Twentieth Century Communism
a journal of international history

Editors Richard Cross, Norry LaPorte, Kevin Morgan, Matthew Worley

Issue 3

1968 and after - between crisis and opportunity

Just over twenty years separates the upheavals that communist movements across the world faced in 1968 and the endgame of the Soviet era. The events of 1968 can, in retrospect, be seen as the final decisive turning point in the history of communism in the twentieth century. This third issue of Twentieth Century Communism explores how communist parties and movements responded to (or struggled to engage with) the crises and opportunities of 1968.

Contents

'Rejecting all adventurism': The Italian Communist Party and the movements of 1972-9
Phil Edwards

'1968' and the formation of the feminist subject
Brigitte Studer

Still a 'Spanish Red'? The communist past and national identity in the writing of Jorge Semprún
Stephen Hopkins

The Portuguese Communist Party and the labour movement in the beginning of the Carnation Revolution
Raquel Varela

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany's bizarre relationship with the Greek Communist Party in the period 1968-1989
Andreas Stergiou

De Gaulle, Ceausescu and May 1968
Gavin Bowd

REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS

Moscow-Havana-Prague: recollections of a communist foreign correspondent
Sam Russell

The rise and decline of communism in South Asia: a review essay
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

Recent historiography of the People's Republic of China, 1949-76
Stephen A Smith

BOOK REVIEWS

Nina Fishman, Arthur Horner: A Political Biography
John Callaghan

Bernhard H Bayerlein, 'Der Verräter, Stalin, bist Du!' Vom Ende der linken Solidarität. Komintern und kommunistische Parteien im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Peter Brandt

Daryl Glaser and David M. Walker (eds.), Twentieth-Century Marxism: A Global Introduction; Silvo Pons and Robert Service (eds.), A Dictionary of 20th Century Communism
William A. Pelz

Guillaume Quashie-Vauclin, L'Union de la Jeunesse Républicaine de France 1945-1956. Entre organisation de masse de jeunesse et movement d'avant-garde communiste
Leo Goretti

Norman LaPorte, Kevin Morgan and Matthew Worley (eds.), Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern: Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917-53
Kevin McDermott

Marc Junge, Die Gesellschaft ehemaliger politischer Zwangsarbeiter und Verbannter in der Sowjetunion. Gründung, Entwicklung und Liquidierung (1921-1935)
Francis King

Gina Herrmann, Written in Red: The Communist Memoir in Spain Sharif Gemie

Daniel Rosenberg, Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period: A Family Memoir
Eric A. Schuster

Paperback, pp256, May 2011
ISBN 9781907103285