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Party Animals - My Family and Other Communists (Hardcover)
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'An affectionate and insightful account of 20th-century history
that also amounts to a manifesto for the power of words - and
belonging.' Helen Davies, a Sunday Times Book of the Year In July
1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri
Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the
Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment
of modern communism. But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant
and (had they but known it) historically doomed people? Like a
non-magical version of the wizards of J. K. Rowling's world, they
lived secretly with and parallel to the non-communist majority,
sometimes persecuted, sometimes ignored, but carrying on their own
ways and traditions. Where others went to church they went to
Socialist Sunday School, society's up was their down and its heroes
were their villains. Who wanted American TV when you could have
Russian movies? A memoir of early life among communists, Party
Animals first took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories
of belief and action. But there was much more to it. He found
himself studying the old secret service files, uncovering the
unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background
to his own existence as a party animal. Only then did he begin to
understand what had come before - both the obstinate heroism and
the monstrous cowardice. And the elements that shape our fondest
beliefs.
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