See J. McIlroy, ‘Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and some Revisionist Historians’, Revolutionary History, 8, 1, 2002, pp. 195-226. See, in particular, the final section, "As Socialists and historians we have to be on constant guard against its ['revisionism's'] methods and conclusions".
‘Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and some Revisionist Historians’
Revolutionary History
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195
226
B. D. Palmer, ‘Communist History: Seeing it Whole. A Reply to Critics’, American Communist History, 2, 2, 2003, pp. 205, 212.
‘Communist History: Seeing it Whole. A Reply to Critics’
American Communist History
2
205
For a more complete critique of Campbell and McIlroy's approach, see G. Cohen and K. Morgan, ‘British Students at the International Lenin School, 1926-37: A Reaffirmation of Methods, Results, and Conclusions’, Twentieth Century British History, 15, 1, 2004, pp. 77-107.
‘British Students at the International Lenin School, 1926-37: A Reaffirmation of Methods, Results, and Conclusions’
Twentieth Century British History
15
77
107
A. Campbell and J. McIlroy, ‘Histories of the British Communist Party: A User's Guide’, Labour History Review, 68, 1, 2003, pp. 42-4.
‘Histories of the British Communist Party: A User's Guide’
Labour History Review
68
42
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See, in particular, A. Campbell, ‘The Communist Party and the Scots Coalfield in the Interwar Period’, in G. Andrews, N. Fishman, K. Morgan (eds), Opening the Books: Essays on the Social and Cultural History of British Communism, London, Pluto Press, 1995.
Opening the Books: Essays on the Social and Cultural History of British Communism
See M. Worley (ed.), In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period, London, I. B. Tauris, 2004.
In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period
See, for example, the conditions on forming ‘red’ trade unions, in Executive Committee of the Communist International, The World Situation and Economic Struggle: Theses of the Tenth Plenum ECCI, London, 1929.
A. Campbell, The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939, Volume II: Trade Unions and Politics, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, pp. 267-367.
The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939, Volume II: Trade Unions and Politics
267
367
I. MacDougall (ed.), Militant Miners: Recollections of John McArthur, Buckhaven: and Letters, 1924-26, of David Proudfoot, Methil, to G. Allen Hutt, Edinburgh, Polygon Books, pp. 138-9; Meeting of the Political Secretariat of the ECCI, 10 December 1928, Communist Archive, National Museum of Labour History (NMLH), Manchester. In his report on the situation in Britain, Harry Pollitt refers to the Fife miners’ desire to form a new union in the Fife coalfield.
Militant Miners: Recollections of John McArthur, Buckhaven: and Letters, 1924-26, of David Proudfoot, Methil, to G. Allen Hutt
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F. Westacott, Shaking the Chains: A Personal and Political History, Chesterfield, Joe Clark, 2002, p. 80.
Shaking the Chains: A Personal and Political History
80
Labour Monthly, June-August 1929; Communist Review, August 1929.
Daily Worker, 20 July 1932.
See Daily Worker and Communist Review from August 1932.