Papers relating to the international communist movement, 1947-1970
Papers relating to the international communist movement, 1947-1970
Collection: Communism in Crisis in Britain and Abroad, 1931-1979 Volumes Papers relating to the international communist movement, 1947-1970
This volume contains material relating to the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Vietnam, and their involvement with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Additionally, the volume contains John Gollan’s contact with the CPSU and notes on the Moscow ‘Show Trials’ from 1936-1938.
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Retrospective on the Moscow ‘Show Trials’, 1970-1979
This document contains John Gollan’s notes on the Moscow Trials of 1936-1938, broadly outlining his perspective that the three open trials of the Old Bolsheviks were fake. The document also...
Date:1970-1979Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-08
Material on the Prague Spring, 1968
This document contains various newspaper cuttings from Soviet News and translations from the Soviet press and Pragopress. They broadly detail the situation in Czechoslovakia and the military intervention from the...
Date:1968-1968Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-07
The Communist Party of the Netherlands in the Sino-Soviet Split, 1967
The document contains a letter from F. Baruch to John Gollan regarding information about the Communist Party of the Netherlands. The document also includes a translation of a letter regarding...
Date:1967-1967Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-06
Trial of Soviet writers, 1966
This document includes notes from John Gollan’s critical statement on the severity of the sentence against the two Soviet writers, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, in February 1966. Additionally, the...
Date:1966-1966Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-05
Material on Vietnam, 1960-1979
This document contains a variety of different materials regarding the events in Vietnam throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including leaflets, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, and handwritten notes by John Gollan. The...
Date:1960-1979Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-04
The International Communist Conference addressing Spain, 1962
The document contains an overview of the meeting of the representatives of the Communist Parties of Spain, the USSR, Great Britain, France, and Italy. The report documents the situation in...
Date:1962-1962Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-03
20th Congress of the Danish Communist Party, 1958
This document includes handwritten notes from John Gollan regarding his speech to the 20th Congress of the Danish Communist Party. The document additionally includes a typescript report on the events...
Date:1958-1958Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-02
7th Congress of the Yugoslavian League of Communists, 1958
This document includes a variety of materials, including reports and correspondence between the CPGB and the ‘League of Communists of Yugoslavia’ (LCY). The correspondence documents the reasons why the CPGB...
Date:1958-1958Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-goll-03-01
