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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: Bolshevik Ball

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42765

Blurb:

This chapter looks at how the perceived threat of Bolshevism could be used to evoke old memories of Ball as a seditious threat. Yet among socialists, Ball was regularly invoked, and in Communist Party circles he was understood from a historical materialist perspective and now employed in the fight against fascism.

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