The Crisis of Socialism in Europe

This collection begins with a historical overview of socialism in Western Europe and moves toward the suggestion of a framework for a post-socialist discourse. Among other topics covered are the birth and death of communism as a regime type in Eastern Europe; how different forms of national communism were smothered by the Sovietization in the postwar period; the origins of recent revolutions in Eastern Europe; the potential of social democracy in Hungary; the role of the Left in a reunified Germany; and directions for the Left in general.