Norman Laporte
Biographic Data
| ID | 2954847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Laporte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Laporte |
| SIGNATURE | LAPORTE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
Between Scylla and Charybdis
This article deals with European Nuclear Disarmament's (END) difficult positioning in the Cold War of the 1980s. Its vision was for a humanistic socialism from below that would be capable of breaking up the Cold War and unite a divided Europe that in turn could act as a possible "third way" between the liberal capitalism of the USA and the orthodox Communism of the Soviet Union. However, it proved difficult to build these alliances across the Col…
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution an…
Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern
Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the co
Towards a Comparative History of Communism
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 inspired the formation of communist parties across the world. These, in turn, affiliated to the Communist International founded by the Bolsheviks in 1919, through which the national parties adopted a uniform organization, policy and theory. This article seeks to survey the development of the German and British communist parties between 1918 and 1933, examining the extent to which their experiences can be compared …
In Search of Antifascism
This article examines the role of antifascism in perceptions of the German Democratic Republic in Britain, with a particular emphasis on the British Left. It shows that the GDR deliberately used its self-portrayal as antifascist German state and the inverse portrayal of the Federal Republic of Germany as a state still dominated by old fascists to gain credit in Britain. It was relatively successful in doing so, because many on the British Left sh…
In the House of the Hangman
Ostpolitik before Ostpolitik
In 1955 West Germany joined NATO, while East Germany joined the Warsaw Pact. The GDR was not recognized by Britain, as it followed the FRG’s Hallstein doctrine, according to which the FRG was the only legitimate German state. The Labour Party officially had no relations with the GDR, but after 1955 an increasing number of Labour MPs, including some senior figures, travelled to the GDR and openly voiced their opinion that the GDR should be recogni…
Power and the People
The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924-1933
John Peet (1915–1988)
John Peet was the most important interlocutor between Britain and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Through his journal, Democratic German Report ( DGR ), which he edited between 1952 and 1975, Peet had considerable influence among left‐of‐centre public opinion in Britain. His positive portrayal of the GDR was among the GDR's most believable and powerful propaganda in Britain. This articles reassesses Peet's decision to live and work in the G…
Social Fascism’, ‘Stalinisation’ and the Case of the Saxon Communist Party, 1928-9
This article explores the interaction of Anglophone labour and liberals in the process which led to the creation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1919, the first international attempt to legislate sociopolitical and economic standards central to the agendas of both movements. It charts the dynamics between collectivist, mostly British, and voluntarist, mostly American, conceptions of international labour legislation, and analyses…
Stalinization’ and its Limits in the Saxon KPD, 1925–28
Using newly available documentation, this article re-examines the debate on the political development of the German Communist Party (KPD) during the mid-1920s. Initially, the history of the KPD was written as the history of the party’s subordination to Moscow. However, with the rise of social history, historians shifted the focus of their research to the ‘view from below’. Moscow’s omnipresence in the history of German communism was replaced by t…
Towards a Comparative History of Communism
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 inspired the formation of communist parties across the world. These, in turn, affiliated to the Communist International founded by the Bolsheviks in 1919, through which the national parties adopted a uniform organization, policy and theory. This article seeks to survey the development of the German and British communist parties between 1918 and 1933, examining the extent to which their experiences can be compared …
John Peet (1915–1988)
John Peet was the most important interlocutor between Britain and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Through his journal, Democratic German Report ( DGR ), which he edited between 1952 and 1975, Peet had considerable influence among left‐of‐centre public opinion in Britain. His positive portrayal of the GDR was among the GDR's most believable and powerful propaganda in Britain. This articles reassesses Peet's decision to live and work in the G…
Social Fascism’, ‘Stalinisation’ and the Case of the Saxon Communist Party, 1928-9
This article explores the interaction of Anglophone labour and liberals in the process which led to the creation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1919, the first international attempt to legislate sociopolitical and economic standards central to the agendas of both movements. It charts the dynamics between collectivist, mostly British, and voluntarist, mostly American, conceptions of international labour legislation, and analyses…
Stalinization’ and its Limits in the Saxon KPD, 1925–28
Using newly available documentation, this article re-examines the debate on the political development of the German Communist Party (KPD) during the mid-1920s. Initially, the history of the KPD was written as the history of the party’s subordination to Moscow. However, with the rise of social history, historians shifted the focus of their research to the ‘view from below’. Moscow’s omnipresence in the history of German communism was replaced by t…
Social Fascism’, ‘Stalinisation’ and the Case of the Saxon Communist Party, 1928-9
This article explores the interaction of Anglophone labour and liberals in the process which led to the creation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1919, the first international attempt to legislate sociopolitical and economic standards central to the agendas of both movements. It charts the dynamics between collectivist, mostly British, and voluntarist, mostly American, conceptions of international labour legislation, and analyses…
The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924-1933
John Peet (1915–1988)
John Peet was the most important interlocutor between Britain and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Through his journal, Democratic German Report ( DGR ), which he edited between 1952 and 1975, Peet had considerable influence among left‐of‐centre public opinion in Britain. His positive portrayal of the GDR was among the GDR's most believable and powerful propaganda in Britain. This articles reassesses Peet's decision to live and work in the G…
Ostpolitik before Ostpolitik
In 1955 West Germany joined NATO, while East Germany joined the Warsaw Pact. The GDR was not recognized by Britain, as it followed the FRG’s Hallstein doctrine, according to which the FRG was the only legitimate German state. The Labour Party officially had no relations with the GDR, but after 1955 an increasing number of Labour MPs, including some senior figures, travelled to the GDR and openly voiced their opinion that the GDR should be recogni…
Power and the People
In the House of the Hangman
Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern
Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the co
Towards a Comparative History of Communism
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 inspired the formation of communist parties across the world. These, in turn, affiliated to the Communist International founded by the Bolsheviks in 1919, through which the national parties adopted a uniform organization, policy and theory. This article seeks to survey the development of the German and British communist parties between 1918 and 1933, examining the extent to which their experiences can be compared …
In Search of Antifascism
This article examines the role of antifascism in perceptions of the German Democratic Republic in Britain, with a particular emphasis on the British Left. It shows that the GDR deliberately used its self-portrayal as antifascist German state and the inverse portrayal of the Federal Republic of Germany as a state still dominated by old fascists to gain credit in Britain. It was relatively successful in doing so, because many on the British Left sh…
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their interaction with state and party bodies during Erich Honecker’s rule over the communist system. It explores how they were able to resist persecution an…
Between Scylla and Charybdis
This article deals with European Nuclear Disarmament's (END) difficult positioning in the Cold War of the 1980s. Its vision was for a humanistic socialism from below that would be capable of breaking up the Cold War and unite a divided Europe that in turn could act as a possible "third way" between the liberal capitalism of the USA and the orthodox Communism of the Soviet Union. However, it proved difficult to build these alliances across the Col…
Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
History (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economic history (9 works) · European history and politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Communism (7 works) · German (7 works) · Law (7 works)