Miscellaneous communist activists (iv), 1919-1984
Miscellaneous communist activists (iv), 1919-1984
Collection: Notable Individuals of British Communism, 1886–1997 Volumes Miscellaneous communist activists (iv), 1919-1984
Contains material related to the Communist activism of Helen Crawford, Thomas Alfred Jackson, Andrew Rothstein, and Emile Burns. Material covered includes a plethora of autobiographical material on political activism and work for the CPGB, assessments of Comintern policy and writing on the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Autobiographical material by Helen Crawford, c. 1950s
Helen Crawford was a Scottish Communist activist and suffragist. The document is overwhelmingly constituted of material from Crawford’s autobiography, which discusses her involvement in British politics, the First World War,...
Date:1950-1959Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-01
Autobiographical material by Thomas Alfred Jackson (i), 1953
Thomas Alfred Jackson was a Communist activist and writer who served on the CPGB's Executive Committee from 1924 to 1929, before subsequently being fired for not supporting Comintern policy. This...
Date:1953-1953Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-02
Autobiographical material by Thomas Alfred Jackson (ii), 1953
Further autobiographical material related to T. A. Jackson’s book ‘Solo Trumpet’, including revised typescript drafts.
Date:1953-1953Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-03
Material by Vivien Morton on Thomas Alfred Jackson, 1933-1984
This document contains recollections of T. A. Jackson by his daughter Vivien Morton, miscellaneous correspondence to and from Vivien Morton, posters for a memorial lecture on T. A. Jackson, and...
Date:1933-1984Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-04
Andrew Rothstein on the October Revolution and Comintern policy, 1928
Andrew Rothstein was a journalist and lecturer specialising in the Soviet Union. The document contains handwritten notes on the new Comintern policy of ‘Class Against Class’ and its wider implications...
Date:1928-1928Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-05
Emile Burns, 1919-1958
Emile Burns was a Communist Party activist and theoretician. The document contains draft memoirs on her life, detailing her involvement in the suffragette movement, a letter to the Daily Express...
Date:1919-1958Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-misc-09-07
