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Author Jørgensen, Thomas Ekman.

Title Transformation and crises : the Left and the nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980 / Thomas Ekman Jørgensen
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series Protest, culture and society ; v. 2
Protest, culture and society ; v. 2.
Contents Title page-Transformations and Crises; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-Communist Concepts in Crisis; Chapter 2-Adaptation and innovation; Chapter 3-Contesting Pragmatism; Chapter 4-Turning inwards; Chapter 5-The end of the road; Chapter 6-Summary. conclusions and outlook; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Left in the 1960s and 1970s has a powerful, almost mythical, place in the history of the 20th century. It was during these decades that the radical Left managed to renew the language of socialism as an alternative to communism and liberalism alike, but also when radicalism often led to extremism and social movements turned into political sects. Focusing on the Left in Denmark and Sweden during those turbulent decades, this study pays close attention to the political language in the two countries and shows the constant challenge to the concepts of the Left in the face of rapid social, cultu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index
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Subject New Left -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century
New Left -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
New Left
<<Die>> Linke (Politik)
Politischer Wandel.
Denmark
Sweden
Dänemark.
Schweden.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008026629
ISBN 9781845458614
1845458613
1282627295
9781282627291
9786612627293
6612627298