| Description |
126 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Love and Paul Strangio -- Australia's Cold War / Peter Love -- A hot time in the Cold War / Amirah Inglis -- I lived through the Cold War / Bernie Taft -- Conspiracies and threats to democracy: the other side of the coin / L.J. Louis -- Robert Menzies' "fundamental authoritarianism": the 1951 Referendum / Jenny Hocking -- Cairns, Keon and the battle for Yarra: a microcosm of Labor split politics / Paul Strangio -- The National Civic Council's role in Australia's Cold War: an insider's vignettes / John Cotter -- The split: looking back / Rick Brown -- The role of Catholics in the Cold War: the conundrum of B.A. Santamaria / Bruce Duncan -- The manifold causes of the Labor split / Bob Corcoran -- Being young in the Cold War / John Cain -- Decoding the Cold War: Venona, espionage and 'the communist threat' / Phillip Deery -- The unthawed war / Ian Syson |
| Summary |
This book brings to life the passions, flawed visions and intense personal engagement that characterised Australian politics in the 1950s. Communist and Catholic activists recall what seemed to them a desperate struggle between liberty and tyranny, for the future of the labour movement and the security of the Australian people. Labor people remember their party tearing itself apart. Skilled historians explore some of the significant events and issues that scarred a generation and degraded our political culture with simplistic certitudes. As so many of our current public debates resemble school-yard squabbles, this book is a salutary reminder that politics can be about principles that matter |
| Analysis |
Cold War |
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Political change |
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ALP |
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Communist Party of Australia |
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Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia |
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History, 1946-1999 |
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Federal issue |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cold War.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1945-
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600
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| Author |
Love, Peter, 1947-
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Strangio, Paul.
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| LC no. |
2002327727 |
| ISBN |
095773526X : |
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