The Socialist League in the 1930s

The Socialist League in the 1930s
Author: Michael Bor
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

Michael Bor studied for a BA at Bangor University, North Wales, an MA at the LSE, and a D.Phil at Sussex University. He directed 'Marat/Sade' at the National Student's Drama Festival, and 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun' as a postgraduate. He lectured in colleges and Polytechnics for twenty years, and has been a film, video and television regulator for over twenty years. (He was the Principal Examiner at the BBFC 1993-2000.) He wrote a biography of nineteenth century philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (published by Anthony Blond). He is married to Josephine, has four children, and lives in London and the Maltese island, Gozo.

Labour and the Left in the 1930s

Labour and the Left in the 1930s
Author: Ben Pimlott
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1977-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521214483

The 1930s was the 'Red Decade' of literary imagination. Yet there has seldom been a time when the influence of the British Left has been at a lower ebb.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
Author: Lloyd Billingsley
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Blacklisting of entertainers
ISBN: 9780761521662

This engrossing tale of intrigue, passion, betrayal, and violence uncovers the true face of communism in Southern California, and names writers and actresses who were seduced by the party's philosophy.

The League for Social Reconstruction

The League for Social Reconstruction
Author: Michiel Horn
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1980-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1487590253

In 1931-2 the first organization of Canadian left-wing intellectuals was founded. Led by historian Frank Underhill of the University of Toronto and law professor and poet Frank Scott of McGill University, the League for Social Reconstruction was critical of industrial capitalism and called for basic social and economic change through educational activity and parliamentary and constitutional channels. In the first history of this unique organization Michiel Horn outlines the League's aims and accomplishments and its ideological influence on the CCF and the NDP. Initially, the LSR avoided the term 'socialism' and remained uncommitted to any political part, although its choice of J.S. Woodsworth as honorary president made its sympathies clear. When, not long after the LSR's establishment, the CCF was founded, many League members joined it. An attempt to link the LSR openly with the CCF failed, but the League soon became known as the CCF's 'brain trust,' and the manifesto and programme adopted by the party in 1933 clearly reflected the influence of the LSR members. The League's own democratic socialist ideas were most fully stated in Social Planning for Canada (1935), Democracy Needs Socialism (1938), and in the pages of the Canadian Forum, acquired by the LSR in 1936. With the disillusionment of the later 1930s, the distraction of the war, and, most of all, the increased support enjoyed by the CCF after 1940, the LSR disappeared as a formal organization, but its ideas shaped a political tradition which found expression in the CCF and later the NDP.

Raised under Stalin

Raised under Stalin
Author: Seth F. Bernstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501712020

In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the "new people" who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin’s regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism.

Socialism & Marginalism in Economics 1870 - 1930

Socialism & Marginalism in Economics 1870 - 1930
Author: Ian Steedman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2003-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134790759

The rise to dominance of marginalist economics coincided with a major increase in the spread of socialist ideas. As many socialist and Marxist thinkers were preocuppied with economic questions this was scarcely a development that could be ignored. Socialists either had to defend Marxist economics against marginalist criticism or show that socialism and marginalism were compatible. This volume explores the varied socialist responses in a number of major European countries including Italy, France, Russia and German speaking countries.

The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia

The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia
Author: Elizabeth White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2010-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136905723

The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "dustbin of history", as Trotsky hoped, but – led by its leadership in exile in the 1920s and 1930s – continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia. In emigration, the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) party often put forward policy proposals on a wide range of topics: policies which, based on a shrewd understanding of the real situation in Russia, offered realistic alternatives to the policies being pursued by the Marxist Bolshevik regime. This book fills a gap in examining one of the most significant Russian political parties, and is based on extensive original analysis of SR party materials, shows how it operated; how it formulated and disseminated its ideas; what these ideas were, and how the party's ideas developed in response to changing circumstances in Russia and Europe more widely. Far from being the agrarian Slavophile romantics as they are often portrayed, this book shows the SRs were energetic European modernisers who contributed vigorously to the leading debates of their day; it also shows how the SR vision of a populist, socialist regime failed to materialise as state control, dictatorship and the collectivisation of agriculture took hold.

The Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America
Author: Jack Ross
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1612344917

At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of “America’s conscience,” Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the “radicalism” of Barack Obama.

International Trotskyism, 1929-1985

International Trotskyism, 1929-1985
Author: Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822309758

In a work of encyclopedic scope, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985 is sure to become the definitive reference work on a movement that has had a significant impact on the political culture of countries in every part of the world for more than half a century. Renowned scholar Robert J. Alexander has amassed, from disparate sources, an unprecedented amount of primary and secondary material to provide a documentary history of the origins, development, and nature of the Trotskyist movement around the world. Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Trotskyists, newspaper reports and pamphlets, historical writings including the annotated writings of Trotsky in both English and French, historical memoirs of Trotskyist leaders, and documents of the Fourth International, Alexander recounts the history of the movement since Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929. Organized alphabetically in a double-column, country-by-country format this book charts the formation and growth of Trotskyism in more than sixty-five countries, providing biographic information about its most influential leaders, detailed accounts of Trotsky's personal involvement in the development of the movement in each country, and thorough reports of its various factions and splits. Multiple chapters are reserved for countries where the movement was more active or fully developed and various chapters are organized around crucial thematic issues, such as the Fourth International. The chapters are followed by extensive name, organization, publication, and subject indexes, which provide optimal access to the wealth of information contained in the main body of the work.

Comrades against Imperialism

Comrades against Imperialism
Author: Michele L. Louro
Publisher: Global and International Histo
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108419305

Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.