Download or read book A Strange Eventful History written by Edmund Dell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Blair's espousal of privatization before the 1997 General Election finally extinguished the life of socialism as a significant political force in this country. There have been many reasons - both philosophical and personal - for its demise, yet in the end socialism sickened and died because of its impracticability and the failures consequent thereon.