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Article: Communists and British Society 1920-1991.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Communists and British Society 1920-1991. By Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen, and Andrew Flinn. (Chicago, Ill.: Rivers Oram Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 356. $25.95.)
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was formed in 1920 as an affiliate of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). It was dissolved in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It never attained great heights of power. It never had more than two members of parliament at any one time (and none after 1950). Its membership never reached sixty thousand, and peaked at the height of enthusiasm for the Soviet Union in World War II. This very lack of success has, however, fascinated numerous ...
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