Stuart Macintyre
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The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia.
Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influenced the highest level of government, and commanded the unswerving loyalty of thousands. It showed working men and women they could have a better life,...
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English
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Stuart Macintyre, now a professor of history at the University of Melbourne and well-known author, participated in the radicalism of the 1960s and so writes here with an appreciation of the drama and pathos expressed in the history of a changing group of people and an institution which mounted an uncompromising challenge to the existing forms of national life.