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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2013
1 For the evolution from ‘euphoria’ via ‘disillusionment’ to eventual ‘adaptation’ in some Western European socialist/social democratic parties between 1945–9, see: Orlow, Dietrich, Common Destiny: A Comparative History of the Dutch, German and French Social Democratic Parties, 1945–1969 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000), 44–64Google Scholar. For the high hopes and ensuing disenchantment within the post-war European Left more generally, see: Eley, Geoff, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 278–329Google Scholar.
2 The list of publications on American intervention in domestic political life in post-war Europe is endless. Suffice it here to mention just two accounts from the 1980s, which reiterate many cold war commonplaces on post-war Western European social democracy: Filippelli, Ronald, American Labor and Postwar Italy, 1943–1953: A Study in Cold War Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988)Google Scholar; Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, Unionsparteien, Sozialdemokratie und Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika 1945–1966 (Dusseldorf: Droste, 1983)Google Scholar.
3 See, for example: Révész, László, Die Liquidierung der Sozialdemokratie in Osteuropa (Berne: Verlag Schweizerisches Ost-Institut, 1971)Google Scholar.
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5 Good examples of this are the articles published in: Creuzberger, Stefan and Görtemaker, Manfred, eds, Gleichschaltung unter Stalin: Die Entwicklung der Parteien im östlichen Europa 1944–1948 (Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 2002)Google Scholar.
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19 With the archives in communist Eastern Europe sealed off, Healey, Denis's edited volume The Curtain Falls: The Story of the Socialists in Eastern Europe (London: Lincolns-Prager, 1951)Google Scholar remained the only source on the post-war Eastern European social democratic parties for decades. Containing articles written by exiled Czech, Hungarian and Polish social democrats, its contributors seem more interested in settling the score with their former pro-communist adversaries than discussing their own role in the demise of Eastern European social democracy.
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21 For a critical discussion of the ‘anomaly’ concept in relation to the post-war PSI see: Vodovar, Christine, ‘Il socialismo nella storiografia italiana e francese dell'ultimo decennio’, Ricerca di Storia Politica, 10, 2 (2007), 177–88Google Scholar.
