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The Party : the Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning / Stuart Macintyre.

The Party : the Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning / Stuart Macintyre.
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Record Number 21355
ISBN 9781760875183
176087518X
Location 324.294 MAC
Author Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021 (author.).
Title The Party : the Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning / Stuart Macintyre.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
©2022.
Collation xiv, 498 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Content types text
still image
Carrier type volume
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Illegality, 1940-41 -- 2 Underground, 1940-42 -- 3 The leading war party, 1942-45 -- 4 Headwinds, 1943-45 -- 5 The offensive, 1945-49 -- 6 The chill, 1947-49 -- 7 Showdown, 1949-50 -- 8 Survival, 1950-55 -- 9 Revival? 1950-56 -- 10 A house divided, 1956-60 -- 11 Cannot stand, 1960-70 -- Epilogue -- List of illustrations -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary Note "Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influenced the highest level of government and commanded the unswerving loyalty of thousands. It showed working men and women they could have a better life, and gave them the tools to achieve it. Stuart Macintyre reveals how sources of strength in the party's heyday became the undoing of the party over the following two decades. Unconditional support for the Soviet model broke down as the horrors of Stalinism were revealed. Public support for the party eroded during a series of strikes, and hostility from mainstream politics and security services took a toll. But for those who remained, the comradeship and intense political engagement are the strongest memories.
The Party is the second volume of Stuart Macintyre's masterful history of Australian communism." -- Publisher. "The reds the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality", New edition, published Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2022. Originally published 1998.
Personal Name Lewis, Samuel Phineas (Sam) 1901–1976
Smith, Bernard 1916-2011
Shaw, Roderick1915-1992
McDonald, Henry Reginald (Harry),1914-1978
Corporate Name Communist Party of Australia
NSW Teachers Federation
Studio of Realist Art
Subject Communism -- History -- Australia
Communists -- Australia
Communism -- History -- Australia
Geographic Name Australia -- Politics and government -- 1901-1945
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Internet Site Book review by Phillip Deery, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, 19.3.2022
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