1956

Paul Flewers is the author of The New Civilisation? Understanding Stalins Soviet Union 1929-1941 and an editor of Revolutionary History. John McIlroy is a Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School.

• 1. Foreword; 2. John McIlroy, Introduction; 3. Documents; Harry Pollitt, The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and the Role of Stalin; The Lessons of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU; Rajani Palme Dutt, The Great Debate; John Saville, Problems of the Communist Party; Rajani Palme Dutt, New Times, New Measures; EP Thompson, Winter Wheat in Omsk; George Matthews, A Caricature of Our Party; Khrushchev's Report; Derek Kartun, Ideas and Methods of Work; 4. The Reasoner, no 1; Editorial Comments; Why We Are Publishing; Taking Stock; Ken Alexander, Democratic Centralism; EP Thompson, Reply To George Matthews; Correspondence; AL, What Is Socialism?; John McLeish, An Open Letter From a 'Premature Anti-Stalinist'; K Hughes, Where Do We Stand Now?; R Cocker, Needed: A Party of a New Type; Documents; Letter from Steve Nelson, Daily Worker (New York); Statement by the Editorial Board, Jewish Life; Andrzej Braun, A Polish Self-Examination, Nova Kultura; 5. The Reasoner, no 2; Editorial; The Case For Socialism; Ronald L Meek, What Should We Do About The Reasoner?; Doris Lessing, A Letter To the Editors; Hyman Levy, The Place of Unorthodoxy in Marxism; Bertolt Brecht, To Posterity; John Saville, World Socialism Restated: A Comment; Readers' Round-Up; Correspondence; J Lyons, Democratic Centralism; P Jordan, Discussion and Democracy; Lawrence Daly, 'The Long Road Back'; Rodney Hilton, Labour-Communist Relations; Jim Johnson, Beware of Attempts to Stifle the Discussion; E Sleight, Marxism: Science and Dogma; P Shelley, A Lesson from History; Documents; Helena Eilstein, Problems of Free Discussion in Poland; An American Assessment of the Stalin Era; 6. Documents; Communist Party Executive Committee Statement on The Reasoner; The Reasoner: Statement by the Communist Party Executive Committee; Statement by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party on The Reasoner; 7. The Reasoner, no 3; Editorial; EP Thompson, Through the Smoke of Budapest; Sheila Lynd, Leslie Sewell, Ursula Cox, Three Letters on The Reasoner; Derek Kartun, Seeing the Trees for the Wood; Democratic Centralism; GDH Cole, Reflections; An American View, Democracy and Dissent; PH, On Democratic Centralism; 'De-Stalinisation'; Ronald L Meek, Notes From a Polish Diary; K Simonov, On Fadeyev; Ursula Wassermann, Hungary and Socialist Democracy; John Saville, An Open Letter to R Page Arnot; Bob Davies, Some Notes on the 1937-38 Purges; Correspondence, J Young, E Martin, Stella Jull, MD, Doris Lessing, and Others; EP Thompson and John Saville, Statement by the Editors; 8. Ronald Meek, The Marxist-Leninist's Song; 9. John McIlroy, John Saville and Stalinism: An Incomplete Emancipation?; 10. Paul Flewers, EP Thompson and the Soviet Experience; 11. Chronology; 12. Index.

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