William "Bill" Smaldone (born 1958) is the E. J. Whipple Professor of European history at

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Education and career

Bill Smaldone received his Bachelor of Science (1980) and Master of Arts (1983) degrees from the

State University of New York at Brockport State University of New York Brockport (also known as SUNY Brockport or Brockport State, and previously The College at Brockport) is a public university in Brockport, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY). History ...

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''Marion County Voter Pamphlet''. Salem: Marion County, November 3, 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from

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. From 1989-1991, following the completion of his Ph.D., Smaldone took up an academic post as a visiting professor at Rampo College in New Jersey. In 1991, he moved to Salem, Oregon and joined the history department faculty at Willamette University.
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Public service

In the mid-1990s, he initially became active in

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's local politics as a member of the

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and in 1998 was elected to the Salem City Council where he served on the Budget Committee and numerous commissions. In 2001, Smaldone served as Council President until his re-election bid loss to Jim Randell in 2002. Smaldone attributes the defeat to old-fashioned "red-baiting" tactics reminiscent of

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America by stating, "Jim Randall and his allies knew that anti-socialist rhetoric still resonated with a large part of the populace. Using that theme, they succeeded in mobilizing their supporters more effectively than we did ours."

Published works

Academic books

*Smaldone, William (2008). ''Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933''. Lexington Books. December 2008. *Smaldone, William (1998). ''Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat''. Northern Illinois University Press. July 1998. Chris Harman, Review: On William Smaldone's Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat and F. Peter Wagner's Rudolf Hilferding: The Theory and Politics of Democratic Socialism, Historical Materialism, 12, no. 3 (2004): 315-331

Academic articles

*(2010) Smaldone, William. "Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond." ''Against the Current'', January/February, No. 144. *(2007) Smaldone, William. "Socialist Paths in a Capitalist Conundrum: Reconsidering the German Catastrophe of 1933." ''Journal of World History'' 18.3: 297-323. Print. *(2007) Smaldone, William. "German Social Democracy in the Great Coalition." ''Against the Current'', May/June, No. 128. *(2004) Smaldone, William. "German Social Democracy in Crisis." ''Against the Current'', September/October, No. 112. *(2002) Smaldone, William. "Friedrich Stampfer and the Fall of the Weimar Republic." ''The Historian'' 64.3/4: 687-703. Web. *(2000) Smaldone, William. "Facing Fascism in Europe." ''Against the Current'', January/February, No. 84. Print.

References

External links

Willamette Interview with Bill Smaldone
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