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The Councils of Action 1920 and the British Labour Movement’s Defence of Soviet Russia
by John Foster
(Manifesto Press, £4)
FIVE years ago historian Frank McLynn authored The Road Not Taken, a book arguing that there had never been a revolution in Britain, unlike almost everywhere else.
His thesis was susceptible to the immediate objection, which he struggled with, that there had indeed been a revolution in the 17th century. Nevertheless, since then, there has been nothing more than several near misses, reinforcing the complacent Whiggish assumptions of British constitutional exceptionalism.
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