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- catalog abstract "This book is an in-depth exploration of the Popular Front and United Front campaigns in Britain in the late 1930s. The author aims to dispel the myth that these campaigns can be understood largely as a ruse engineered by the Communists into which non-Communists were drawn blindly. Instead the author searches for the idea of 'progressive unity' in earlier episodes in the history of the British progressive tradition, including the early life of the Fabian Society, and the agitations against the Boer War, the First World War, and the Treaty of Versailles. By reassessing the significance of these episodes, and by reconsidering the role of seminal progressive thinkers in the formation of the ideas and political culture of Labour leftism, the author shows that the relationships between liberals and socialists, and between reformists and revolutionaries, had long been both intimate and fluid. By examining the reasons and assumptions behind individual Labour leftists' decisions to support the struggle for progressive unity in the late 1930s, it is shown that the Popular Front was neither an aberration nor a 'stunt', but a reasoned and culturally familiar response to the major political crisis presented by fascism and appeasement.".
- catalog contributor b3933127.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1936-1945.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.".
- catalog description "This book is an in-depth exploration of the Popular Front and United Front campaigns in Britain in the late 1930s. The author aims to dispel the myth that these campaigns can be understood largely as a ruse engineered by the Communists into which non-Communists were drawn blindly. Instead the author searches for the idea of 'progressive unity' in earlier episodes in the history of the British progressive tradition, including the early life of the Fabian Society, and the agitations against the Boer War, the First World War, and the Treaty of Versailles. By reassessing the significance of these episodes, and by reconsidering the role of seminal progressive thinkers in the formation of the ideas and political culture of Labour leftism, the author shows that the relationships between liberals and socialists, and between reformists and revolutionaries, had long been both intimate and fluid. By examining the reasons and assumptions behind individual Labour leftists' decisions to support the struggle for progressive unity in the late 1930s, it is shown that the Popular Front was neither an aberration nor a 'stunt', but a reasoned and culturally familiar response to the major political crisis presented by fascism and appeasement.".
- catalog extent "xv, 247 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521413834".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] : New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1936-1945.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "320.941 20".
- catalog subject "Coalition governments Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "DA576 .B5 1992".
- catalog subject "Liberalism Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Popular fronts Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Socialism Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Socialism Great Britain.".
- catalog title "The Popular Front and the progressive tradition : socialists, liberals, and the quest for unity, 1884-1939 / David Blaazer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".