Speeches, articles, and research material, 1948-1964
Speeches, articles, and research material, 1948-1964
Collection: Communism in Crisis in Britain and Abroad, 1931–1979 Volumes Speeches, articles, and research material, 1948-1964
A range of research material, speeches, and articles on theoretical and practical issues of communism. This includes writings examining revolutionary and peaceful transitions to socialism and capitalist crises and its relation to democracy and fascism. The volume also contains funeral arrangements for Harry Pollitt and official CPGB statements on a number of issues.
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Research material for an article on ‘The Transition to Socialism’, 1948
Examining the transition to socialism in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
Date:1948-1964Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-05-03
Research material on the ‘Peaceful Transition to Socialism’, 1960-1964
Handwritten research notes including research notes on the 1917 Russian Revolution and the conditions in which peaceful transition may have been possible, a copy of World Marxist Review which features...
Date:1960-1964Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-05-04
Draft writings on ‘Democracy and the Class Struggle’, n.d.
Draft copies of an article by Gollan titled ‘Democracy and the Class Struggle’, in which he examines the perceived failures of Western democracy through the perspective of communist class struggle.
Date:1948-1964Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-05-05
Research material on ‘Democracy and the Class Struggle’, n.d.
This document contains material from articles relating to socialist and bourgeois democracy. The collection consists of typescripts and articles from the 1960s outlining the Communist Party’s perspectives on means of...
Date:1948-1964Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-05-06
Draft writings on the ‘British Road to Socialism’, 1964
Examining social conditions in Britain and how socialism might be implemented in the country, discussing the Sino-Soviet split and the implications for socialist revolution, written for the Soviet journal ‘A...
Date:1964-1964Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-05-07
Lecture notes on the ‘General Crisis in Capitalism’, 1971-1972
Handwritten notes for a lecture on the ‘General Crisis in Capitalism’.
Date:1971-1972Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-06-01
Research material on the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’, 1976
Including handwritten notes and draft copies of an article on the dictatorship of the proletariat and it’s relevance to the ‘British Road to socialism’.
Date:1976-1976Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-06-02
Miscellaneous draft reports delivered to CPGB committees, 1956-1963
Contains a report titled ‘The Problem of Leadership’ discussing who should lead the working class against capitalism in Britain, a report on the ‘Italian Road to Socialism’, a political report...
Date:1956-1963Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-06-03
