The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement : Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945-1951 / by Ettore Costa.
Costa, Ettore., author
2018
HD4841-HD4854.2
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Title The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement : Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945-1951 / by Ettore Costa.
Author Costa, Ettore., author
Edition 1st ed. 2018.
ISBN 9783319773476
331977347X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77347-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XVIII, 333 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-77347-6 doi
Call Number HD4841-HD4854.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3609
Summary This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist International (International Socialist Conference and Comisco) supported cohabitation with pro-communist socialists and the USSR, but with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe it committed to militant anti-communism. Ambiguity between the Labour Party and Labour Government influenced British policy in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy and Poland, while the characterization and stereotypes of Eastern and Southern Europe shaped the language and actions of the British. Furthermore, the book shows how international contacts and the British and Swedish model encouraged the transition of socialist parties to responsible government parties fully embracing Western democracy and prepared the ideological revision of the 1950s.
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of social movements.
Available in Other Form 3319773461
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From the old International to the new internationalism (1940-45)
Chapter 3: Parties and people, the Labour Party and the international socialist network
Chapter 4: The Labour Party and Eastern Europe, social democracy behind the Iron Curtain
Chapter 5: The Institutional Development, from the International Socialist Conference to Comisco (1946-1948)
Chapter 6: The Labour Party and Italy, social democracy below the Olive Line
Chapter 7: 'The little Foreign Office of Transport House', British foreign policy and socialist internationalism
Chapter 8: The Rebirth of the Socialist International (1948-1951)
Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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