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The politics of betrayal : renegades and ex-radicals from Mussolini to Christopher Hitchens /
The radical who is transformed into a conservative is a common theme in political history. Lavelle examines why several one-time radicals subsequently became parts of the establishment in various countries. How and why do so many radicals betray the cause? Is it simply a reaction to political defeat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : a road well travelled
- Part I : Worlds turned upside down
- Introduction to part I
- Turncoats and collaborationists : early twentieth-century renegades
- 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' ... drop back in : 1960s ex-radicals
- Conclusion to part I
- Part II : The experience of defeat
- Introduction to part II
- The First World War : a defeat borne of nationalist bloodshed
- 1960s radicals and political defeat : a lost cause?
- The full force of the law : defeat by state repression?
- Conclusion to part II
- Part III : Flawed radicals
- Introduction to part III
- Flawed early twentieth-century radicals : Mussolini, Parvus, and co.
- Overstated radicals
- For thirty pieces of silver?
- Conclusion to part III
- Part IV : The renegade 'mentality'
- Introduction to part IV
- Psychohistory
- Arthur Koestler, the twentieth-century 'sceptic', and other Cold War pilgrims
- Conclusion to part IV
- Conclusion.