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Topic: Communist Party Historians Group

	the British Marxist historians and 1956
		Party for is failure to discuss publicly the implications for the Br.
		Party of the 20th Congress CPSU [the group was told in reply that the Congress decided its own procedure] and with the failure of the Pty leadership to make a public statement of regret for the Br.
		Party's past uncritical endorsement of all Soviet policies and views, the meeting calling upon it to make one as soon as possible, as well as to initiate the widest possible public discussion of all the problems involved for the Br.
	www.dkrenton.co.uk /communist_historians.html (354 words)

	The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network
		Historians have noted the roots of American anticommunism in what they refer to as the nation's countersubversive tradition: the irrational notion that outsiders (who could be political dissidents, foreigners, or members of racial and religious minorities) threatened the nation from within.
		His vision of the Communist menace extended far beyond the Communist party to almost any group that challenged the established social, economic, or racial order, and he was to dedicate his entire professional career to combating that menace.
		Franco as the Communist party was to the Loyalist regime.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/anticom-network.html (2758 words)

	Communist Party of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communist parties across the world.
		The CPGB was formed by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties: the British Socialist Party, the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist Labour Party and the South Wales Socialist Society.
		In January 1921, the CPGB was refounded after the majorities of Sylvia Pankhurst's group the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International), and the Scottish Communist Labour Party agreed to unity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain (3154 words)

	UCLA CEES: Eric Hobsbawm Speaks on His New Memoir
		The world famous historian Eric J. Hobsbawm was an honored guest of UCLA's Center for European and Eurasian Studies January 29 for a talk and discussion of his best-selling memoir, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Knopf, August 2003).
		Communists thought that it was more important than that, but even noncommunists thought that without the Communist Party, without the Soviet Union, Hitler could not be defeated.
		People who were not in favor of the Soviet Union, who were anti-Stalinist, official Communist parties which condemned, for instance, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, bitterly, officially, the parties did, and consequently there was no particular reason why if you hadn't left after the immediate trauma of fifty-six you should necessarily leave afterward.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /euro/article.asp?parentid=7315 (8443 words)

	Christopher Hill
		Later in Balliol, Hill became a Marxist and jonined the Communist Party.
		However, Hill soon became dicontent with the lack of democracy in the Communist Party.
		He left the party in 1956, after one of his report was rejected.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Christopher_Hill.html (298 words)

	Blind Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Communist movement was like religion in that one was fully consumed by it and gave oneself over to it entirely: "The party was what our life was about.
		aspect in which belonging to the Communist Party was not like belonging to a religious group: the party claimed to rely not on blind faith but on rational arguments and "scientific socialism." Thus, when the party line was ridiculous, one would expect a reasonable individual to refuse to endorse it.
		What drove them to reconcile themselves to party policy was a notion of self-sacrifice: they put away their personal objections for the sake of the greater good.
	www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue36/Ganev36.htm (2158 words)

	Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		American Communist History is a non-partisan, objective journal for scholarship about the history of the Communist Party in the United States and its social, political, economic and cultural impact on its members, on its opponents, and the public at large.
		The journal deals with the American party and with the various outside influences which have dealt with its representation, with the controversial folklore that has been engendered about it, and with the many differing views about its antecedents, and its diverse opponents on the Left and Right.
		American Communist History deals in detail with the various interpretations defining the role of the Communist Party, its front groups, its opponents, and Soviet agents in the United States within and on the Left and the Right.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/14743892.asp (596 words)

	The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1a)
		The national policy of the Yugoslav communists was an ideological and national negation of the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which the Serbs saw as their own - the heir to the political traditions and democratic institutions of the Kingdom of Serbia.
		Serbian communists in whose hands was the fate of the republic made feeble and pathetic attempts in the late 70's to improve within the framework of the existing system the position of Serbs in Kosovo.
		The failure of the Serbian communists in late eighties to comprehend the extent of the international repercussions of the ethnic strife in Yugoslavia, and pretentious in the worst Titoistic manner, incapacitated an active communication of Serbia with the centers of political and economic power in the world.
	www.snd-us.com /history/dusan/kc_part1a.htm (8306 words)

	Marxism - Search View - MSN Encarta
		At that time the meaning of the term “communist” was quite different from that acquired in the 20th century when communism became the official ideology of the Soviet Union.
		In capitalism the fundamental relation, the wage relation, is based on a contract between juridically equal parties: the owners of capital (capitalists) pay the workers (the proletariat) wages in return for an agreed number of working hours.
		Before 1914 the dominant orthodoxy was that propounded by the best-organized socialist party of the time, the German SPD, and by its leading thinker, Karl Kautsky, who stressed the inevitability of capitalism’s collapse.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_781528411__1/Marxism.html (3765 words)

	CPUSA Online - FAQ's
		The Communist Party USA is in favor of socialized medicine, guaranteed retirement in the form of improved social security benefits, strengthened environmental protection, full funding of education, amnesty for immigrants, and democratization of all regulatory agencies.
		Communist Parties in countries with more repressive or fascist governments have to focus more on centralism and security than we have had to over the last 30 years.
		Our Party feels that the only way to get to a successful revolution is to win workers and their allies to struggles for reform, leading them to a consciousness of their own power, and to an awareness of the limits placed on real solutions by the capitalist system.
	www.cpusa.org /article/static/511 (12176 words)

	Reading the Maps: 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It had a calamitous effect on the Stalinised Communist Parties of the West, driving members from their ranks and into the amorphous and unstable new political groupings sometimes referred to by historians as 'the Old New Left'.
		The Communist Party Historians Group, whose work in the decade after the Second World War transformed the study of English and world history and still inspires reverence today, never recovered its lustre after 1956.
		We had hoped that the revelations made at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would have made our leadership and press realise that Marxist ideas will only be acceptable in the British Labour movement if they arise from the truth about the world we live in.
	readingthemaps.blogspot.com /2006/11/1956.html (936 words)

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		Hobsbawm was a member of the Communist party historians' group of 1946-56, which included EP Thompson and Christopher Hill, and in 1952 he co-founded the influential journal, Past and Present, whose contributors included many non-Marxists.
		Jewish party members, both the native and the foreign-born, were sincerely devoted to the idea of internationalism and they would have vehemently rejected the very notion of some parochial Jewish nationalism or ethnic favoritism.
		Jewish party members sought out and welcomed non-Jews as members or leaders if only because this was proof of the Americanizing of the party, which was so desirable for an organization that had a large foreign-born composition in the early years of its existence.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2002-September.txt (14649 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The answer is simple: because of his blind loyalty to the communist party to which he belonged and thus to the Soviet Union and Stalin.
		Large parts of Hobsbawm’s autobiography is an elaborate justification of why he, despite many reservations, remained loyal to the Soviet Union and even to the CPGB when all his comrades in the Historians’ Group had left after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.
		Hobsbawm remained a party member because, he says, his communist roots were central European; communism meant “not simply fighting fascism but the world revolution’’.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1021020/asp/opinion/story_1305942.asp (1197 words)

	Marxist historiography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historians who use Marxist methodology, but disagree with the mainstream of Marxism, often describe themselves as marxist historians (with a lowercase M).
		Notable histories include the Short Course History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik), published in the 1930s, which was written in order to justify the nature of Bolshevik party life under Joseph Stalin.
		While some members of the group left the CPGB after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the common points of British Marxist historiography continued in their works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxist_historiography (816 words)

	THE RHETORICS OF THE PAST: HISTORY, ARGUMENT, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
		That is, the past is not the possession of historians, for they occupy but one demographic category of human being with claims to understand and possess portions of the past.
		A key opening move for any historian involves framing the period that is about to be interpreted, for such framing sets out the domain of the writer--the bracked segments of time and space that will be turned into historical discourse.
		Historians set brackets and articulate causal connections between contexts and events in order to naturalize or make coherent the stories and interpretations they are offering.
	www.uiowa.edu /~commstud/faculty/gronbeck/gronbeck02.htm (5529 words)

	The radical who rewrote British history - smh.com.au
		His contemporary, R.W. Southern, once teasingly remembered "a time when Christopher was not in the least bit leftish", but Hill was an undergraduate during the Depression, the hunger marches, the New Deal, Hitler's rise (he visited the Weimar Republic before going up to Oxford), and the first (favourable) impact of Stalin in the West.
		The discussions surrounding Hill's essay produced in 1946 the Communist Party Historians Group, an association he regarded as "the greatest single influence" on his subsequent work.
		Hill had grown disenchanted with the British party's lack of democracy and its reluctance to criticise the Soviet Union.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/28/1046407752685.html (1971 words)

	Communist Party Historians Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The SHS is the successor to the Communist Party History Group, established in 1946.
		The society is now entirely independent of all political parties and groups.
		The Communist Party Historians' (later: History) Group produced various series of publications between 1946 and 1991.
	www.amielandmelburn.org.uk /collections/shs/index_frameset1.htm (129 words)

	Eric Hobsbawn
		Yet you also bring out the historical context for joining the Communist Party - the battle against fascism on the streets of 1930s Berlin and a strong sense of the idealism of the October Revolution.
		You stayed in the party after 1956 partly because of solidarity to the fallen and partly because of a belief in a societal ideal.
		Eric Hobsbawn: Most communists and indeed most socialists disagreed at the time (1980s) with the few of us who said it's absolutely no use, the Labour Party has got to go in a different direction.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /HIShobsbawm.htm (1428 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Labour History: United Kingdom
		BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution This study group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies aims to help promote new approaches to the study of the Russian revolution between the 1880s and 1932.
		Socialist History Society A group based in the UK concerned with the study of history from a socialist perspective, broadly defined.
		Chartist Ancestors For family historians wanting to find their radical roots in the Chartist movement of the nineteenth century.
	www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/unitedkingdom.html (2444 words)

	Communists for KERRY
		Senator John Kerry, who after losing the 2004 election was purged and declared "non-person" by CommunistsForKerry.com (CFK), a powerful pressure group that acts as a shadow Politburo behind the DNC, may now be forgiven and allowed to resume his revolutionary duties for his successful exposure of a CIA spy yesterday.
		Vodka and pirozhki waited on the dinner table as Communists For Kerry gathered around the TV to watch the advance of the revolution and exchanged war stories...
		Komrad Hillary has humbly suggested to take over, as the rest of the Party melts away into the countryside, which is all red, and regroup for the '08 election.
	communistsforkerry.com (2881 words)

	Communist Party in the South West - LSHG Message Board
		Communist Party in the South West - LSHG Message Board
		Does anyone have any material etc. on communist party activity in the south west especially in plymouth.
		That is, free use may be made of the material here, provided that the same conditions apply to the reproduced material.
	www.londonsocialisthistorians.org /messageboard/showthread.php?t=38 (124 words)

	Raphael Samuel
		Samuel, a Marxist, became a member of the Communist Party.
		The standard charge against the history Samuel inspired was of a fanatical empiricism and a romantic merging of historians and their subjects in crowded narratives, in which each hard-won detail of working lives, wrenched from the cold indifference of posterity, is piled upon another, in a relentless rescue of the past.
		Raphael Samuel was one of the most prominent historians in the country to support history from below the attempt to actively recover the history of ordinary people and their movements.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /HISsamuelR.htm (447 words)

	What type of thing is "liberalism"? \| Turnabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The telling influence upon these people was the leading role of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the Popular Front against fascism.
		Meanwhile, in the practical field the pro-Soviet enthusiasm of the Webbs had infected the Labour Party, and class struggle replaced self-help as the means of working class advancement.
		This was the grounding from which marxism economic and cultural bifurcated, the latter much fertilised by the influence of the Frankfurt philosophers (soon to return from America to Germany) and, much later, of Antonio Gramsci.
	turnabout.ath.cx:8000 /node/1106 (1679 words)

	Glossary of People: Hi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet it was as the defining Marxist historian of the century of revolution, the title of one of the most widely studied of his many books, that he became known to generations of students around the world.
		No historian of recent times was so synonymous with his period of study; he is the reason why most of us know anything about the 17th century at all.
		The discussions surrounding Hill's essay also produced, in 1946, the Communist Party Historians Group, an association he regarded as “the greatest single influence” on his subsequent work.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/h/i.htm (2789 words)

	Solidarity activist Ken Weller on the Communist Party Historians' Group in 1956
		I read your piece with interest since I was a member and used to go to its meetings at the Marx Memorial Library in the mid 50s, although I had a strong interest in labour history, at that time I was strictly a consumer, I was a young YCLer in my early 20s.
		It is often forgotten that a significant number of members/attendees at the meetings of the historians group were not academics, as well as myself the were others, I remember a docker and others.
		Guy Aldred in Glasgow produced a series a papers and pamphlets which were strongly critical of the party from the left, they are quite a valuable source.
	www.dkrenton.co.uk /1956.html (553 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions
		Another argument against the interviews and GD is that persons conducting these interviews and group discussions are changed during the course of the interviews and thus there is a lack of consistency.
		In scholarship proper he belonged to the highly reputed British Communist Party Historians Group of the nineteen forties of whom the ones known best in India are Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill and E.P. Thompson.
		These brilliant historians sparked each other off to examine many aspects of what began to be called “bottom up” history, seeing history from the perspective of people at the base.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031214/edit.htm (5363 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Associations and Societies
		Dublin Labour Studies Group "A forum for the discussion of issues in labour economics".
		Telecommunications History Group THG maintains and operates one of the nation's largest privately held telecommunications archives and operates two small museums.
		International Conference of Labour and Social History Founded in 1964, in Vienna, Austria, the International Conference of Labour Historians is an umbrella organization of labour history research institutions and associations and indivual labour historians.
	www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/associationsandsocieties.html (2276 words)

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