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File Size | 3.0 MB
Pages | 721
Language | English
Category | Europe
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Description: Neither given
nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and
challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley
convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural
consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold
War.
Rather, it was
painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying
constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements
that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left
championed democracy in the revolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it
against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945.
They organized
civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber
of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European
democracy and the history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound
together.
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Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
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