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The author has \"tried to understand the realities of Soviet society, drawing both upon a superb critical judgment and a warmly sympathetic human insight.\" He \"has given the American public material for thought and a prod in the right direction.\" Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Within the party, the 1950s were characterised by conflict between Labour’s fundamentalist and revisionist wings. Labour’s fundamentalists were led by the charismatic and oratorically brilliant, but politically volatile, figure of Aneurin Bevan. Throughout his political career, Bevan argued that public ownership remained integral to the implementation of socialism.¹ Hugh Gaitskell, who became Labour leader in 1955, was the political figurehead of Labour’s revisionists.² As Stephen Haseler has detailed, the party’s revisionists stated that British capitalism had changed in fundamental ways since the 1920s and 1930s.³ They argued that such changes meant that the implementation of widespread public ownership was no

No visitor to Sheffield can have failed to notice them. Perched high on the rise overlooking Sheffield station, Park Hill flats have been variously described as a fortress, a prison block and by almost everyone as a blot on the landscape. And yet, 50 years ago tomorrow on 16 June 1961, it all seemed so different as Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Opposition, arrived in Sheffield to open the newly built Park Hill council estate. The first residents had already moved in but a new batch was about to arrive as Gaitskell unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion. Alongside him, Roy Hattersley, chairman of the Public Works Committee beamed. It was Hattersley's public works department that had won the contract to build the flats with the lowest offer and had successfully completed the task at 100,000 below their bidding price. Park Hill consisted of one, two, three and four-bedroom flats that would house almost 3,000 people. It was to be a town within a town with shops, a doctor's surgery, dentist, clinic, nursery, school, four pubs and a police station. The access area outside the flats would be 10ft-wide, providing the communal area where children could play and families socialise. There was also a residents' association with a club for young mothers on a Wednesday afternoon, a ladies club in the evening, tombola on Thursday and a youth club on Friday. A survey conducted by the housing department a year after the flats had been officially opened was overwhelmingly positive. Most residents said that they felt \"better off\" in the flats and talked about the magnificent views over the city. Meanwhile, awards were heaped on the designers. Grenville Squires was caretaker at Park Hill for 24 years and lived in the flats. \"When you moved in you were not a stranger for very long,\" he says. \"On a summer's evening people would sit outside their flat nattering until 10, then at 11 we collected all the rubbish from the landings. It was a nice place to live. I was called 'Mr Park Hill' because I had taken care of so many, changing light bulbs, moving furniture and keeping an eye on the elderly.\"

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So a Wykehamist who cavorted with the wealthy Tory wife of James Bond's creator, Amy Fleming, was never going to be loved by his whole party. To his own faction, however, [Hugh Gaitskell] was a hero. Young men such as Roy Jenkins saw this liberally minded bon viveur as the man to bury Labour's association with ration books and hair-shirted sacrifice. But his lowly place in the posthumous pantheon owes more to those in his party who disagreed, and rallied instead to the great working-class rival who branded him \"a desiccated calculating machine\". Where Aneurin Bevan had created the NHS, Gaitskell introduced the first NHS charges to fund an American-led fight in distant Korea. Gaitskell may have had the upper hand more often during the party's 1950s civil war, but there was only going to be one winner in the Labour history stakes.

As with many egotists there was a self-destructive streak to [Bevan]. James Griffiths, deputy leader of Labour in the 50s, said that the Welsh Labour MPs could have won the leadership for Bevan \"but Aneurin had turned his back on us\". A taste for metropolitan existence meant that Bevan, even by the parliamentary standards of his time, was very distant from his Ebbw Vale constituents. And of course he had a thoroughly Marxist view of national identity as a lower stage in historical development: a primitive tribalism that would be replaced by international consciousness. This would have justified Bevan in courses of action he would have been keen on anyway: ignoring other Welsh Labour MPs and removing himself from Wales as much as possible.

The slogan \"man with a plan\" is plagiarised from Hugh Gaitskell,...

SIR - As the first, most serious, troop casualties were being airlifted then taken down to the operating theatres on our aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, at the start of the Suez campaign in 1956, the then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell's radio broadcast...

Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party leader, died at the Middlesex Hospital last night after a \"tremendous fight for life.\" Only his wife was with him in his private ward, and she called a doctor, but it was too late. It is understood that Mr Gaitskell would have died from acute uraemia if an artificial kidney machine had not been brought into use. Mr John Harris, Labour Party spokesman, said that doctors had told him Mr Gaitskell had put up a \"tremendous fight for life\" and had shown \"quite extraordinary courage.\"