The Lost World of British Communism

Author: Raphael Samuel

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 31 January 2017 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
211 x 141 x 20mm | 318g

The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London's East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.