The political performance of The European Left after World War
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European political thought, European left, socialist parties in Europe, European liberalismAbstract
The research aimed to know the performance of the European left, when it confronted the conservative right-wing regimes holding power in Europe, and then performance when taking power after the defeat of the right-wing regimes in World War I, in light of its oscillation between the communist model and the liberal model. The importance of the research is to compare the state of the European left before taking power, and after it in terms of the extent of its commitment to democracy and freedom in the case of the Nazi German Socialist Party, the Italian Fascist Party of socialist origins (the Italian Peasant Revolutionary Party), and the Soviet Communist Party. The research concluded in some of its conclusions that the European left in the years of the Cold War was an arena of conflict between the Soviet influence (the Communist Party) and the American influence (American liberalism). Each of these two influences tried to attract the European left to its side, which led to an unbalanced political performance that touched in some of its policies the thought of the conservative right, and in another case tried to find harmony between it and the right due to the necessities imposed by the European reality, which, just as the conservative right rejected, rejected the model of the left in terms of causing a decline in European influence globally, and causing a problem in the European societal structure due to the influence of external migrations.
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