| European Communism Since 1989: Towards a New European Left? 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312229399 ISBN-13: 9780312229399 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2000 Annotation: West European social democracy has started to face growing electoral challenge from a new European left--regaining and expanding a political space occupied previously by communist parties. This book argues that no analysis of the pattern of European politics into the new millennium can be complete without taking this developing force into account. It charts the re-emergence and transformation of communist and former communist parties in Europe since 1989. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 335.430 |
| LCCN: 99042144 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.77" W x 8.86" (1.10 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The conventional wisdom after 1989 was that socialism was finished. Communist parties were ejected from power across eastern Europe, west European social democratic parties embraced neo-liberalism, and intellectuals wrote of the definitive victory of capitalism and even of the end of history' . A decade or so later things look rather different: the most serious crisis in the world economy since the Second World War has occurred; the experiment of free market economics in Russia has resulted in economic collapse; communist parties and their successors have gained significant electoral support in the former Soviet Union and most of eastern Europe; as in western Europe, social democracy has started to face a growing electoral challenge from a new European left - regaining and expanding a political space occupied previously by communist parties. This book argues that no analysis of the pattern of European politics, into the new millennium, can be complete without taking this developing force into account. |