Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249).
Chapter 1 The Origins of the Left -- chapter 2 The Depression: 1931-1934 -- chapter 3 A Sectarian Left -- chapter 4 The United Front From Below -- chapter 5 The Reaction Against Hitler -- chapter 6 The Spread of Fascism: 1934-37 -- chapter 7 The Recovery of the Communist Party -- chapter 8 Towards the Popular Front -- chapter 9 Appeasement and the War -- chapter 10 A Communist-Led Left -- chapter 11 From Unity Campaign to Peoples Convention -- chapter 12 The Ideology of the Left -- chapter 13 Revolution, Reform and Democracy -- chapter 14 The Role of the Labour Party -- chapter 15 The Future Society -- chapter 16 Attitudes to War and Foreign Policy -- chapter 17 The Anatomy of the Left -- chapter 18 Forty Years On.
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The past ten years have seen a revival of interest in the recent history of theBritish labour movement, and particularly in the alleged 'lost opportunity'for a British revolution at some stage between 1900 and 1926. What isattempted here is a reassessment of the radical politics of the 1930s, adecade also mythologised in the recent past as one in which Britishintellectuals were either 'fellow-travelling' with Stalin or 'moving towardsMarxism', depending on your point of view. My concern is not centrallywith those poets, writers and scientists whose memoirs of the 'RedThirties' are readily avai.
Radical left in Britain, 1931-1941.
Communism-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
Communism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Fascism & Totalitarianism.