Socialist History, the first fifteen issues 1993—1999

Edited by Willie Thompson et al, containing a wide range of articles

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First editions. Card covers, further details below.

This is a collection of the first fifteen issues of Socialist History, a journal described by Willie Thompson in his introduction to the first issue as focussing ‘upon socialist history in both senses of the term, namely the history of the specifically socialist (as distinct from the broader labour) movement … and on history produced from a socialist perspective but according to the highest standards of evidence and analysis’. Each issue carries a lengthy essay or number of articles, review etc. The first twelve were published by the Pluto Press, the last three by Rivers Oram Press.

Issue 1: A Bourgeois Revolution? Seventeenth-century England (pieces by Brian Manning & Willie Thompson). 64pp.

Issue 2: What was Communism? (Pieces by Sarah Benton, Bea Campbell, Manty Johnstone, and Nina Temple), also Kevin Morgan on the CPGB and the Comintern Archives, Janos Jemnitz on Labour and Politics. 64pp.

Issue 3: What was Communism? II. Including Mike Squires on The CPGB and 'Class against Class', and Steve Parsons on The Tragedy of the Purges. 64pp.

Issue 4: The Labour Party since 1945. Including work by Brian Brivati on Hugh Gaitskell and the EEC, and Mark Evans on Constitutional Doctrine and Revisionism in the Labour Party. 64pp.

Issue 5: The Left and Culture. Including Andy Croft on Writers, the Communist Party and the Battle of Ideas, 1945–1950, and Stephen Woodhams on Against the Wosdom of the Age: Writing, Culture and Politics in the Cold War. 64pp.

Issue 6: The Personal and the Political. Including Mike Waite on The Young Communist League and Youth Culture; Yvonne Kapp on Frederick Demuth: New Evidence from Old Sources; and Edward Thompson, 1924–1993: Scholar and Activist. 64pp.

Issue 7: Fighting the Good Fight? Including Raymond Challinor, Peter Bain, Tommy Gorman and Dave Morgan on The Second World War and After; Chris Bryant on Christianity and Socialism, 128pp.

Issue 8: Historiography and the British Marxist Historians. Including John Callaghan on the road to 1956; an Interview with Eric Hobsbawm; Andy Croft and Harvey Kaye on E P Thompson; and Steve Woodhams on Raymond Williams. 128pp.

Issue 9: Labour Movements. Including David Kennedy on the decline of the Socialist Party of America 1901–1919; Roger Magraw on writings on the history of the French working class; Wolfgang Weber on communist life in rural Austria; Tauno Saarela on class struggle in the cemetery; Archie Potts on a socialist Valhalla; and John Newsinger on George Orwell and Searchlight. 128pp.

Issue 10: Revisions? Including An interview with John Monks; Roger Spalding on Michael Foot and the Labour left; Alison Macleod recalls the reaction of the Daily Worker to Hungary; John Newsinger assesses Roy Foster's writings on the Great Famine; David Morgan on new findings from the Moscow archives; and Roy Copeland on the prospects and precedents for a Labour Government. 128pp.

Issue 11: The Cold War. Including Fred Halliday on US Policy in the Cold War; Heather Williams on Yugoslavia and the Tito-Stalin split; Don Watson on Konni Zilliacus MP; John Saville on the Cold War in the Mediterranean; and Archie Potts on the Soviet economic weakness. 128pp.

Issue 12: Nationalism and Communist Party History. Including Tom Nairn on the implications of a devolved Scottish parliament; David Parker on the Communist Party Historians' Group; and Jo Stanley on the CPGB History. 128pp.

Issue 13: Imperialism and Internationalism. IncludingVictor Kiernan on Empires and Umpires; Ralph Russell on Indian Nationalism; Anna Davin on Aliens and Littl Britons; Bill McCaig on An Illegal Immigrant in South Africa; and David Morgan on Delegation to Kurdistan. 102pp.

Issue 14: The Future of History. Including Brian Manning on The English revolution; and Roger Spalding on Popular Historiography in the Second World War. 103pp.

Issue 15: Visions of the Future. Including David Purdy on Utopianism; Philip Coupland on 'Utopia' in British Popular Culture; Maureen Speller on The Way the Future Was; David Burke and Fred Lindop on Theodore Rothstein and the Origins of the British Communist Party. 98pp.

Condition

All copies are in strong readable condition, with one or two issues having some sunning to the spines.