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Discordant comrades : identities and loyalties on the South African Left /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drew, Allison
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2000.
Subjects:
Socialism > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > South Africa > History > 20th century.
South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mouvement ouvrier > Afrique du Sud > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Labor movement
Politics and government
Socialism
South Africa
Sozialismus
Socialisme.
Arbeidersbeweging.
Sozialismus > Südafrika (Republik) > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Südafrika (Republik) > Politik > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Labor movement > South Africa > History > 20th century
Socialism > South Africa > History > 20th century
South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
Südafrika <Staat>
1900-1999
History
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
Table of Contents:
  • Writing South African socialist history
  • The international and national origins of South African socialism
  • 'Rather a strange gospel': socialism in South Africa, 1900-1917
  • 'The word was made flesh': the impact of the Russian revolution on South Africa
  • Searching for the socialist road: the Rand Revolt and the turn to black labour
  • The one best way: the Comintern's hand and the native republic thesis
  • The new line: fighting the scourge of Buntingism
  • A new prophet, a new prophecy: the origins of South African Trotskyism
  • Inquisition and recantation
  • Illusory visions: black unity and left unity in the 1930s
  • 'Wars and remours of wars' socialists confront the second world war
  • 'Not in word, but in power': socialists and black protest during the war
  • "Peace; and there was no peace': the Cold War and the suppression of socialism
  • The burden of history and the burden of choice.