Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Cradle Communists and Oral History

Part I

2 Under the Party's Wing: Communist Youth Organisations 1920-1956
Foundation years

Class Against Class and Popular Front
The Spanish Civil War
The Second World War
Promising years: 1945-1948
Isolation: 1948-1956

3 Out of the Shadows: Communist Youth Organisations 1957-1968
The ban-the-bomb movement
The politicisation of youth
The student movement
The anti-Vietnam War movement
Old guard vs. new guard

4 Fragmentation and Demise: Communist Youth Organisations 1969-1991
Gender roles, sexuality and the feminist movement
The anti-racist movement
The gay rights movement
The final years

Part II

5 From Heroes to Villains: The Second World War and '1956'
Resistance and war trauma
'1956'

6 Private Spheres: Communist Home Life
Politics at home
Cultural upbringing
Child-rearing mores

7 Public Spheres: Neighbourhood, School and Work
School and education
Work and careers
Anti-communism - MI5 and the BVD
Working mothers
Money and poverty
Summer camps and holidays
Friendships and relationships

8 Epilogue: Looking Back

9 Afterword


List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

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• Activismo político
• Autobiografia: histórico, político e militar
• Marxismo e Comunismo
• A Guerra Fria
• História da Europa

CPN (Communistische Partij van Nederland), CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain), identity, childhood, Cold War