Everyday communists in South Africa's liberation struggle : the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker /: the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Everyday communists in South Africa's liberation struggle : the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker /: the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Everyday communists in South Africa's liberation struggle : the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker
- Further Information:
- Note: Alan Kirkaldy.
- Authors:
- Kirkaldy, A
- Contents:
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR'S NOTECHAPTER 2 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, FINDING COMMUNISM AND IVAN AND LESLEY'S EARLY YEARS The CPSA/SACP, the ANC, Transnationalism and African Nationalism Women in the Struggle A Sense of Rootedness: The Colonel The Rural Economy: Transkei and Zululand Traders Foundations of an Activist Ideology: Ivan's Childhood and Youth Radicalising Influences The Party's Paper: Work, the Move to the Guardian and funding the Party Lesley's Family and Youth Developing a Political Ideology and Establishing a Working Career Stalinism CHAPTER 3 PARTNERS IN ACTIVISM - IVAN AND LESLEY Life Partners and Struggle Partners Security Legislation, Repression and Financing the Guardian Growing in the Struggle CHAPTER 4: TIGHTENING REPRESSION: INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, SURVEILLANCE AND DETENTION Security Legislation in the 1960S in context On the Central Committee Funding the Revolution and Supporting its Captured Cadres The State Cracks Down – Becoming a Target, Detention and Torture Women Filling the Gap Stayers vs Leavers in the Struggle Situation of the Left at this time CHAPTER 5: THE TRIAL OF BRAM FISCHER AND 13 OTHERS Awaiting Trial The Accused The Trial Begins Ivan's Defence and Cross-Examination Judgement and Sentence Reflections on Activism – Pre-Incarceration Letters CHAPTER 6: WOMEN PICKING UP THE SPEAR – LESLEY'S INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, ARREST AND TRIAL Increasing Involvement, Further Arrests and Detentions, Clandestine Meetings, Party Funds andCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR'S NOTECHAPTER 2 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, FINDING COMMUNISM AND IVAN AND LESLEY'S EARLY YEARS The CPSA/SACP, the ANC, Transnationalism and African Nationalism Women in the Struggle A Sense of Rootedness: The Colonel The Rural Economy: Transkei and Zululand Traders Foundations of an Activist Ideology: Ivan's Childhood and Youth Radicalising Influences The Party's Paper: Work, the Move to the Guardian and funding the Party Lesley's Family and Youth Developing a Political Ideology and Establishing a Working Career Stalinism CHAPTER 3 PARTNERS IN ACTIVISM - IVAN AND LESLEY Life Partners and Struggle Partners Security Legislation, Repression and Financing the Guardian Growing in the Struggle CHAPTER 4: TIGHTENING REPRESSION: INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, SURVEILLANCE AND DETENTION Security Legislation in the 1960S in context On the Central Committee Funding the Revolution and Supporting its Captured Cadres The State Cracks Down – Becoming a Target, Detention and Torture Women Filling the Gap Stayers vs Leavers in the Struggle Situation of the Left at this time CHAPTER 5: THE TRIAL OF BRAM FISCHER AND 13 OTHERS Awaiting Trial The Accused The Trial Begins Ivan's Defence and Cross-Examination Judgement and Sentence Reflections on Activism – Pre-Incarceration Letters CHAPTER 6: WOMEN PICKING UP THE SPEAR – LESLEY'S INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, ARREST AND TRIAL Increasing Involvement, Further Arrests and Detentions, Clandestine Meetings, Party Funds and Hiding Bram Fischer Lesley's Arrest and Detention and Bram Fischer's Preliminary Hearing Those who gave State Evidence Tightening the Net Further – Lelsey and Violet's Trial Caught in the Crossfire – The Children CHAPTER 7: PRISON LIFE 'Politicals' and 'Non-Politicals' Ivan A More Nationalist Focus The Routine of Prison Life Lesley The Fort Barberton Changing Ideology CHAPTER 8: AFTERMATH Lesley's Release Ivan's Release Disillusionment with Exiles and Cementing a More Nationalist Ideology Helping those Left Behind in Prison Other Activities and Making a Living in Defiance of Restrictive Measures Declining Health and Death REFERENCES ARCHIVAL SOURCES UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, NOTES, ADDRESSES AND RECOLLECTIONS INTERVIEWS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES JOURNAL ARTICLES BOOKS CHAPTERS IN BOOKS UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES THESES AND DISSERTATIONS INTERNET SOURCES. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 968.06
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030839215
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030839208
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.649678
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