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Book SynopsisThis issue looks at communism through the prism of its relationship to young people. Contributors discuss young members and youth sections within the communist movement, the youth policies of communist parties and governments, and relationships between the generations both within families and in the public arena.
Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Communist youth, communist generations: a reappraisal Leo Goretti and Matthew Worley Irma Bandiera and Maria Goretti: Gender role models for communist girls in Italy (1945-1956) LEO GORETTI When the Party Comes Down: The CPGB and Youth Culture, 1976-1991 EVAN SMITH 'With power and aggression, and a great sadness': Emotional Clashes between Punk Culture and GDR Youth Policy in the 1980s JULIANE BRAUER Growing up communist: theory vs. practice ELKE WEESJES 'A dream come true': Finns visiting the lands of socialism at the World Youth Festivals in the 1940s and 1950s PIA KOIVUNEN Generations of Finnish Communism KIMMO RENTOLA Time is on My Side INTERVIEW WITH DETLEF SIEGFRIED REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS Italian communism and the 'woman question' in post-war Italy: from memory to history PAMELA SCHIEVENIN The Hungarian Communist party, ethno-nationalism and anti-Semitism PAUL KELEMEN The Left's bibliophilia in Interwar Britain: assessing booksellers' role in the battle of ideas ELEN COCAIGN Book Reviews Geoffrey Swain, Tito: A Biography RICHARD MILLS Phil Edwards, 'More work! Less pay!': Rebellion and repression in Italy (1972-7) LEO GORETTI Jim Jump (ed.), Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War; Richard Baxell et al, Antifascists: British and Irish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, in words and pictures WILLIAM A PELZ Ben Lewis and Lars T. Lih, Head to Head in Halle: Zinoviev and Martov FRANCIS KING Charlie McGuire, Sean McLoughlin. Ireland's Forgotten Revolutionary EMMET O'CONNOR Jonathan Miles, The Nine Lives of Otto Katz: The remarkable story of a Communist super-spy ARCHIE POTTS
