Donny Gluckstein (born 1954) is a British historian at Edinburgh College. He went to the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

in 1974 and graduated in history. The son of

Tony Cliff Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, he, יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen nam ...

and

Chanie Rosenberg Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – June 2021) was a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist. She was the sister of Michael Kidron, the partner of Tony Cliff, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. Life ...

, he is the author of numerous books and articles. In 2013 his book ''A People's History of the Second World War'' was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award.

Selected works

*''The Western Soviets: Workers' Councils versus Parliament, 1915-20'' (London: Bookmarks: 1985).
''Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926''
(co-authored with

) (London: Bookmarks, 1986).
''The Labour Party: A Marxist history''
(coauthored with

) (London: Bookmarks: 1988/1996). *''The Tragedy of Bukharin'' (London: Pluto, 1994). *''The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class'' (London: Bookmarks, 1999, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2012). *''The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy'' (London: Bookmarks: 2006, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2011). *''A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance versus Empire'' (London: Pluto, 2012). *''Fighting on all fronts: Popular Resistance in the Second World War'' (editor) (London: Bookmarks: 2015). *''Hegel and Revolution'' (co-authored with Terry Sullivan) (London: Bookmarks, 2020).

References

External links

The Donny Gluckstein Internet Archive
Articles at Marxists.org
Articles
for

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.
Profile at Haymarket BooksInterview with Donny Gluckstein
from 2012 at New Left Project. Living people British historians British Marxists British Jews 1954 births {{UK-historian-stub