Title Liberalism, fascism, or social democracy : social classes and the political origins of regimes in interwar Europe / Gregory M. Luebbert

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description xi, 416 pages ; 25 cm Contents The Origins -- Ties That Would Divide: Liberal-Labor Alliances in Britain, France, and Switzerland before the War -- Britain -- France -- Weakness of the Labor Movement in Britain and France -- Switzerland -- Cleavage Structures and the Failure of Liberal Movements in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Liberal Weakness: A Survey -- Some Explanations of Liberal Weakness -- Cleavage Structures and the Failure of Liberal Movements -- Modernization, Cleavages, and Political Struggles -- Where Backwardness Mattered -- The Break with Liberalism and the Formation of Working-Class Movements -- Abortive Lib-Labism and the Rise of Working-Class Movements -- Germany -- Norway -- Sweden -- Denmark -- Belgium and the Netherlands -- Italy -- Spain -- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Class Integration -- A Note on Leadership and Choice -- The Organization of Workers: Liberal and Aliberal Societies Compared -- Parties -- Trade Unions: Membership and Organizational Coherence -- A Note on Industrial Concentration -- A Note on the Role of the State -- Epilogue: Toward the Great War -- The Outcomes -- War, Crisis, and the Stabilization of the Liberal Order -- Postwar Crises and Liberal Responses -- The Defeat of the Working-Class Movement -- Stabilization of the Liberal Order -- Narrowing the Aliberal Outcomes: Liberalism's Final Failure and the Irrelevance of Traditional Dictatorship -- Neither Liberalism Nor Lib-Labism -- Politics against Markets -- Irrelevance of Traditional Dictatorship -- Social Democracy and Fascism Analysis Europe Politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-402) and index Subject Democracy -- History. Fascism -- Europe -- History. Labor movement -- Europe -- History. Liberalism -- Europe -- History. Social structure -- Europe -- History. Socialism -- Europe -- History. Socialism -- Europe. SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045747 Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045748 LC no. 90038754 ISBN 0195066103 0195066111 (paperback)

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