The chronology of revolution : communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 174876366
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- ISBN
- 9781487507398
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 160,000 word book took thirteen years to complete. It was supported by three grants including an AHRC Leadership Fellowship. Analysing a seventy year period (1920-1990), it deals with the breadth of British Communism's cultural concerns (journalism, science, film, theatre, the visual arts, historiography, education, music, literature). Sources analysed include newspapers, periodicals, autobiographies, novels, letters, private papers and the Communist Party archives. Drawing on and engaging with Gramsci’s concept of civil society, it reconstructs twentieth-century Communist theoretical debates about culture’s role in reinforcing capitalism. Framed in terms of contemporary challenges, it extracts lessons for the project of socialist renewal today.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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