| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: Democracy in Europe | |
| I | Making Democracy Social | |
| 1 | Defining the Left: Socialism, Democracy, and the People | 17 |
| 2 | Marxism and the Left: Laying the Foundations | 33 |
| 3 | Industrialization and the Making of the Working Class | 47 |
| 4 | The Rise of Labor Movements: History's Forward March | 62 |
| 5 | Challenges beyond Socialism: Other Fronts of Democracy | 85 |
| 6 | The Permanence of Capitalism? | 109 |
| II | War and Revolution, 1914-1923 | |
| 7 | The Rupture of War: Crisis and Reconstruction of the Left, 1914-1917 | 123 |
| 8 | The Russian Revolution | 139 |
| 9 | Breaking the Mold of Socialism: Left-Wing Communism, 1917-1923 | 152 |
| 10 | Germany and Italy: Two Cases | 165 |
| 11 | Remolding Militancy: The Foundation of Communist Parties | 176 |
| 12 | The Politics of Gender: Women and the Left | 185 |
| 13 | Living the Future: The Left in Culture | 201 |
| 14 | Broadening the Boundaries of Democracy | 220 |
| III | Stabilization and the "War of Position" | |
| 15 | Capitalist Stabilities: Future Deferred | 235 |
| 16 | Stalinism and Western Marxism: Socialism in One Country | 249 |
| 17 | Fascism and Popular Front: The Politics of Retreat, 1930-1938 | 261 |
| 18 | People's War and People's Peace: Remarking the Nation, 1939-1947 | 278 |
| 19 | Closure: Stalinism, Welfare Capitalism, and Cold War, 1945-1956 | 299 |
| 20 | 1956 | 329 |
| IV | Future Imperfect | |
| 21 | 1968: It Moves After All | 341 |
| 22 | Feminism: Regendering the Left | 366 |
| 23 | Class and the Politics of Labor | 384 |
| 24 | New Politics, New Times: Remaking Socialism and Democracy | 405 |
| 25 | Gorbachev, the End of Communism, and the 1989 Revolutions | 429 |
| 26 | New Social Movements: Politics Out of Doors | 457 |
| 27 | The Center and the Margins: Decline or Renewal? | 470 |
| Conclusion | 491 |
| Notes | 505 |
| Bibliography | 593 |
| Index | 687 |
Format: Paperback, 720 pages
