1st Edition
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation
By Elke Weesjes
Copyright 2021
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists’ attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century. Communist parties in Britain and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War expecting to play a significant... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: Cradle Communists and Oral History, Part I, Part II, 8 Epilogue: Looking Back, 9 Afterword, List of Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Elke Weesjes is a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and an adjunct assistant professor at the City University of New York in Brooklyn, where she teaches courses in modern European and U.S. history, and women’s and gender studies.
