Introduction -- 1. Reconstructing Sociology -- 2. The Marxist Orbit: Polanyi's Double Movement -- 3. Capital versus the Demos -- 4. Democratic Tyranny: The Soviet Union -- 5. Reconstructing 'The Great Transformation' -- 6. Regionalism and the European Union -- 7. Intellectuals and the Red Scare...

Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism