Common Destiny : : A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969 / / Dietrich Orlow.

• VerfasserIn: Orlow, Dietrich,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Although the Socialist or Social Democractic parties played a key role in West European politics during the quarter century after the Second World War, they have been studied far less than their political rivals, the Christian Democrats. The story of West European Social Democracy after 1945 begins...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Parallel Pasts: Founding to 1945
• 2. The Making of a Tertiary Industrial Society, 1945–1969
• 3. Euphoria, Disillusionment, and Adaptation, 1945–1949
• 4. Parties in Flux, 1946–1957
• 5. Domestic Affairs, 1945–1955
• 6. Foreign Relations, 1945–1955
• 7. The End of the Long Decade: Crisis and Response, 1955–1961
• 8. The Troubled 1960s
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index