Lost and Familiar Worlds of Socialism
A new history of early socialists in Bulgaria documents how many problems of the movement reach across the generations.
Maria Todorova’s study of how socialism was understood and experienced at the time of the Second International reconstructs a complex and diverse movement in sharp, candid style. The ‘golden age’ of socialism after 1848 — so named for the extension in much of Europe of parliamentary democracy, enabling the creation of mass socialist parties — may be […]