Romancing the Revolution
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Romancing the Revolution uncovers the imprint of this myth on left-wing organizations and their publications, ranging from those that presented themselves as "British Bolsheviks"-the British Socialist party and The Call, the Socialist Labour party's The Socialist, Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Dreadnought-to the much more equivocal Labour Leader and The New Statesmen.
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Timeline: May 1916 to January 1925
Introduction 3
1. Well-Prepared Ground: The British Left on the Eve of the Russian Revolution
2. Initial Responses to the Russian Revolution: The British Left in 1917 and the Leeds "Soviet" Convention
3. The Bolsheviks and the British Left: The October Revolution and the Suppression of the Constituent Assembly
4. The Myth Established: The Positive View of Soviet Democracy
5. Polarized Social-Democrats: Denunciation and Debate
6. Equivocal Reformists: The Independent Labour Party, the Guild Socialists, and the Reaction to Kautsky
7. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
8. The Independent Labour Party and the Third International: A Crucial Test for Belief in Soviet Democracy
9. "An Infantile Disorder": Communist Unity and the Brief Life of the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International)
10. British Bolsheviks? The Socialist Labour Party
11. Pankhurst's Dreadnought and the (Original) Fourth International: "Left Communism" and Soviet Democracy
12. The Early British Communist Party: Soviet Democracy Deferred and Redefined
13. Endings and Conclusions
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