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Product Description: Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos - of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys - the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky...read more

Product Description: Communist attitudes to violence have varied according to whether a given party was in power or opposition, and on the wider context in which its adherents found themselves. For communists of the Comintern generation, it was forever framed within a Bolshevik-derived paradigm centred on the experience of 1917; for the resistance movements of the second world war it was understood as part of the struggle against fascism; for those battling to liberate themselves from colonialism it was understood as part of the liberation struggle...read more

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Product Description: Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel.  The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries...read more

Product Description: The revolutionary appeal of Communism in 20th-century Britain is analyzed in this examination of why Communist Party members joined, how they participated in the party's activities, and why, in many cases, they left the party. Archival resources, hundreds of interviews, and sociological analyses document the nature of left-wing activism in Britain from its earliest incarnations to the schisms of the 1980s...read more

Product Description: Investigating the relationship between various sects of the British Left and Bolshevism in the first half of the 20th century, this study provides insights into the history of political funding. With an examination of the attitudes towards Soviet Russia, broader questions about the character of the British Left between the 1890s and the 1940s are presented...read more

Product Description: The revolutionary appeal of Communism in 20th-century Britain is analyzed in this examination of why Communist Party members joined, how they participated in the party's activities, and why, in many cases, they left the party. Archival resources, hundreds of interviews, and sociological analyses document the nature of left-wing activism in Britain from its earliest incarnations to the schisms of the 1980s...read more

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Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work currently being produced in the field of communist biography. Geographically, the contributions take in North America and New Zealand as well as a range of European countries. Some chapters focus on individuals like Clara Zetkin, William Z. Foster, Umberto Terracini, William Gallacher or Jozsef Pogany. Others adopt a collective approach to explore communist cultures in rural Austrai or the Netherlands, or the impact of institutions like the International Lenin School. There are also chapters on communist institutional biographies, the role of general secretaries and the significance of generations and family links.

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Product Description: Historians base their claims to insight and authenticity on preserved traces of the past. But the past is continuously reinterpreted in the light of new scholarship and contemporary agendas. The articles in this issue represent competing claims to some familiar topics, such as the intellectual legacy of the New Left Review; the shaping of civil society and the state in Britain; a reappraisal of the hunger marches of the 1930s; and different perspectives on the relationship between fascism and gender...read more

Product Description: Historians of communism have become increasingly interested in its sub- and counter-cultural aspects and an overview of this scholarship is presented here. Geographically, other articles take in Britain, The Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia...read more

Product Description: The book also depicts the tragic fate of groups of British Communists who encountered Stalinism at first hand in the USSR. Much of the information in this section, as elsewhere in the book, is the result of new research on released material form previously closed archives in Moscow...read more

Product Description: The Socialist History Journal explores and assesses the past of the socialist movement, both for historical understanding and as a contribution to the movement's development and future. Socialist History 18--Radical Subcultures Lenin once compared art to the human appendix; "in time," he said, "we shall cut it out...read more

Product Description: The Socialist History Journal explores and assesses the past of the socialist movement, both for historical understanding and as a contribution to the movement's development and future. Different approaches to writing life histories provide the theme for this issue of Socialist History...read more

Product Description: This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the late-1900s wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. The text draws conclusions from the Regional Technology and Regional Innovation Strategies in Europe and compares them with US and Canadian experiences.

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