Lubomír Kopeček : Preface: Political Left in Contemporary Europe Ondrej Císar // The Left in the Beginning of the 21st 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 Rishoj : 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 Kopeček : Comparison of Left Parties in Central Europe. /Some Causes of Different Successfulness ...109 // 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 KSČM ...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