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Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party


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This work serves as an introduction to, and an overview of, key issues and themes in the history of the Communist Party in Britain, and an assessment of the CP's changing historiography, particularly in view of the availability of previously inaccessible archives. Thirteen contributors examine particular aspects of the party's history from the early Comintern period, to the events in Hungary in 1956 and the Eurocommunism and cultural politics of recent years. The scope of the book is deliberately broad, covering not only the more conventional aspects of CP participation in the labour movement, but also the broader cultural influence of the party on writers, artists, scholars, activists and opinion-formers at various stages in its history.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 The Communists and the colonies: anti-imperialism between the wars by John Callaghan 2 ‘Divisions in the movement’: the National Unemployed Workers Movement and its rivals in comparative perspective by Richard Croucher 3 The Communist Party and the Scottish coalfield 1919-38 by Alan Campbell 4 Women and communism: a case study of the Lancashire weavers in the depression by Sue Bruley 5 Authors take sides: writers and the Communist Party 1920-56 by Andy Croft 6 The Communist Party and the trade unions 1926-56 by Nina Fishman 7 Sidestepping the contradictions: the Communist Party, Jewish Communists and Zionism 1935-48 by Henry Srebrnik 8 The Communist Party and the Daily Worker 1930-56 by Kevin Morgan 9 The Communist Party, production and Britain’s post-war settlement by James Hinton 10 West Africans and the Communist Party in the 1950s by Hakim Adi 11 Communism and the New Left by Mike Kenny 12 Sex ‘n’ drugs ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll (and communism) in the 1960s by Mike Waite 13 Young turks and old guard: intellectuals and the Communist Party in the 1970s by Geoff Andrews Afterword by Eric Hobsbawm Notes on contributors Archival sources and further reading Bibliography

About the Author :
Geoff Andrews is the author The Slow Food Story (Pluto, 2008) and Not a Normal Country: Italy after Berlusconi (Pluto, 2005). He also writes for a range of newspapers, including the Financial Times, Open Democracy, and Soundings, for which he was an associate editor. Nina Fishman (26 May 1946 - 5 December 2009) was an American-born English labour movement historian and political activist. Kevin Morgan is a lecturer in British politics and Political Ideologies and Archival Research.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780745308722
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0745308724
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 421 gr


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