UID:
almahu_9949747554102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781032671352
,
1032671351
,
9781040014349
,
1040014348
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9781040014363
,
1040014364
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in radical history and politics
Content:
"John Horner and the Communist Party is a biography of a leading trade unionist and activist who became disillusioned with the Communist Party. Known for creating the modern Fire Brigades Union during the Second World War, John Horner (1911-1997) resigned from the Communist Party in 1956. Formerly one of the Party's leading members, he afterwards refused to speak or write about his communist past. Horner's silence left him forgotten, but Horner's daughter, Rosalind Eyben, has remedied this through her engrossing account of how and why John Horner and Pat, his wife, became communist, and the events that led them to resign from the Party. She pieces the story together from a wide range of sources, including Horner's own lively unpublished memoir of his early years. The narrative occasionally diverges from the historian's voice to deliver personal reflections on the author's communist childhood and on what her father told her shortly before his death about his shame and guilt for having so long denied uncomfortable truths about the Party and the Stalinist terror. This book is for anyone concerned with the problem of political allegiance, personal morality and associated states of denial that were to haunt Horner in later life. It will also be of interest to scholars and students researching communism and the Communist Party"--
Note:
Prologue -- 'Walthamstow Wide Awake!' -- A Sense of Class -- At Sea -- The Lady of Shalott -- No More War -- 'The Coming Struggle for Power' -- 'Marx for You and God for Me' -- Hampstead -- 'Pale Pink' and 'Deeper Red' -- Close to Death, August-September -- 'Imagination and Decision' 1939- -- 'Bombed But Far From Beaten' -- 'Known to Keep Strange Company' 1941- -- The Campaign for a Second Front -- 'Go to it, Housewives!' -- 'Dare to Make it Known' -- 'Sliding into the Deep Freeze' -- 'The World Shall Yet Live in Peace' -- The Children's Perspective -- 'Both Betrayed and Betrayer' -- Exit -- Epilogue: Uncomforable Encounters with Truth.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Eyben, Rosalind. John Horner and the Communist Party Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032671345
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biographies.
DOI:
10.4324/9781032671352
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781032671352
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