This is the first English translation of a historic document, secretly prepared in 1932 by M.N. Ryutin (1890-1937), a veteran Bolshevik, and his colleagues, under the aegis of the Union of Marxists-Leninists, an “Organization for the Defence of Marxism-Leninism.” The document, which is a devastating critique of the Stalinist model of Soviet socialism and highlights the importance of restoration of Leninist norms in Soviet political life, is ...
After the opening of Moscow's Comintern archives and the archives of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1990s, this is the first full-length study of the impact of the Communist International (Comintern) on the shaping of Indian Communism. Based on materials collected from these once forbidden archives, the book also takes into consideration the private papers of Horst Krueger in Berlin, a whole range of inner-party documents and the new Comintern ...
A Documented History of the Communist Movement in India 1917-1922: Select Materials from Archives on Contemporary History (In 2 Volumes)
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.
