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Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of number books, including One Hundred Years of Socialism (IB Tauris, 1996), The Culture of the Europeans (Harper, 2006) and most recently The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism (Penguin, 2019).
The rise of the workers’ movement in twentieth century Europe transformed the lives of millions – but its momentum halted when it abandoned the goal of moving beyond capitalism and building a new world in its own image.