Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...

Mary Agnes Hamilton later commented on the uncharacteristic lyricism of this book. Although it was hard to read, it was, she said, hungrily read. BW herself was delighted to meet a taxi driver who...

RT 's second book, an illustrated life of Josef Stalin , appeared in 1975 in the same series.

The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...

One outspoken admirer of CS was Angela Carter , who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'. She strongly recommended Stead's work for re-issuing in the Virago Modern...

Back in London in 1953 after Stalin 's death, CS began to understand what a stigma it was at this date to be a Communist. She nevertheless remained faithful to her partner's hard-line politics even...

For Meanjin she wrote about the current falling-out in Paris between Camus (who had taken an anti-Stalinist line in L'Homme révolté) and Sartre . For Stead neither writer was a good enough Communist...

When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan...

This novel begins arrestingly as the twentieth century opens, in a village in old Russia. Baby Anna Larionov is born the grand-daughter of a count who, troubled by political unrest and calls for reform...

A huge cast of peripheral characters enables the book to move occasionally outside Russia: Berlin before the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 is vividly described. Later, cold-war America becomes a shadowy presence when the most...

He set the action in England to show that the horrors of Stalin ist Russia could occur in any society. The main character, inexplicably dissident Winston Smith, is employed by the Ministry of Truth to...

Together with a group of Communist sympathisers who nonetheless abhorred the rule of Joseph Stalin (who included her current lover, Philip Rahv ), MMC issued a new first, resurrected issue of the defunct left-wing literary...

Of Martha's twin quests, that for emotional fulfilment brings her more pain and loss than pleasure, and that for a viable political creed is no more fruitful. She becomes a Communist, and is later dismayed...