This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism
challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of
post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the
ways in which the French, Italian and Polish socialist parties and
the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party dealt with the problems
of socio-economic and political reconstruction. Drawing on archival
documents in seven languages, De Graaf reveals the profound divide
which existed in all four countries between socialist elites and
their grassroots as workers reacted hostilely to calls for
industrial discipline and for further sacrifices towards the
reconstruction effort. He also provides a fresh interpretation of
the political weaknesses of socialist parties in post-war
continental Europe by stressing the importance of political history
and social structure. By placing the attitudes of the continental
socialist parties in their proper socio-historical context he
highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the
two putative blocs.
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