The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884?1939

Blaazer, David

ISBN 10: 0521413834 / ISBN 13: 9780521413831

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992

About this Item

A study of the reasons of the British Labour Party's 'left' for supporting the formation of a 'Popular Front' in the late 1930s. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505. . 1992. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884?1939
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521413834
• ISBN 13: 9780521413831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This study explains why the British Labour Party's "left" supported the unsuccessful campaign for the formation of a "Popular Front" of the Labour, Liberal, and Communist parties in the late 1930s. The support of the Labour "left" for the campaign has often been seen as a result of Communist manipulation but here Dr. Blaazer explains it by reassessing a sixty-year period in the progressive tradition in British politics. He argues that the "left" emerged from that tradition, and that its support for a Popular Front was entirely consistent with the practice and ideas of British progressives.

Review

"...valuable insight into the continued prevalence of progressive ideas into the 1930s. It will be of interest to students of the history of ideas and of the left in modern Britain." Canadian Journal of History