Introduction: The Practice of Socialist Internationalism
1: International Socialism at War, 1914-1918
2: Reconstituting the International, 1918-1923
3: European Socialists and the International Order, 1918-1925
4: The Quest for Disarmament, 1925-1933
5: European Socialists and Empire between the Wars
Entr'acte: Socialist Internationalism during the 1930s
6: Reconstituting the International, 1940-1951
7: Constructing Europe, 1945-1960
8: The Cold War and European Security, 1950-1960
9: The Stakes of Decolonization, 1945-1960
Conclusion
Talbot Imlay teaches in the history department at the Université
Laval in Québec, Canada. He is the author of Facing the Second
World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France
1938-1940 (2003) and co-editor with Monica Duffy Toft of Fog of
Peace and War Planning (2006). With Martin Horn he has just
finished a book entitled The Politics of Industrial Collaboration:
Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany during the
Second World War.
By virtue of his archival research in twelve countries he has
succeeded in producing an essential starting point for future
students of these subjects who can regard this book as a reliable
guide to the exchange of views between the parties concerned on
many of the big issues of the period, such as the 1919 peace
settlement, the Ruhr crisis of 1923, the Dawes Plan, European
security, Imperialism and decolonization, European unity and the
Cold War.
*John Callaghan, Journal of Modern History*
The book thus forms a new standard work on socialist
internationalism and will prove important in re-assessing the role
of international socialism, and internationalism more generally, in
the forging of European international politics.
*Kasper Braskén, European History Quarterly*
This study -- supported by the author's extraordinary command of
the literature and primary materials, and his sharp and persistent
focus on key themes of socialism, internationalism, and
international politics -- concentrates on the British Labour Party
and the German and French socialist parties. Revival of
international contacts during this war, bitter divisions on the
Left in its aftermath, and the defection of many socialists to
communism led socialists to renew international commitment and
organization in the early 1920s. The account of this renewal is a
particularly significant contribution, as is the discussion of
socialist internationalism after 1945 and through the 1950s.
Remarkable throughout is the relevant documentation, especially
from volumes of correspondence archived in 12 countries ... Highly
recommended.
*CHOICE*
Talbot C. Imlay's The Practice of Socialist Internationalism is a
reminder of the need to think about internationalism in the plural,
and the fact that capturing this pluralism requires crossing
national and historiographical borders. Based on dazzling archival
research in a dozen countries, the book draws from personal papers
and party collections from Ottawa to Oslo and across Europe. The
historiographical treatment is also wideranging, as is the thematic
range. This means that the book can be read in a number of
ways.
*Elidor Mehilli, Hunter College, City University of New York,
History: The Journal of the Historical Association*
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