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Informationen zum Autor Paul Corthorn is Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen's University! Belfast! having taught previously at the University College! Oxford. He is the author of 'In the Shadow of the Dictators' (I.B.Tauris). Jonathan Davis is Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History at Anglia Ruskin University! Cambridge. Provides a fascinating and original exploration of Labour both on the world stage and at home - from the influence of the Soviet Union on political thought in the interwar years to the international student revolts of the 1960s, and from media in the 1990s to Kosovo and New Labour Interventionism. Zusammenfassung Provides a fascinating and original exploration of Labour both on the world stage and at home - from the influence of the Soviet Union on political thought in the interwar years to the international student revolts of the 1960s, and from media in the 1990s to Kosovo and New Labour Interventionism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Andrew Thorpe)1 - A Gentleman at the Foreign Office: influences in shaping Ramsay MacDonald’s internationalism in 1924 (John Shepherd)2 - ‘A Commanding Group’? Labour’s Advisory Committee on International Questions 1928-31 (Casper Sylvest)3 - Labour’s Political Thought: the Soviet influence in the interwar years (Jonathan Davis)4 - The Labour Party in the Era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-41 (Paul Corthorn)5 - The Foreign Policy of the Attlee Government, 1945-50 (John Callaghan)6 - Labour Party Factionalism and West German Rearmament, 1950-4 (Robert Crowcroft)7 - ‘The Challenge of Co-Existence’: the Labour Party, affluence and the Cold War, 1951-64 (Richard Tye and Nicholas Lawton)8 - From ‘Danny the Red’ to British Student Power: Labour and the international student revolts of the 1960s (David Fowler)9 - Humanitarian Intervention, the Labour Party and the Press: the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s (Ann Schreiner)10 - From Clinton to Bush: New Labour, the USA and the Iraq War (Mark Phythian)...
