"People of a special mould"?

International conference on comparative communist biography and prosopography Manchester, 6th - 8th April 2001

Liite 1. Konferenssin osanottajat:

Title of Paper Forename Surname Institution
Forgotten Comrades - James Desmond Buckle and the African Marxists Hakim Adi University of Middlesex
A Communist of a Special Mould: Umberto Terracini's opposition to the Cominform Turn in 1947 Aldo Agosti University of Turin
The Communist Party and British Society: some preliminary thoughts 1964-1979 Geoff Andrews Open University
Revolution and Personal Crisis: Communist Politics and Personal Narrative in the Life of William Z. Foster Jim Barret University of Illinois
Nationalism and Communist Leaders: Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Earl Browder of the American Party as a case study Wlodzimierz


James G.

 Batog


Ryan		 Pedagogical University, Kielce, Poland

Texas A& M University
The Dimitrov Diary as a major source for biographical and prosopographical research Bernhard Bayerlein  
 The Mot Dag Association Geir Bentzen University of Oslo
"Fitting things into Place" and reaching conclusions: reflections on some witness evidence of experiences in the CPGB from the 1930s to c.1956. Terry Brotherstone University of Aberdeen
Communist leadership in British trade unions: the case of the South Wales miners 1945-85 Alan

John		 Campbell

McIllroy		 University of Liverpool

University of Manchester
'Sentimental Socialism' versus 'Revolutionary Marxism'? A Biographical Analysis of Communism and the Independent Labour Party Gideon Cohen University of Manchester
A co-operative Woman all my life: the dilemmas of British Communist Guildswomen in the 1950s Nicole Cowee Birkbeck College, London
The Young Men are Moving Together: the case of Randall Swingler Andy Croft Middlesbrough
"The Party has Failed": Communist responses to Organisational Decline - the CPGB in the 1980s Richard Cross University of Manchester
"Portuguese of a Special Mould?" The Portuguese Communist Party's Early Communist International Years Carlos Cunha Dowling College, New York
Will the real Stanley Bunting please stand up? Constructing the identity of South African Communist S.P. Bunting Allison Drew University of York
The Communist Movement in Norway, 1917-1970 Asmund Egge University of Oslo
Karl Radek (1885-1939): A Political Biography Jean-Francois Favet University of Geneva
Africans at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers: people and frameworks Irina Filatova University of Durban-Westville, South Africa
Winning the peace: Communists' role in reconstructing the mining trade unions and re-starting the coal industry 1945-1951. The cases of Willie Agatz, Eduard Gierek and Arthur Horner Nina Nina

Holger

Anita		 Fishman

Heith

Prazmowska		 University of Westminster

Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebietes

London School of Economics
The CPGB and National Branches. Cypriot, Indian and West Indian branches 1945-70: an experiment in self-organisation? Andrew Flinn University of Manchester
Workers, Socialism and a Revolutionary: Struggle for a new South Africa Jonathan Grossman University of Cape Town
The Socialist Heritage of British Jewish Communists Jason Heppell University of Sheffield
Communist Ideology and "post-communism": French communists and changing identities 1976-2000 Stephen Hopkins University of Leicester
Tom Mann as Icon: Dona Torr and British Communist "Hagiography" Antony Howe University of Sydney
Working on a new biographical dictionary of the Comintern: a survey Peter Huber University of Hannover
From Suffragism to Communism: re-considering women foundation members of the CPGB Karen Hunt Manchester Metropolitan University
From Fraternal Solidarity to Comintern Hierarchy: the changing nature of relationships between South African and British Communists Sheridan Johns Duke University
A good comrade, a good cadre: Autobiographies and evaluation reports as a part of cadre policy in the Finnish Communist Party during the 1940s/50s Pirjo Kaihovaara People's Archives, Finland
The 'Affaire Besouchet' or the Brazilian side of the 'Moscow's trials all over the world' Dainis Karepovs University of Sao Paolo
Communists are not born, they are made: the political education system in the French Communist Party Marja Kivisaari University of Portsmouth
Between Cadre Party and Social Milieux. The West German Communists, 1945-1960 Till Kossler Ruhr-University Bochum
Hertta Kuusinen - the leading communist women in Finland in the post-war era Pirkko Kotila University of Helsinki
The Finnish sector at the International Lenin School Joni Krekola University of Helsinki
Claim and Reality of the Political Schooling work of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Republic Carsten Krinn University of Tuebingen
In all but Name: entryists, left-wing gadflies and fellow travellers within the British Labour Party Darren Lilleker University of Sheffield
Irish/British Schools at International Lenin School in Moscow 1926-1937 Barry

John

 McLoughlin

Halstead

 Dokumentations Archiv des Osterreichischen Widerstandes

University of Sheffield
From Class Warrior to People's Advocate: Tim Buck and the Re-making of Canadian Communism, 1929-1939 John Manley University of Central Lancashire
A family affair? The "party family" and the geneaologies of British Communists Kevin Morgan University of Manchester
Herbert Aptheker's Unity of Theory and Practice inthe Communist Party USA: On the last night, and during the first two decades Gary Murrell Washington, USA
Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of   "Blood River" and King Dingane in the late 1920s-30s Sifiso Ndlovu Africa Institute of South Africa
Generating communist discourse Jon Olafsson University of Iceland
A Proposopographical Research in progress based on French Institutional Communist Autobiographies (Unfortunately, Bernard Pudal and Claude Pennetier have had to withdraw from the conference) Bernand

Claude		 Pudal

Pennetier

 
 Oppressed worker versus communist hero - characters inthe Finnish communist magazines in the 1920s Tauno

Saarela

 University of Helsinki
A Hungarian in the Comintern: Jozsef Pogany/John Pepper Thomas Sakmyster University of Cincinnati
Walking on thin ice: the tension between leadership and the rank-and-file within the Brazilian Communist Party Marco Santana University of Rio de Janiero
A Dutch mix of Scouts and Pioneers: the Uilenspiegelclub children 1953-1964 Margreet Schrevel International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
SACP Leaders Vladimir Shubin Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
A Soldier of the World Revolution: fragments of Stanislav Pestkovsky's life Daniela Spenser Centro de Investigaciones y Esturios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico
The Social Basis of New Zealand Communism, 1921-1948 Kerry Taylor Massey University, N.Z.
Communist Party Influence in the Scottish Labour Movement during the 1960s Willie Thompson Glasgow Caledonian University
Communist M.P.: The Life of Willie Gallacher Andrew Thorpe University of Exeter
Alexander Lozovsky - Rise and Fall of an International Leader` Reiner Tosstorff Institute of Eastern European History, University of Mainz
Eine deutsche Kommunistin: Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) Tania Unludag Ruhr-University Bochum
French Communist Party secretaries: collective biography and individual biography Jean

Serge		 Vigreux

Wolikow		 University of Bourgogne

University of Bourgogne
Social Composition of Party's membership from 1909 until 1991 in the Netherlands Gerrit Voerman University of Groningen
Biographical and Prosopographical Aspects of Communist Life in the Austrian Provinces Wolfgang Weber Austria
The old songs just don't sound the same any more: the generation that had to change Stephen Woodhams University of Luton