The French Socialists in Power, 1981-1986

by Patrick McCarthy

In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. The only full-length study of the subject yet written, this book looks at the realities beyond the rhetoric--how the Left came to power, what the Socialists achieved in the way of social change, where they failed to diverge from policies associated with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313254079
• ISBN13: 9780313254079
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"