European Socialists Respond To Fascism

Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of WWII and beyond. Review: his book is a convincing indictment of the concessions all too often subliminally made to Comintern orthodoxy by much conventional history.

Roger Griffin, Labour History Review The strength of the book lies squarely on the intelligence of its comparative framework and it is, above all, for this reason that it should be required reading not only for all those who seek to understand the West European Left in the 1930s but also for all those interested in the more fruitful products of comparative history.

Donald Sassoon, Journal of Modern History