Twentieth Century Communism

CONTENTS Introduction: communism and political violence Matthew Worley Violence as discourse? For a 'linguistic turn' in communist history Andreas Wirsching The communist movement and violence in France: from the First World War to the Cold War Sylvain Boulouque Revolutionary groups after 1968: Some lessons drawn from a comparative analysis Isabelle Sommier Italian communism and violence, 1921-48 Marco Albeltaro Left-wing armed struggle and political violence in 1970s Italy Monica Galfre The People's Militia: Communist and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s Andrew Whitehead Eve Rosenhaft's Beating the Fascists? An appreciation Eric D. Weitz Revolutionary Fiction: The Baader-Meinhof Complex and other representations of the Red Army Faction in German film Rosemary Stott Political religion and British communism Gidon Cohen Latin America and studies of communism Daniela Spenser Reviews Daniel F Calhoun, The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 Darren G Lilleker Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler Fiona Reid Brian Pollitt (ed), The Development of Socialist Economic Thought: Selected Essays by Maurice Dobb Pat Devine Ben Harker, Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl Walt Howard Serge Wolikow (ed), Pierre Semard Gavin Bowd John Bulaitis, Communism in Rural France: French Agricultural Workers and the Popular Front Stephen Hopkins Maurice Carrez, La fabrique d'un revolutionnaire, Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen (1881-1918) Antti Kujala