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THE CHRONOLOGY OF REVOLUTION This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 8524492114 on Tue 11 Jan 2022 00:17:08 UTC T H E , , communism culture C H R O N O LO GY and civil society in O F - twentieth century britain R E V O L U T I O N b e n h a r k e r UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2021 Toronto Buffalo London utorontopress.com Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4875-0739-8 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-3616-9 (EPUB) ISBN 978-1-4875-3615-2 (PDF) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: The chronology of revolution : communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain / Ben Harker. Names: Harker, Ben, author. Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200346172 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200346180 | ISBN 9781487507398 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487536169 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781487536152 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Communist Party of Great Britain – History – 20th century. | LCSH: Communism – Great Britain – History – 20th century. | LCSH: Political parties – Great Britain – History – 20th century. Classification: LCC JN1129.C62 H37 2021 | DDC 324.241/09750904 – dc23 Every effort was made to discover and contact the photographers who took the photos included in this book; if anyone believes they should be credited, University of Toronto Press and the author will be happy to do so in future printings or editions of the book. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Funded by the Financé par le Government gouvernement of Canada du Canada For Rosa This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 8524492114 on Tue 11 Jan 2022 00:17:08 UTC Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3 1 The Chronology of Revolution, 1920–1940 13 2 Constructive Communists, 1940–1947 38 3 The British Road to Socialism, 1947–1956 76 4 The Struggle for Renewal, 1956–1968 109 5 The Spectre of Eurocommunism, 1968–1979 149 Conclusion 201 Notes 207 Index 351 This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 8524492114 on Tue 11 Jan 2022 00:17:11 UTC Illustrations Party propaganda machine, 1920s 14 Communist Pioneers in Birmingham, 1920s 14 Home Front journal, 1942 44 Second Front rally, Trafalgar Square, 1942 45 Student recruitment leaflet, 1946 64 The British Road to Socialism (1951) 79 Communist-refashioned billboard advertising Mighty Joe Young (1949) 98 Barbara Niven addressing a street meeting, early 1950s 101 Activist selling Arena at Sadler’s Wells, London, 1951 102 Communists protest against racism in Notting Hill, late 1950s 127 Communists in Ilford basking in the reflected glory of the Soviet Sputnik launch, 1957 130 Communists with membership cards, 1958 130 Arnold Kettle, Alan Bush, Lindsay Anderson, and John Berger, 1960s 134 Young Communist League activists in Manchester during the December 1963 by-election 139 The Beatles in Challenge, December 1963 142 Handbill for The Trend Young Communist League recruitment drive, 1967 143 Poster for Communist Women’s Struggle event, London, 1975 160 Poster for Communist University of London, 1977 169 Granada Television filming the 1977 Congress for Decision: British Communism 189 The Communist Party stall at the Glastonbury Festival, 1984 198
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