Horn, Gerd-Rainer. (2001) From ‘radical’ to ‘realistic’: Hendrik de Man and the International Plan Conferences at Pontigny and Geneva, 1934–1937. Contemporary European History, 10 (2). pp. 239-265. ISSN 0960-7773

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

When at Christmas 1933 the Belgian Workers' Party adopted the Plan de Man to guide its forward march to socialism, European critics of unfettered capitalist development listened carefully. Deeply worried by Hitler's legal rise to power, socialist activists and intellectuals were then searching for new answers to the crises of their day, and many believed that they had found a blueprint in the Plan. Inspired by the activist politician Hendrik de Man, a series of international plan conferences, assembling the entire spectrum of western European pro-socialist, non-Stalinist economists, met between September 1934 and October 1937. The changing nature of these debates exemplify the fate of European socialism in the mid-1930s, descending from optimistic belief in a democratic socialist future towards technocratic pragmatism in the space of thirty-seven months.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Contemporary European History
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0960-7773
Date:	July 2001
Volume:	10
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 239-265
Identification Number:	10.1017/S0960777301002041
Status:	Peer Reviewed
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/35259

Request changes to a record

Actions (login required)

View Item