Russia and the British Left

David Burke is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has also taught at the universities of Cambridge, Salford and Leeds. He holds a PhD from University of Greenwich.

By tracing the political careers of the émigré Theodore Rothstein and his British-born son Andrew, David Burke deftly guides the reader through many of the most important crises and controversies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In doing so, Russia and the British Left poses crucial questions about the dynamic relationship between the British and Russian lefts in an era of uncertainty, war, and revolution.

• IntroductionThe Tsarist Russian Political EmigrationEast End Jewish Marxist‘Imperialism and the Struggle of the Working Class’WarRevolutionThe ‘Dual Policy’The CPGB and ‘Hands Off Russia’Prising Open the Lion’s JawsThe Anglo-Russian Committee and the Zinoviev LetterThe General Strike and the Arcos RaidEpilogueBibliography