William T. Smaldone

Biography

Professor Smaldone's research focuses on twentieth century German and European labor history. His Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (1998) examines the life of one of German social democracy's leading economic and political thinkers from the turn of the century until the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933. His second book, Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933 (2009), treats the failure of Germany's Social Democratic leadership in its struggle against Adolf Hitler's National Socialist movement. In 2013 he published European Socialism: A Concise History. With Mark Blum of the University of Kentucky, Louisville, his most recent project has been to translate and edit a two-volume collection of documents on Austro-Marxism, an important current of European socialist thought in the first half of the twentieth century. The first volume of Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity appeared in the fall of 2015. He received B.S. from State University of New York College at Brockport, M.A. From State University of New York College at Brockport and Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton

Research Interest

 German and Russian history, Latin American history, urban history, and the Holocaust.