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Book review: The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space After the Cold War

descendants of former slaves in Britain and elsewhere even in the face of slavery’s ongoing socially regressive and harmful legacies. As a revised and more nuanced public memory of slavery that speaks to a common humanity and a shared, if unequal, history, but one that also openly acknowledges the darker aspects of Britain’s colonial past, such memorial revisionism has become embedded in a much larger and politically contentious arena of debate within an increasingly culturally diverse yet fragmented British nation gripped by pre-occupations with identity politics and, for some, the stoking of division. Set against that larger background, Moody’s book is timely and instructive. Though each is important in its own right, it offers more than an academic meditation on theories of memory or an enlightening study of how memories of slavery have evolved in Liverpool, the one-time “slaving capital of the world.” It provides, too, an insightful case study of how evolving and contested memories of Britain’s colonial and slave past are reshaping the 21st century cultural and political landscape of the nation as a whole. As such, it merits attention from all scholars interested in the relationship between historical memory and the culture wars it helps to inform in contemporary Britain, the United States, and other places.