David Caute

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MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781839762451
• ISBN-10: 1839762454
• Artikelnr.: 62592423

Autorenporträt

David Caute, a quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. His recent books include Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic; Politics and the Novel During the Cold War; and The Dancer Defects.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Sources ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
PART I 9
1. MI5 and the First World War 11
2. MI5 and the Communist Party of Great Britain 30
PART II 45
3. Dangerous Voices, Disloyal Pens 47
4. Theatre and Players 98
5. Film Censorship 118
6. Discordant Musicians 125
PART III 133
7. History as Heresy 135
8. Veteran Academics 178
9. Black Liberation and the Africanists 186
PART IV 219
10. Science and Treachery 221
PART V 255
11. Not to Be Trusted 257
12. Illegitimate Lawyers 271
13. Publish and Be Damned 284
14. The BBC Toes the Line 300
15. Art and Design 312
PART VI 339
16. MI5 and the Labour Left 341
Conclusion. MI5 and ‘Subversion’ 356