Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Parallel Pasts: Founding to 1945
Chapter 2. The Making of a Tertiary Industrial Society, 1945–1969
Chapter 3. Euphoria, Disillusionment, and Adaptation, 1945–1949
Chapter 4. Parties in Flux, 1946–1957
Chapter 5. Domestic Affairs, 1945–1955
Chapter 6. Foreign Relations, 1945–1955
Chapter 7. The End of the Long Decade: Crisis and Response, 1955–1961
Chapter 8. The Troubled 1960s

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dietrich Orlow has been teaching at Boston University since 1971. A specialist in contemporary European history, he is the author of histories of the Nazi Party and the politics of Weimar Prussia.

Reviews

"The book draws on a very wide range of archives ... offering a very wide range of specific insights and bringing out the complexities behind any simple story about the development of social democracy."  · Journal of Modern History "... a solid work of scholarship and analysis. The book is an authoritative account of a significant component of cold war European political history."   · The International History Review "Dietrich Orlow succeeds admirably to link the different experiences of the three social democratic parties and relate their developments to each other ... obligatory reading for the comparative history of European social democratic parties."  · Archiv für Sozialgeschichte Online "A well researched, very well written, reflective and splendid comparative study."  · Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College