It didn't happen here : why socialism failed in the United States /

Lipset, Seymour Martin.

It didn't happen here : why socialism failed in the United States / Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2000. - 379 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-359) and index.

An exceptional nation -- The American party system -- The split between unions and the socialist party -- Immigrants and socialism : double-edged effects -- Sectarians vs. reformists : were socialists undermined by their own strategy? -- Socialist sectarianism and communist opportunism in the thirties -- Political repression and socialism -- The end of political exceptionalism?

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Socialism--History.--United States
Socialismo--Historia.--Estados Unidos

HX 83 / L767i 2000

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