Radical Students by Alan Barcan PAPERBACK 9780522876963

Radical StudentsAuthor(s): Alan Barcan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Melbourne University Press, Australia\nImprint: Melbourne University Press\nISBN-13: 9780522876963, 978-0522876963\nSynopsis\nRadical Students will stir the blood of those who were there, and make stimulating reading for those Australians who care about education, politics and liberal thought.\n\nFrom the 1920s to the 1960s the Australian Left struggled to make ideological sense of the Great Depression, the growth of fascism and militarism overseas, World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War and fear of communism.\n\nAll these issues found expression on the campus of Australia's oldest university, where ardent youth pursued the ideal of social justice. Sydney's controversial philosophy professor John Anderson and his Freethought Society added volatility to the mix with their rejection of orthodox politics. Later, impassioned hostility between supporters of the Communist Party, the Labor Party and the Catholic 'Mov.