The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945-1951 /

• Main Author: Costa, Ettore (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: Labor-History.; Great Britain-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; Social history.; Labor History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Modern Europe.; Political History.; Social History.

This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: From the old International to the new internationalism (1940-45)
• Chapter 3: Parties and people, the Labour Party and the international socialist network
• Chapter 4: The Labour Party and Eastern Europe, social democracy behind the Iron Curtain
• Chapter 5: The Institutional Development, from the International Socialist Conference to Comisco (1946-1948)
• Chapter 6: The Labour Party and Italy, social democracy below the Olive Line
• Chapter 7: 'The little Foreign Office of Transport House', British foreign policy and socialist internationalism
• Chapter 8: The Rebirth of the Socialist International (1948-1951)
• Chapter 9: Conclusion.