Research Catalog

Title

Reds and the green : Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 / Emmet O'Connor.

Author

O'Connor, Emmet.

Publication

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 260 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Based on former Soviet archives, this work shows why Irish Marxists and republicans turned repeatedly to Russia for support and inspiration, what Moscow wanted from Ireland, and how the Comintern was able to direct an Irish political party.

Subject

• Communist Party of Ireland > History
• Communist International
• Sinn Fein > History
• Communist Party of Ireland
• Sinn Fein
• Kommunistische Internationale
• Komintern
• 1922-1949
• Communism > Ireland > History
• Communism
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• Communisme
• Politieke partijen
• Außenpolitik
• Ireland > Politics and government > 1922-1949
• Ireland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Ireland
• Ireland
• Soviet Union
• Ierland
• Sovjet-Unie
• Irland
• Russland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.

Contents

Hail Russia! Labour and Bolshevism. -- The race for Moscow, 1919-21. -- Civil War Communism, 1921-2. -- A fistful of Marxists: the demise of the CPI, 1922-4. -- An infernal triangle: Larkin, London, and Moscow, 1924-6. -- The search for a counterbalance, 1926-9. -- Bolshevising Irish Communism, 1929-31. -- Between the hammer and the anvil, 1931-3. -- Back to the fronts, 1933-6. -- Spain, decline and dissolution, 1936-43.

ISBN

• 1904558208
• 9781904558200
• 1904558194
• 9781904558194

LCCN

2005360064

OCLC

• ocm56816867
• 56816867
• SCSB-1353364

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library