‘Peace with a Capital P’: The Spectre of Communism and Competing Notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q4 Arts and Humanities
N. Barnett, E. Smith
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Abstract

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sections, and despite attempts by groups like the Peace Pledge Union to distance themselves from the communistcontrolled British Peace Committee, popular perceptions were tainted by association with communism until the mid-1950s. Following the onset of the H-bomb era, this taint lessened as people began to fear the destructiveness of hydrogen weapons. When the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament formed in 1958 it became the predominant British organization opposed to nuclear weapons and achieved popularity because it limited its objective to nuclear disarmament whereas the Peace Pledge Union demanded the condemnation of all war.
“大写P的和平”:1949-1960年英国共产主义的幽灵和“和平”的竞争概念
本文关注的是20世纪50年代和60年代初英国和平运动中的不同派别,每个派别都赋予了“和平”一词不同的含义。我们认为,这场运动是由几个经常相互矛盾的部分组成的,尽管和平承诺联盟(Peace Pledge Union)等团体试图与共产党控制的英国和平委员会(British Peace Committee)保持距离,但直到20世纪50年代中期,公众对共产主义的看法都受到了影响。随着氢弹时代的到来,人们开始担心氢武器的破坏性,这种污染减轻了。当核裁军运动于1958年成立时,它成为英国反对核武器的主要组织,并因其将目标限制在核裁军上而广受欢迎,而和平承诺联盟要求谴责一切战争。
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