Middle Class Communists Seminar (Part Two) - Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Juliet Gardiner

This is the second of three parts of the seminar 'Middle class recruits to Communism in the 1930s', featuring Lord Denis Healey, Lord Peter Hennessy, Professor Nicholas Deakin, Juliet Gardiner and Professor Sir Roderick Floud FBA.
Following his previous lecture on the subject, Professor Nicholas Deakin CBE and a panel of experts discuss the lives and ideas of middle class Communist recruits in 1930s Britain. Why did some idealistic young people join the Party in the inter-war years? What was the attraction of Communism and which beliefs, events or material circumstances prompted them to join? How did the Party respond to this predominantly university-educated group of recruits?
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