In the Shadow of the Dictators (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Paul Corthorn presents an illuminating, in-depth study of the British Left s response to the rise of international fascism in the 1930s. He uses a range of newly available archival sources to analyse how the Labour left - which took the form of the Socialist League between 1932 and 1937 - and the Independent Labour Party reacted to developments such as Mussolini s invasion of Abyssinia, Franco s uprising in Spain and Hitler s drive for territorial expansion. He argues that their responses to these threats from the fascist dictators were shaped above all by their constantly changing views of another dictatorship: the Soviet Union under Stalin._x000D_ _x000D_ 'an elegant piece of innovative research on the Labour left between 1932 and 1939'_x000D_ 'based on an impressive amount of research and on a perceptive and sensitive handling of the evidence collected'_x000D_ 'this elegantly written book fills a major gap in the existing literature'_x000D_ Professor E F Biagini, University of Cambridge"