Communist Party

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politics Pearl S. Buck
Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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As an anti-ideologue, she had the experience in the 1950s of being stigmatized as...
politics Evelyn Sharp
She was several times invited to stand for election to parliament, but replied that she did not think herself well suited to the necessary compromises of parliamentary politics.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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She later wrote that she would...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES was thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the Russian Revolution, and was one of the founders of the British 1917 Club . She noted that the concept of equal sharing at the root...
politics Graham Greene
GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...
politics Tillie Olsen
Before she left school Tillie parted company with her father over politics. He was now a leading Omaha Socialist; the Communists were accusing the Socialists of pandering to capitalism; Tillie sided with the Communists ...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
The East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), a radical, militant, working-class feminist organisation begun by SP and her supporters, held its first meeting at Bromley Public Hall, Bow Street, in East London.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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politics Charlotte Despard
CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...
politics Doris Lessing
DL became a member of the British Communist Party . The same year she visited the USSR as a delegate of the Authors' World Peace Appeal .
Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015.
Fishburn, Katherine. Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press, 1987, .
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politics Doris Lessing
DL was one of those who resigned their membership in the British Communist Party after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed, despite an appeal from Party officials to change her mind.
Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994.
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Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015.
Occupation Pearl S. Buck
PSB taught at a number of Chinese universities. Early in her first marriage (as well as entertaining for her husband and beginning to write seriously) she taught intermittently from 1925 at Nanjing University (which was...
Occupation Flannery O'Connor
FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA,
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
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but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis
Material Conditions of Writing Tillie Olsen
After marrying Abe Goldfarb at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party .
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Material Conditions of Writing Tillie Olsen
TO 's Communist and anti-fascist journalism became more mainstream once the USA had entered the Second World War.

Timeline

9 November 1989: Popular action began pulling down the Berlin...

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9 November 1989

Popular action began pulling down the Berlin Wall (erected in August 1961, which divided the city into eastern and western sectors).
Lagassé, Paul, editor. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.

17 November 1989: Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced...

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17 November 1989

Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced the resignation of the Czech Communist Party , which had held power in what was then Czechoslovakia since 1948.
“Velvet Revolution: 15th Anniversary: November 17, 1989 - 15 years after”. Radio Praha (Radio Prague: The International Service of Czech Radio).

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