1956: John Saville, EP Thompson and The Reasoner

1956 was a year of political drama. It saw the Anglo-French seizure of the Suez Canal, Nikita Khruschev's Secret Speech, denouncing Stalin, unrest across Eastern Europe and the Russian invasion of Hungary. This book discusses the convulsions which enveloped the Communist Party of Great Britain in the aftermath of Khruschev's revelations. It reprints the text of The Reasoner for the first time in 60 years. It tells the story of this journal and its editors: John Saville and E.P. Thompson.

Author: Paul Flewers
Publisher: Merlin Press
Published: 07/01/2017
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780850367263

About the Author
Paul Flewers is the author of The New Civilisation? Understanding Stalin's Soviet Union 1929-1941 and an editor of Revolutionary History. John McIlroy is a Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School.

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