Vladimir Akimov on the Dilemmas of Russian Marxism, 1895-1903: The Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; A Short History of the Social Democratic Movement in Russia. Two texts in translation, edited and introduced by Jonathan Frankel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. x, 390 pp. $10.00.

Slavic Review ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-146
Author(s):  
Israel Getzler
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
Short History ◽  
Democratic Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The “Impossibilist Revolt” in Britain

1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chushichi Tsuzuki
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Revolutionary Party ◽  
History Of ◽  
Revolutionary Movements

The Socialist Labour Party and the Socialist Party of Great Britain came into existence as the result of the “impossibilist revolt” of 1900–1904. The “revolt” was a movement of a few hundred socialists within the Social Democratic Federation, itself a social revolutionary party with a membership of only a few thousands. The absence of widespread support for any of these revolutionary movements in a country whose political tradition has remained predominantly constitutional accounts for the fact that the crisis inside the S.D.F., and with it the origins of the S.L.P. and the S.P.G.B. themselves have been consigned to obscurity in the history of British Socialism.

The Role of the Hospital in the Health Policy of the German Social Democratic Movement before World War I

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-294
Author(s):  
Alfons Labisch
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
World War I ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Hospital Policy ◽  
Democratic Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

In this article, the author aims to contrast the traditional architecture-oriented history of hospitals with an empirical sociohistorical approach. The main topic discussed is the hospital's role in health policy as seen by German Social Democrats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Social democratic hospital policy developed as a compromise between two extreme positions: the party theoretician's abstract ideals on the one side and the rank and file's pragmatic view on the other. Thus, the social history of the hospital can illustrate how, around the turn of the century, the political labor movement in Germany shifted from radical revolutionary aims to pragmatic social reform in everyday political practice. At the same time, the hospital underwent a fundamental social change from a charity institution to a municipal center of modern medical care. This implies that any static or one-sided interpretation of the hospital's history and sociology is inadequate: its social role constantly changes according to broader social change and different interests of social groups and organizations. As for the social history of medicine in general, modern medicine's development can not be adequately understood from the narrow perspective of medical institutions themselves. It has to be seen in the broader context of socioeconomic and sociocultural development.

Fostering peace through dialogue The international social democratic movement and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-177
Author(s):  
Pentti Väänänen
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Democratic Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Willy Brandt ◽  
Democratic Parties ◽  
Global Affairs

The Socialist International (SI), the worldwide forum of the socialist, social democratic, and labor parties, actively looked for a solution to the Jewish-Palestinian conflict in the 1980s. At that time, the Israeli Labour Party still was the leading political force in Israel, as it had been historically since the foundation of the country. The Labour Party was also an active member of the SI. The Party’s leader, Shimon Peres, was one of its vice-presidents. At the same time, the social democratic parties were the leading political force in Western Europe. Several important European leaders, many of them presidents and prime ministers, were involved in the SI’s work. They included personalities such as Willy Brandt of Germany; former president of the SI, Francois Mitterrand of France; James Callaghan of Great Britain; Bruno Kreisky of Austria; Bettini Craxi of Italy; Felipe Gonzalez of Spain; Mario Soares of Portugal; Joop de Uyl of the Netherlands; Olof Palme of Sweden; Kalevi Sorsa of Finland; Anker Jörgensen of Denmark; and Gro Harlem Brudtland of Norway—all of whom are former vice-presidents of the SI. As a result, in the 1980s, the SI in many ways represented Europe in global affairs, despite the existence of the European Community (which did not yet have well-defined common foreign policy objectives).

A Short History of the Labour Party

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair J. Reid ◽  
Henry Pelling
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of
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