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100 1 _aIhalainen, Pasi
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245 1 0 _aThe Springs Of Democracy : National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919
260 _aHelsinki
_bFinnish Literature Society / SKS
_c2017
300 _a1 electronic resource (590 p.)
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520 _aDuring the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, restored parliamentary legitimacy, unlike in Germany, where Allied demands for democratisation made reform appear treasonous and fostered native German solutions. Sweden only adopted Western political models after major confrontations, but reforms saw it embark on its path to Social Democracy. In Finland, competing Russian revolutionary discourses and German- and Swedish-inspired appeals to legality brought about the deterioration of parliamentary legitimacy and a civil war. Only a republican compromise imposed by the Entente, following a royalist initiative in 1918, led to the construction of a viable polity.
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650 7 _aEuropean history
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650 7 _a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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650 7 _aPolitics & government
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650 7 _aPolitical science & theory
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650 7 _aPolitical ideologies
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653 _apolitical history
653 _arevolution
653 _areforms
653 _ademocracy
653 _aparliamentarism
653 _aeurope
653 _aBolsheviks
653 _aBourgeoisie
653 _aFinland
653 _aGermany
653 _aSocial democracy
653 _aSweden
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