Miscellaneous correspondence, cultural works and political files and memoirs, 1925-1977
Miscellaneous correspondence, cultural works and political files and memoirs, 1925-1977
Collection: Communism and Popular Culture in the 20th Century Volumes Miscellaneous correspondence, cultural works and political files and memoirs, 1925-1977
These records include correspondence regarding both potential and actual publications by Montagu, Dobb, Ehrenburg and other communist authors. Material relating to the debate between Montagu and R. Palme Dutt on whether Britain should go to war with Germany, the Israel-Palestine question, the pre-war indictment of the German Communist Party leader by the Nazi government and the post-war congress for peace paint a vivid picture of the debates surrounding the Second World War. Additionally, this volume features papers relating to Montagu's potential candidacy for the Hammersmith Constituency in 1951. Translations of 100 Chinese "peace poems" are located alongside a book on the subject of teaching singing.
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Correspondence with Ilya Ehrenburg and his family, 1950-1977
Ilya Ehrenburg was a prolific Soviet writer and Bolshevik revolutionary. The document includes correspondence with him as well as his wife Lyuba.
Date:1950-1977Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-10
Correspondence with Palme Dutt, 1940-1970
Correspondence between Ivor Montagu and Palme Dutt, who was chief theoretician of the Communist Party of Britain. The file contains fraught conversations including discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and British...
Date:1940-1970Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-09
Lifelong correspondence with Maurice Dobb, 1925-1968
Maurice Dobb was a British Marxist economist with links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The files contains the life long correspondence between Dobb and Ivor Montagu.
Date:1925-1968Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-08
'Recollections and Reflections of an Angry teacher of Singing', 1960-1967
A prospective book called 'Recollections and Reflections of an Angry teacher of Singing' by Georges Cunelli. The book consists of two parts: the former is an autobiographical account of how...
Date:1960-1967Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-07
Correspondence with Bancroft Clark, 1928-1932
Correspondence of a personal nature with Bancroft Clark. Topics discussed include travelling, business and reading.
Date:1928-1932Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-06
Chinese poems translated by Rewi Alley, 1952
Material pertaining to Rewi Alley and Montagu’s joint project of translating a hundred Chinese poems into English. This includes correspondence as well as the English versions of the poems themselves.
Date:1952-1952Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-05
Papers related to Montagu’s election candidature in North Hammersmith, 1945-1951
Montagu stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Communist Party of Great Britain in North Hammersmith during the 1951 General Election. This file contains election brochures on his candidature, host...
Date:1945-1951Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-04
Editorial files of Modern Quarterly, 1946-1953
Modern Quarterly was a British Marxist journal operating in the mid-20th century. It was the first British academic journal dedicated to Marxism, of which Montagu was on the editorial board....
Date:1946-1953Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-05-03
