UID:
almafu_9960119683402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-86527-9
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0-511-56097-4
Inhalt:
The 1930s was the decade of the Jarrow March and the International Brigade - 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. Why was this? In this book Ben Pimlott suggests answers, and challenges established myths about left-wing politics during a crucial period. Pimlott's study is concerned with the relationship between ideas and political action. The author is interested in the distinction which can be drawn between 'expressive' and 'instrumental' approaches to political behaviour, and a central theme is that the 'expressive' politics of some sections of the Left had an ironic effect of hindering the achievement of widely shared goals.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Glossary of initials; 1 Introduction; PART ONE LABOUR AND THE CRISIS; 2 Watershed; The split; The holocaust; Power in the labour party; 3 Leadership; George lansbury; Clement attlee; Arthur greenwood; Hugh dalton; Herbert morrison; 4 Fabians and Keynesians; The pursuit of policy; Labour and keynes; 5 Labour and the Left: the Socialist League; Origins of the socialist league; The psychology of things: the socialist league 1932- 4; Appendix: the membership of the socialist league; 6 Radicalism or Socialism? Planners and the left Planning and socialism; PART TWO UNITED FRONT; 7 Contests; Foreign policy and the leadership; 'An interim appointment'; 8 Outside Left and the United Front; The ilp: 'sympathetic affiliation'; The communists: united front from below and from above; Campaign for communist affiliation 1935-6; 9 Labour and the United Front; Fascism and the labour left; Agreement; 10 'Unity'; Spain; Scottish socialists; Collapse; Dissolution; Appendix: tribune; PART THREE RANK AND FILE; 11 Repression; The party constitution and the rank and file; Local parties and the nec; 12 Revolt. Ben greene and the association of labour parties A National Movement; 13 Struggle; Greene, the left and the executive; Conflict; 14 Revolution; Bournemouth party conference 1937; Aftermath; PART FOUR ALLIANCE; 15 Popular Front; The next five years group; Foreign policy and the popular front; Labour and rearmament; Tory rebels; 16 Labour and the Left Book Club; Left books and the popular front; Lbc and the bridgwater by-election; Gollancz, king st and the labour party; 17 Parliamentary Alliance?; Munich, labour and the rebels; 18 Cripps and the Petition Campaign; The cripps memorandum. 'Bloomsbury revolutionaries 'Out of the party; 19 Labour and the War 1939-40; Labour and the phoney war; Resignation; Labour and the coalition; 20 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-08765-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-21448-3
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560972
