Raphael Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism

 

Raphael Samuel, one of postwar Britain’s most notable historians, posthumously evokes the world of British Communism in the 1940s and 50s.  For publication details go to Verso.

 

In New Left Review in the mid-80s Raphael Samuel published three essays on the world of British Communism in which he had grown up in the 1940s and 50s.  Verso have now reprinted these in book form to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.  A tour de force of historical writing, the essays draw on novels, memoirs, interviews, Party literature and archives, as well as Samuel's own childhood recollections, in order to conjure up an era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power. 

 

For other writing by Raphael Samuel, click here to download a complete bibliography of his work.

 

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