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Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left

By Ian Bullock

Book information

Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781926836379, 9781926836133, 9781926836126
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3356244 bytes)
Pages
417\439
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 02:23:18

Description

Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing the Revolution traces the reactions of the British Left to the idealized concept of Soviet democracy. Focusing on the turbulent period after the 1917 Russian Revolution, author Ian Bullock examines the impact of the myth of Soviet democracy: the belief that Russia was embarking on a brave experiment in a form of popular government more genuine and advanced than even the best forms of parliamentarism. Romancing the Revolution uncovers the imprint of this myth on left-wing organizations and their publications, ranging from those that presented themselves as "British Bolsheviks"—the British Socialist party and The Call, the Socialist Labour party's The Socialist, Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Dreadnought—to the much more equivocal Labour Leader and The New Statesmen.

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