“This is a biography of many facets offering a wealth of insight and textual content of particular relevance in the context of gender studies. It tells us much of the status of nurses in Britain in the 1930s. It is also an important contribution to the history of the International Brigades and the Republican medical services in the Spanish civil war and adds nuance to our knowledge of foreigners in China in a turbulent period of its history. The story of Patience will surely appeal to many general readers as well as to specialists in those fields.” From the Preface by Series Editor Paul Preston

Product Description: This new Che Guevara book makes an insightful contribution to the revival of interest in Marxism.Commenting on Marx’s humanism, Che writes: “Such a humane man, whose capacity for affection extended to all those suffering throughout the world, offering a message of committed struggle and indomitable optimism, has been distorted by history and turned into a stone idol...read more

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Product Description: The book also depicts the tragic fate of groups of British Communists who encountered Stalinism at first hand in the USSR. Much of the information in this section, as elsewhere in the book, is the result of new research on released material form previously closed archives in Moscow...read more

Product Description: J. T. Murphy was one of the most important worker-intellectual figures of early twentieth-century British labour history. Using completely new and previously unpublished material (from the British Communist Party’s archives and the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Recent History in Moscow), this book not only tells the fascinating story of Murphy’s political trajectory, but also provides a critical re-examination of the historical and social significance of the early British revolutionary movement in which he played such a prominent role...read more

In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing details her membership in the Communist Party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, love, and sex, and profiles of such famous as people as Nelson Algren, Henry Kissinger, and others.

Product Description: For the generation which lived through World War II, Harry Pollitt was the epitome of British Communism. This bibliography tells his story from his origins in the mill-town of Droylsden, through his tumultuous years as General Secretary of the British Communist party from 1929-1956, to his ultimate disillusionment with the Stalinist project in the wake of Krushchev's revelations...read more

The author, one English wife of a Czech communist, recounts her experiences as an outsider in Prague from 1945 until 1968, when the Russian invasion forced her to leave