The political trajectory of J.T. Murphy / [electronic resource]
Darlington, Ralph,1954-author.
J.T. Murphy was one of the most important worker-intellectual figures of early twentieth-century British labour history. Using completely new and previously unpublished material (from the British Communist Partys archives and the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Recent History in Moscow), this book not only tells the fascinating story of Murphys political trajectory, but also provides a critical re-examination of the historical and social significance of the early British revolutionary movement in which he played such a prominent role.
Title Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Chronology; Preface and Acknowledgements; Photographs; 1: The Early Years in Sheffield, 1888-1917; 2: The Shop Stewards' Movement, 1917-1919; 3: Towards Bolshevism, 1919-1920; 4: The Communist Party and the Labour Movement, 1920-1926; 5: The Comintern and Stalinism, 1926-1928; 7: Towards Left Reformism, 1932-1936; 8: Popular Frontism and Re-appraisal, 1936-1965; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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J.T. Murphy was one of the most important worker-intellectual figures of early twentieth-century British labour history. Using completely new and previously unpublished material (from the British Communist Partys archives and the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Recent History in Moscow), this book not only tells the fascinating story of Murphys political trajectory, but also provides a critical re-examination of the historical and social significance of the early British revolutionary movement in which he played such a prominent role.
Murphy, J. T. (John Thomas), 1888-1966.
Labor leaders
Communists