European Communism Since 1989: Towards a New European Left?

by Kate Hudson

Book Overview

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 the pre-eminence of the United States in a new uni-polar world order. Ten years later things look different: economic crisis has hit the world economy, communist parties and their successors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349415987
• ISBN13: 9781349415984
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"