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Book Title
Bolshevism and the British Left
Title
Bolshevism and the British Left
ISBN-10
1905007264
EAN
9781905007264
ISBN
9781905007264
Genre
Law & Politics
Release Date
03/04/2006
Release Year
2006
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Subject Area
Political Science
Language
English
Publication Name
Bolshevism and the British Left: V. 2: Webbs and Soviet Communism
Author
Kevin Morgan
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Nobody now thinks the Webbs' Soviet Communism a 'great book' - as Harold Laski hailed it after its publication in 1935. Closer to the mark seems A.J.P. Taylor's verdict - 'the most preposterous book ever written about Soviet Russia'. Some ascribe its apologia for Stalinism to the couple's old age and deteriorating judgement. Others, more influentially, note the affinities it reveals between the Webbs' Fabian philosophy and the bureaucratic dystopia of Stalinism. In this meticulous reconstruction of the Webbs' thinking, Kevin Morgan offers a challenging reassessment of accepted stereotypes. Through their diaries, papers and published writings, he assesses the couple's complex political evolution over some four decades, as Victorian certainties gave way to an age of social and political upheaval. He also shows how much more significant were their individual responses than the cliche of 'two typewriters beating as one' would suggest. While Sidney upheld the statist and technocratic perspectives synonymous with 'Webbism', Beatrice also contributed concerns with associationism and the search for a higher social morality. Their love affair with Soviet communism, which seemed to represent both synthesis and transcendence of these different strands of their thought, was far less idiosyncratic than is sometimes thought. Here it is discussed in a broader context, with separate chapters devoted to the 'roads to Russia' of technocrats and co-operators, debates with guild socialists, and an exploration of the neglected contradictions of the Webbs' own social philosophy. Through this wider cast of characters, from Margaret Llewellyn Davies to G.D.H. Cole, the paradox which emerges is that it was precisely those who had been most suspicious of state socialism who proved most susceptible to its Soviet apotheosis.

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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
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9781905007264
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Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Kevin Morgan
Publication Name
Bolshevism and the British Left: V. 2: Webbs and Soviet Communism
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Kevin Morgan
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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