The politics of betrayal : renegades and ex-radicals from Mussolini to Christopher Hitchens / Ashley Lavelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavelle, Ashley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Radicals.

Allegiance.

Political obligation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]

System Details:

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Summary:

How and why do so many radicals betray the cause? What implications does it have for left politics? Were the ex-radicals right to become conservatives? This book, the first of its kind, answers these and more questions.

Contents:

CHAPTER 3: The First World War: a defeat borne of nationalist bloodshedCHAPTER 4: 1960s radicals and political defeat: a lost cause?; CHAPTER 5: The full force of the law: defeat by state repression?; CONCLUSION TO PART II; PART III: FLAWED RADICALS; INTRODUCTION TO PART III; CHAPTER 6: Flawed early twentieth-century radicals: Mussolini, Parvus, and co.; CHAPTER 7: Overstated radicals; CHAPTER 8: For thirty pieces of silver?; CONCLUSION TO PART III; PART IV: THE RENEGADE 'MENTALITY'; INTRODUCTION TO PART IV; CHAPTER 9: Psychohistory

CHAPTER 10: Arthur Koestler, the twentieth-century 'sceptic', and other Cold War pilgrimsCONCLUSION TO PART IV; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526102737

1526102730

9781526102720

1526102722

9781781706169

1781706166

OCLC:

1064624692