future (1879)
Document 4.3. Evolutionary Socialism (1899)
Document 4.4. Reform or Revolution (1900)
Document 4.5. What Is to Be Done? (1902)
Document 4.6. The Internationale (1871)
5 – The Birth of Communism and the Transformation of Socialism, 1914-1945
World War I and the Collapse of the Second International
The Russia Revolutions of 1917
Revolutionary Change and the Coming of Civil War
Revolution and Counterrevolution in the West
NEP Russia and the Coming of Stalin’s Revolution
Parliamentary Socialism: Recovery and Crisis
Alternative Socialist Strategies: Belgium and Sweden
The Hitler-Stalin Pact and the Coming of World War II
Document 5.1. State and Revolution (1917)
Document 5.2. The Transformation of Politics (1922)
Document 5.3. Stalin’s Revolution (1929)
6 – Socialism and Communism during the Cold War, 1945-1991
The Division of Europe
Postwar Social Democracy
Khrushchev and the Critique of Stalinism
The Transformation of Social Democracy
The Failure of Reform in Eastern Europe
Western Socialism on the Defensive: The New Social Movements and the Rise of Neoliberalism
From Brezhnev to Gorbachev: Crisis and Reform in the USSR
The End of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Document 6.1. Why Socialism? (1949)
Document 6.2. “Women: The Longest Revolution” (1966)
Document 6.3. Perestroika (1987)
7 – Epilogue: The Retreat and Reemergence of Socialism, 1991 to the Present
The Crisis of Socialist Identity
The “Third Way” in Practice: Britain and Germany
Finding Their Niche: Former Communist Parties and Parties of the “Far Left”
Moving Left: Socialist Responses to Crisis of 2008
Socialism: Past and Future
Document 7.1. Political Action Programme of the Party of the European Left 2011-2013
Document 7.2. Party of European Socialism Declaration of Principles
Further Reading