Two Red Flags

'Sure-footed and concise ... this book is excellent.' - The Lecturer

• 1 Before 1939 2 War and resistance: 1939–45 3 Social Democracy and West European recovery: 1945–58 4 The Stalinist model in Eastern Europe: 1945–61 5 Democratic Socialists, Communists and the New Left: 1956–68 6 The climax of European Social Democracy? 1969–82 7 The Soviet Empire: stagnation under Brezhnev, 1964–82 8 Democratic Socialism in retreat: 1982–92 9 Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Empire: 1982–92 10 Resurgence of Social Democracy in Western Europe, Notes