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UNINA9910450963303321 |
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Jupp James. |
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Titolo |
The radical left in Britain, 1931-1941 / / James Jupp |
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London : , : Cass, , 1982 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-78087-0 |
1-280-14039-9 |
0-203-98810-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Radicalism - Great Britain - History |
Political parties - Great Britain - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Origins of the Left; The Depression: 1931-1934; A Sectarian Left; The United Front From Below; The Reaction Against Hitler; The Spread of Fascism: 1934-37; The Recovery of the Communist Party; Towards the Popular Front; Appeasement and the War; A Communist-Led Left; From Unity Campaign to Peoples Convention; The Ideology of the Left; Revolution, Reform and Democracy; The Role of the Labour Party; The Future Society; Attitudes to War and Foreign Policy; The Anatomy of the Left; Forty Years On; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The past ten years have seen a revival of interest in the recent history of the British labour movement, and particularly in the alleged 'lost opportunity'for a British revolution at some stage between 1900 and 1926. What is attempted here is a reassessment of the radical politics of the 1930's, a decade also mythologized in the recent past as one in which British intellectuals were either 'fellow-travelling' with Stalin or 'moving towards Marxism', depending on your point of view. My concern is not centrally with those poets, writers and scientists whose memoirs of the 'RedThirties' are readily avai |
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