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It was in 1934, a time of radical ferment among Cambridge students, that Kiernan joined the Communist Party. He found his radicalism subsequently reinforced by what he regarded as the treachery of Britains elites.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

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It was in 1934, a time of radical ferment among Cambridge students, that Kiernan joined the Communist Party. He found his radicalism subsequently reinforced by what he regarded as the treachery of Britains elites.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Ideological warrior against Empire

VICTOR GORDON KIERNAN, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Edinburgh University and recognised as one of the most wide-ranging of global historian
JOHN TRUMPBOUR