Progress Review: 'From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the Socialist Left in Australia, 1918 – 1925' - Duncan Hart

This thesis seeks to understand the socialist left in Australia at the end of WWI, when it was at a relative peak in terms of size and influence, and why it contracted by 1925 to relative obscurity. The thesis discusses the broad environment of the socialist left by 1918, and discusses how each section reacted to the political challenge represented by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the new Communist International. The thesis discusses to what extent the political challenge of Communism and the institutional embrace of the socialist left by the Australian Labor Party contributed to the decline.