Lost World of Socialists at Europe s Margins

Maria Todorova''s book is devoted to the ''golden age'' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the charact...