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Marxism in Britain Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000
By Keith Laybourn
Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar decline, although there has been a late flowering of Marxism in Scotland.
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1. The Communist Party of Great Britain during the Emergence of the Cold War 1945-1956 2. The Emergence of the Broad Left 1957-1960 3. The Red Seventies: Industrial Conflict and the Emergence of Eurocommunism 1971-1979 4. The Challenge of Thatcherism, The Triumph of Eurocommunism and the Collapse of 'Stalinism' 1980-1991 5. Postscript: The Re-Emergence and Reconstruction of Marxism in Britain or 'All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go'. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Keith Laybourn is Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He has written extensively on British labour history, British social policy and women in twentieth-century Britain.
