The Abyssinia Crisis: Seventy Years on by Allison Drew (English) Paperback Book

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2005 marks the seventieth anniversary of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia - final humiliating step in Europe's colonisation of Africa. This issue offers reassessments of this key episode, set in its contemporary context. It concludes with a discussion of the contemporary Moscow arts scene.

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2005 marks the seventieth anniversary of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia - final humiliating step in Europe's colonisation of Africa; bloody symptom of the collapse of collective security in Europe; harbinger of the world war to come. In this issue of "Socialist History" our contributors offer provocative reassessments of this key episode, set in its broader contemporary context by the issue's editor, Allison Drew. Exploding the myth that Italian fascism was not marked by the racism of Nazism, Willie Thompson's article describes the stark brutality displayed in Abyssinia by Italian troops and the key role which the conflict played in Mussolini's domestic and international calculations. The conflict also had a significant impact upon the international left and the challenges simultaneously posed it by the rise of fascism, the reconfigurations of democracy and imperialism and the uncertainties of Soviet foreign policy. In his article, Christian Hogsbjerg explores the major impact which the Abyssinian struggle had on the Trinidadian intellectual C.L.R. James, who was then in Britain working on his masterful study of the Haitian Revolution The Black Jacobins.James in this period identified strongly with the non-Stalinist left in Britain, and the predicaments of this socialist anti-war movement are evaluated here by Andrew Flinn and Gidon Cohen. If socialists and internationalists seemed preoccupied with the issue, the same cannot be said of the wider British public. In our final feature, David Howell shows that in the 1935 general election voters were generally far less interested in Abyssinia than either politicians or political activists. Perhaps, Howell suggests, the same cannot be said so confidently of the last general election and the impact of Iraq. The issue concludes with a discussion of the contemporary Moscow arts scene by Margarita Tupitsyn and our usual reviews section.

Author Biography

Notes on Contributors Editorial Allison Drew The Fascist Regime and the Abyssinian Crisis Willie Thompson C.L.R. James and Italy's Conquest of Abyssinia. Christian Hogsbjerg The Abyssinian Crisis, British Labour and the Fracturing of the Anti-war Movement Andrew Flinn and Gidon Cohen A Faraway Country Abyssinia and the British general election of 1935 David Howell Forum Margarita Tupitsyn Who Will Design Lenin's New Suit? The 2005 Moscow Biennale

Table of Contents

Mussolini's Roman Empire - Willie Thompson C.L.R. James and Abyssinia - Christian Hogsbjerg The View from the British Left - Andrew Flinn and Gidon Cohen The British General Election of 1935 - David Howell The 2005 Moscow Biennale - Margarita Tupitsyn Reviews

Review

Reviews Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich (Martin Durham) Gwynne Lewis, France 1715-1804. Power and the People (David Parker) David Renton, Sidney Pollard. A Life in History (Mike Haynes) Dave Harker, Tressell: The Real Story of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Andy Croft) Norman LaPorte, The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924 - 1933 (Reiner Tosstorff) William J. Fishman, East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 (Ben Birnbaum) Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz: Experiencing Wages (Jorn Janssen) Joe England, The Wales TUC 1974-2004 (Keith Gildart)

Details ISBN1854891618 Publisher Rivers Oram Press Year 2006 ISBN-10 1854891618 ISBN-13 9781854891617 Format Paperback Pages 118 Series Socialist History S. Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9781854891617 Imprint Rivers Oram Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2006-01-01 NZ Release Date 2006-01-01 UK Release Date 2006-01-01 Subtitle Seventy Years on Author Andy Croft Publication Date 2006-01-01 Edited by Andy Croft DEWEY 963.057 Series Number No. 28 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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