Remembrance and revolution

CW starts 2010 with two new Battle in Print essays. Ted Harrison reflects on the meaning of poppy day, and suggests changes are needed if the tradition is to serve its original purpose. And Ashley Frawley notes the ubiquity of the carnivalesque in contemporary political protest, and critically examines its true significance. Meanwhile, Sarah Boyes reviews Helen Rappaport’s new biography of Lenin, and suggests her more personal focus reflects a wider contemporary ambivalence about politics and history-making.

Happy new year!

7 January 2010