Shortlisted, Best Australian History Book, New South Wales Premier's History Literary Awards 1999 Winner, Non-fiction prize, The Age Book of the Year Awards 1998 Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award, National Literary Awards 1988 In 1920, 26 men and women met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of humanity - here, and all around the world. Two decades later, when Australia joined in the Second World War, the Commonwealth Government suppressed the Communist Party of Australia. The handful of idealists and dissidents had become a political force powerful enough, in the view of the authorities, to pose a threat to national security. The Communist Party was a major part of Australia's political landscape for more than half a century. It enlisted its members in a world-wide cause that was charged with hopes for revolutionary change and imbued with the iron discipline of warriors in a class war. It attracted fierce hostility; it inspired devotion. Australian communism wielded an influence far beyond its size. The Party cam
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Winner of The Age Book of the Year Awards 1998 (Australia). Commended for NSW Premier's History Awards 1998 (Australia). Short-listed for Non-fiction Prize 1999 (Australia).Shortlisted, Best Australian History Book, New South Wales Premier's History Literary Awards 1999Winner, Non-fiction prize, The Age Book of the Year Awards 1998Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award, Nation
AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Foundation2 What as to be
done?3 Recognition4 Tactics5 Australian exceptionalism6 The line
straightens7 Bolshevisation8 Class against class9 The Depression
communists10 Towards the United Front11 Communism by fronts12 Growth
pains13 The socialist sixth of the world14
WarConclusionEndnotesIllustrationsIndex
Stuart Macintyre, Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, is acknowledged as Australia's premier historian of politics. Among his many books are A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917-1933, Little Moscows: Communism and Working Class Militancy in Interwar Britain, Militant: A Life and Times of Paddy Troy, The Succeeding Age: Oxford History of Australia Vol 4, Colonial Liberalism, The Labour Experiment, Winners and Losers, and A History for a Nation.
