Biblioteca / 2020-2029
Terry Irving. The Fatal Lure of Politics. The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe.
Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2020.
CONTENTS
Introduction
A Death in the Cold War
Part 1
Growing up into Revolution: Sydney and Oxford 1892–1917
1 – Living in a Divided City
2 – Students and Workers
3 – Socialists and Cooperators
4 – A Cold Northern Superculture
5 – More Outspoken than Any Other
Part 2
Labour Intellectual: Australia 1917–1921
6 – No Compromise
7 – ‘A certain vacillation’
8 – ‘Yours for the revolution’
9 – Labour’s Mediating Intellectuals
10 – The World of Labour
11 – A State within the State
12 – The Intelligence Department
13 – The Premier’s Minder
Part 3
An Unknown Member of the Proletariat: London 1921–1926
14 – The Dismissal
15 – A Pauper Colonial
16 – How Labour Governs and The Dawn
17 – ‘A movement that will have to go further’
18 – Science as Communism
19 – A Grand and Hopeful Experiment
20 – An Absolutely Sincere Approach to the Party
21 – 1956
22 – A Sentimental Excursion
23 – ‘Australia today is far from a socialist society’
Coda: Childe’s Revolutions and the Fatal Lure
Bibliography