EAN: 9783319771960

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE CHANGE OF ECONOMIC ELI...

This book explores the changing nature of social movements and economic elites in post-Second
World War Europe. In the years following 1945  Europe faced diverse challenges connected by the
overriding question of how the reconstruction of the continent should proceed. For the Central
Powers  the implementation lay in the hands of the Allied occupying forces who organised the
process of denazification and the establishment of a new economic order. In countries without
military occupation  there was a deep gap between the new governmental forces and the former
collaborators. In both cases  social movements which were formed by anti-fascists on the left
of the political spectrum assumed the task of social reorganisation. The chapters in this book
explore the discourses about economic systems and their elites which moved to the fore across a
range of European countries  uncovering who was involved  what resistance these social
movements faced and how these ultimately failed in the West to bring about change  while in
Eastern Europe Stalinism forcibly imposed change.

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