Betrayal of the Left (full title: Betrayal of the Left: an Examination & Refutation of Communist Policy from October 1939 to January 1941: with Suggestions for an Alternative and an Epilogue on Political Morality) was a book of essays published on 3 March 1941 by the Left Book Club, edited and largely written by Victor Gollancz. The book
had a preface by Harold Laski.[1]
Other contributions included two essays by George Orwell, "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries"[2] that condemned the Communist Party of Great Britain for backing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and for taking a revolutionary defeatist position in the war against Nazi Germany. Betrayal of the Left also
contained an essay by John Strachey attacking totalitarianism.[3]
It was particularly critical of the Communist Party-organised People's Convention of January 1941, the high point of the party's revolutionary defeatism during the period of Stalin's alliance with Hitler. It marked a decisive break by the democratic left from its 1930s alliance with the Communist Party.
^http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/perryMat.html Archived 2006-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Historical Research. Matt Perry. University of Sunderland
^Michael Newman,
John Strachey, Manchester University Press, 1989 ISBN 071902174X (p.83).
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