Endgames and New Times

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This is the sixth and final volume of L&W’s comprehensive history of the British Communist Party, covering the debates of the last years - a period of accelerated change and reassessment, and ultimately dissolution.

 

The book begins by situating the CPGB within the major social and cultural changes of the 1960s, and documents the hopes for renewal that were symbolised by the new social movements associated with May 68, and the Prague spring. It ends with the collapse of the party and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite all the new thinking and idealism, the party could not hold together.

The book covers the Young Communist League’s engagement with popular culture in the 1960s; the influence of the new social movements, especially feminism; the party’s strong presence in the trade unions; CPGB relations with the Labour Party and labour movement; the increasing influence of Gramsci within the party, especially among a new generation of intellectuals; the Communist Universities of London; the influence of Eurocommunism; and the rise and fall of Marxism Today.

Other volumes of History CPGB:
​1. Formation and Early years 1919-1924
2. The General Strike 1925-1926
3. History CPGB 1927-1941
4. History CPGB 1941-1951
5. Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The CPGB 1951-68

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Weight 0.370000
ISBN13/Barcode 9780853159919
ISBN10 0853159912
Author ANDREWS, Geoff
Binding Paperback
Date Published 18th May 2004
Pages 264
Publisher Lawrence & Wishart