Twentieth
Century Communism |
Editors
Richard Cross, Norry LaPorte, Kevin Morgan, Matthew Worley
Issue
2
- May 2010
Communist attitudes to violence have varied according to whether a given party was in power or opposition, and on the wider context in which its adherents found themselves. For communists of the Comintern generation, it was forever framed within a Bolshevik-derived paradigm centred on the experience of 1917; for the resistance movements of the second world war it was understood as part of the struggle against fascism; for those battling to liberate themselves from colonialism it was understood as part of the liberation struggle.
CONTENTS
Introduction:
communism and political violence
Matthew Worley
Violence as
discourse? For a 'linguistic turn' in communist history
Andreas Wirsching
The communist movement and violence in
France: from the First World War to the Cold War
Sylvain Boulouque
Revolutionary groups after 1968: Some lessons drawn from a comparative
analysis
Isabelle Sommier
Italian communism and violence, 1921-48
Marco Albeltaro
Left-wing armed struggle and political violence in 1970s
Italy
Monica Galfré
The People's Militia: Communist and Kashmiri
nationalism in the 1940s
Andrew Whitehead
Eve Rosenhaft's Beating
the Fascists? An appreciation
Eric D. Weitz
Revolutionary Fiction:
The Baader-Meinhof Complex and other representations of the Red Army Faction
in German film
Rosemary Stott
Political religion and British communism
Gidon Cohen
Latin America and studies of communism
Daniela Spenser
Reviews
Daniel F Calhoun, The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928
Darren
G Lilleker
Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning
under Mussolini and Hitler
Fiona Reid
Brian Pollitt (ed), The
Development of Socialist Economic Thought: Selected Essays by Maurice Dobb
Pat Devine
Ben Harker, Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of
Ewan MacColl
Walt Howard
Serge Wolikow (ed), Pierre Semard
Gavin Bowd
John Bulaitis, Communism in Rural France: French Agricultural
Workers and the Popular Front
Stephen Hopkins
Maurice Carrez,
La fabrique d'un révolutionnaire, Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen (1881-1918)
Antti Kujala
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