Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249).
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Radical left in Britain, 1931-1941.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communism-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
Communism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Fascism & Totalitarianism.