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Introduction: the Rise and Decline of British Bolshevism Notes Introduction: the Rise and Decline of British Bolshevism 1. C. Bambery ‘Introduction’, in B. Pearce and M. Woodhouse, A History of Communism In Britain (London: Bookmarks, 1995 edn), p. iv. 2. D. Gluckstein The Tragedy of Bukharin (London: Pluto Press, 1994), pp. 171–81. 3. R. Darlington The Political Trajectory of J. T. Murphy (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998), p. 136. 4. K. McDermott, ‘The history of the Comintern in the light of new docu- ments’, International Communism and the Communist International 1919–1943 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), p. 33. 5. E. Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century 1914–1991 (London: Michael Joseph, 1994), p. 71. 6. S. Fielding, ‘British Communism: Interesting but irrelevant?’, Labour History Review 60/2 (1995), pp. 120–3; also J. Saville, ‘The “Crisis” in Labour History: a Further Comment’, Labour History Review 61/3 (1996), pp. 322–8. A. 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Richardson, War and the International: a History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain 1937–1949 (Ilford: Socialist Platform, 1986), p. 26. Such attacks were probably most fre- quent between 1941 and 1945, interview with Frank Henderson, 10 July 1996; interview with Duncan Hallas, 16 September 1996. 18. Thompson, The Good Old Cause; Beckett, Enemy Within; K. Laybourn and D. Murphy, Under the Red Flag: a History of Commission in Britain (London: Sutton, 1999). 19. Thompson, The Good Old Cause. 20. Cited in Hinton and Hyman, Trade Unions and Revolution, p. 7. 21. J. T. Murphy, Preparing for Power: a Critical Study of the British Working-Class Movement (London: Pluto Press, 1972 edn), p. 219. 22. Thompson, The Good Old Cause, p. 8; Pearce and Woodhouse, A History of Communism in Britain. 23. Hinton and Hyman, Trade Unions and Revolution, p. 73. 24. N. Branson, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941–1951 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1997), p. 198. 25. A. 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Kendall, The Revolutionary Movement in Britain 1900–1921: the Origins of British Communism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 299; J. Hinton and R. Hyman, Trade Unions and Revolution: the Industrial Politics of the Early British Communist Party (London: Pluto, 1975), p. 73. 2. M. Crick, The History of the Social-Democratic Federation (Keele: Keele University Press, 1994), p. 7. 3. K. Laybourn, The Rise of Socialism in Britain (Sutton: Stroud, 1997), p. 9. 4. The foundation of the SLP is described in R. Challinor, The Origins of British Bolshevism (London: Croom Helm, 1977), p. 9, 23. For the ideology of the pre- 1914 left, see L. Barrow and I. Bullock, Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 5. Rothstein’s activities are discussed in John Saville’s ‘Introduction’ to T. 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