Rediscovering Europe’s Lost Revolution. Review of Socialism Across the Iron Curtain: Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945 by Jan De Graaf (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Gerd-Rainer Horn (1)

1 CHSP - Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po (Sciences Po)

Cold War stereotypes have blocked our understanding of European politics after 1945. On both sides of the future Iron Curtain, liberation from Nazism unleashed a spirit of radical democracy that might have led Europe down a very different path if not for superpower intervention. [introduction]

Domaines: Histoire

Gerd-Rainer Horn. Rediscovering Europe’s Lost Revolution. Review of Socialism Across the Iron Curtain: Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945 by Jan De Graaf (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Jacobin, 2021. ⟨hal-03856252⟩