P.C. Joshi (1907-1980), a legendary figure in the history of Communism, together with the assistance of K. Damodaran (1912-1976), a veteran leader of Communist Movement in India, colleted these materials over a long period. A compilation of source materials, coming from the pen of such a man, who was the General Secretary of the CPI (1936-1948) in the most crucial period in the history of the CPI, therefore, deserves special attention.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P C Joshi
P C Joshi has worked as senior scientist with the Saha Institute of Applied research and Particle Accelerator project, Kolkata. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of technology, Mumbai.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sobhanlal Datta Gupta
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, formerly Surendra Nath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, is the author of, among others, Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India 1919-1943: Dialectics of Real and a Possible History (Kolkata: Seribaan, 2006). His forthcoming title The Socialist Vision and the Silenced Voices of Democracy: New Perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg, Nikolai Bukharin and Georg Lukacs (Kolkata: Seribaan), is expected to be published shortly.
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