Revisions?

by Thompson, Willie; Parker, David; Waite, Mike; Morgan, David

• ISBN13: 9780745308142
• ISBN10: 0745308147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Pluto Pr

Summary

The process of historical revision is both continuous and cumulative: no historian ever says the last word. This issue of Socialist History covers a fascinating range of articles on some key political events and personalities in the latter half of this century, and reactions to them at the time: Khruschev's denunciation of Stalin, the Suez Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The new findings emerging from the Moscow archives are examined and the prospects for a new Labour government in the UK are considered. In an exclusive interview, the Secretary General of the Trades Union Council in the UK, John Monks, reappraises the history of the British labour movement since the 1960s.

Table of Contents

Editorial	p. 5
Interview with John Monks	p. 8
Michael Foot: Myth and the Labour Left	p. 43
Witness: The Death of Uncle Joe	p. 74
Walking Away from the Abyss: Foster on the Famine	p. 80
Reports
New Findings from the Moscow Archives	p. 84
Labour Last Time?	p. 91
Reviews
Egalitarian Thought and Labour Politics by Nicholas Ellison	p. 95
The Force of Labour by S. Berger and D. Broughton	p. 96
The Dynamics of Workplace Unionism by Ralph Darlington	p. 96
The Remaking of the British Working Class by Mike Savage and Andrew Miles, The Labour Aristocracy by Trevor Lummis, Comrade or Brother? by Mary Davis	p. 100
England Arise! by Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo	p. 104
God and Greater Britain by John Wolffe	p. 105
Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals by Stephen Koch	p. 108
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Witness of the Russian Revolution by Harvey Pitcher, The Fall of the Romanovs by Mark D. Steinberg and Vladimir M. Khrustalev	p. 110
The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde by Janet Polasky	p. 113
Stalin's Letters to Molotov edited by Lars T. Lih et al.	p. 114
Contested Territories: Border Disputes at the Edge of the Former Soviet Empire edited by Tuomas Forsberg, The Caucasian Knot by Levon Chorbajian et al.	p. 116
From Tsar to Soviets by Christopher Read	p. 119
Books Received	p. 122
Noticeboard	p. 125
Index	p. 127
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