Communism and Political Violence

By: Kevin MORGAN

Communist attitudes to violence have varied according to whether a given party was in power or opposition, and on the wider context in which its adherents found themselves. For communists of the Comintern generation, it was forever framed within a Bolshevik-derived paradigm centred on the experience of 1917; for the resistance movements of the second world war it was understood as part of the struggle against fascism; for those battling to liberate themselves from colonialism it was understood as part of the liberation struggle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907103147
• ISBN13: 9781907103148
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"