Based on the Communist Party archives at Manchester, this book examines the decline of Marxism in Britain over the last sixty years.

Keith Laybourn is Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He has written extensively on British labour history, British social policy and women in twentieth-century Britain.

1. The Communist Party of Great Britain during the Emergence of the Cold War 1945-1956 2. The Emergence of the Broad Left 1957-1960 3. The Red Seventies: Industrial Conflict and the Emergence of Eurocommunism 1971-1979 4. The Challenge of Thatcherism, The Triumph of Eurocommunism and the Collapse of 'Stalinism' 1980-1991 5. Postscript: The Re-Emergence and Reconstruction of Marxism in Britain or 'All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go'. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index