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04199aam a2200517 i 4500 001 21C98480083F11EABF3FA51A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191116010051 008 180827t20192019enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018038869 020 $a 1108441173 020 $a 9781108441179 020 $a 1108425089 020 $a 9781108425087 035 $a (OCoLC)1039921796 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ew----- $a ee----- $a ew----- 050 00 $a HX238.5 $b .G724 2019 084 $a HIS010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Graaf, Jan de, $e author. 245 10 $a Socialism across the Iron Curtain : $b socialist parties in East and West and the reconstruction of Europe after 1945 / $c Jan De Graaf, KU Leuven, Belgium. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xii, 320 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New studies in European history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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"-- $c Provided 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. The national road to socialism; 2. Bread, butter and egalitarianism; 3. Discipline, sacrifice, and production; 4. The morale of the story; 5. The lessons of the past; 6. Elections, parliaments, and constitutions; 7. Democracy from below; 8.The international road to socialism. 650 0 $a Socialism $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Socialist parties $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Europe, Western $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Socialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123637 650 7 $a Socialist parties. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123730 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 651 7 $a Europe, Eastern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245079 651 7 $a Europe, Western. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01272478 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a New studies in European history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021012824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=21C98480083F11EABF3FA51A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search