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Article: Enemy Within - the Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 1, 1995
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Francis Beckett. John Murray. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. 0-7195-5310-5.
Some of us in the early stages of World War II predicted that Communism in Soviet Russia would collapse from within as that political ideology went against the instincts of human nature. It turned out thus.
Now we have a well researched, well written and unbiased book covering the aberration of the English equivalent of Russian communist thinking. The Communist Party of Great Britain, created in 1920, should not have been necessary because the home-spun Labour Party was already concerned with the appalling privations of the poor in pre-World War I life and the post-World War I horrors ...