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the Burgess Programme, headed for the French Embassy in London by
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This edition (revised and updated from the French original)
first published by Verso 2002

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Translation © Gregory Elliott 2001

First published as La social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours

© Montchrestien, E.J.A. 1994

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