CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Cragg, Andrew Michael |
|---|---|
| Title | A Socialist Schism: British socialists' reaction to the downfall of Milosevic |
| Summary | This work charts the contemporary history of the socialist press in Britain, investigating its coverage of world events in the aftermath of the fall of state socialism. In order to do this, two case studies are considered: firstly, the seventy-eight day NATO bombing campaign over the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, and secondly, the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October of 2000. The British socialist press analysis is focused on the Morning Star, the only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world, and the multiple publications affiliated to minor British socialist parties such as the Socialist Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee). The thesis outlines a broad history of the British socialist movement and its media, before moving on to consider the case studies in detail. In particular, it focuses on disagreements and conflicts among the publications of the British left, such as their various attitudes towards former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, while also emphasising cases where their opinion was unified against mainstream press narratives, as in the categorisation of NATO as an imperialist force. The disagreements and conflicts within the socialist press, which constitute the work’s titular “socialist schism,” are considered to be indicative of a leftist movement, shorn of its erstwhile Soviet vanguard, competing amongst themselves for support and authority, with enduring consequences for socialists in Britain today. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha; Petrovic, Vladimir |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/cragg_andrew.pdf |
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