Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: The communist life cycle: the early years
1. In the home: communist mothercraft and child rearing
2. Into the Party structure: the communist children movement
3. A bright and purposeful life: youth and the Young Communist League
PART II: The communist life cycle: adulthood
4. A single communist personality?: communist couples and Red families
5. Being in a familiar place: the life of the adult activist
PART III: The communist life cycle: Shaping communists
6. Tending the communist body: the quest for physical fitness
7. Communist life style: fostering correct habits, good behaviour, and right ways of living
8. Communists at play
9. Culture from below: a culture for proletarians
PART IV: The communist life cycle: end of the cycle
10. In memoriam
Afterword
Select bibliography
Index

About the Author

Thomas Linehan is Lecturer in History at Brunel University