CONTENTS // Lubomír KopeCek // Preface: Political Left in Contemporary Europe Ondrej Císar // The Left in the Beginning of the 2 l“ Century ... // 11 // FIRST SECTION: WESTERN EUROPE // Vít Hloušek // Austrian Social Democracy - Tradition and Adaptation to Changed Role on the Threshold of the Third Millennium.29 // Soren RlISHOJ // Danish Social Democrats - // “traditionalists” versus “modernizers”...58 // Michel Perottino // Change and Continuity of the French Communist Party...68 // Stathis Kalyvas, Nikos Marantzidis // Communism Dualism: The Greek Communist Parties // after the Collapse of Communism...81 // SECOND SECTION: CENTRAL-EAST EUROPE // Lubomír Kopecek // Comparison of Left Parties in Central Europe. // Some Causes of Different Successfulness ...109 // 5 // Leszek Skiba // The People, the Programme and the Governments // of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)...118 // Miroslav Mareš Reformists versus Dogmatists. // The Analysis of the Internal Party Conflict inside the KSCM... 130 Stanislav Balík // Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia // and its Attitude towards own History...140 // Ladislav Cabada // Slovenian United List of Social Democrats - // Post-Communist or/and Post-modern Political Party?...150 // Juraj Marušiak // Smer - From Pragmatism to Social Democracy? // Seeking Identity...165 // Contributors...179 // 6 // b . ? . ... . •