James Klugmann

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Norman John Klugmann, generally known as James Klugmann,[1] (1912-1977) was a leading British Communist writer who became the official historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain

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[edit] Education

Gresham's
Gresham's
Cambridge
Cambridge

Educated at Gresham's School and Trinity College, Cambridge (at both of which he was a friend and contemporary of the spy Donald Maclean), Klugmann joined the Communist Party in 1933 while at Cambridge.

[edit] Career

During World War II, he spent two and a half years working on the staff of the Yugoslav Section of the British Special Operations Executive as an intelligence and coordination officer, and he was later accused of having used his position to manipulate British operations and policy in the interests of the communists. He was also suspected of having been, like his friends Guy Burgess, Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, a Soviet spy.

One of the most active and overt British communists of his generation, Klugmann became an influential left-wing journalist after the war and wrote the first two volumes of the official History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which was completed by Noreen Branson.

[edit] Books by James Klugmann

  • The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: Formative and Early Years 1919-1924 (Vol. 1) ISBN 0-85315-372-8
  • The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike 1925-26 (Vol. 2) ISBN 0-85315-374-4
  • Wall Street's Drive to War (Communist Party, 1950)
  • From Trotsky to Tito (Lawrence & Wishart, 1951) ASIN B0006DBG3G
  • The Peaceful Co-existence of Capitalism and Socialism (People's Publishing House 1952) ASIN B0007K14QM
  • Dialogue of Christianity and Marxism (Lawrence & Wishart, 1967) ASIN B000G9OYD4
  • What Kind of Revolution?: A Christian-Communist Dialogue (Panther, 1968) ISBN 0-586-02580-4
  • The Future of Man (Communist Party of Great Britain, 1971) ISBN 0-900302-20-8
  • Marxism Today: Theoretical and Discussion Journal of the Communist Party (Communist Party of Great Britain, 1975) ASIN B0006DLHUI

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
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