British Communist Party

Secondary sources

• Geoff Andrews Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism, 1964–1991. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2004.
• Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman & Kevin Morgan, Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party. Palgrave, 1995.
• John Attfield & Stephen Williams, 1939: The Communist Party and the War. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984.
• Francis Beckett, Enemy Within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party. London: John Murray, 1995.
• Thomas Bell, The British Communist Party: a Short History. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1937.
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• Nina Fishman, Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Volume 1 1894–1944 & Volume 2 1944–1968. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2010.
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• James Hinton, The First Shop Stewards' Movement. Allen & Unwin, 1973.
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• John McIlroy, Kevin Morgan & Alan Campbell (eds), Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2001.
• Kevin Morgan, Against Fascism and War: Ruptures and Continuities in British Communist Politics 1935–41. Manchester University Press, 1989.
• Kevin Morgan, Bolshevism and the British Left, Part 1: Labour Legends and Russian Gold. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2006.
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• Denis Pritt, The Labour Government 1945–1951 (1963); detailed coverage by an MP with a pro-Communist perspective online
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• Andrew Thorpe, "The Communist International and the British Communist Party", in Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds), International Communism and the Communist International, 1919–43. Manchester University Press, 1998.
• Andrew Thorpe, The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920–1943. Manchester University Press, 2000.
• Nigel West, Mask: MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Routledge, 2012.
• Neal Wood, Communism and British Intellectuals. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
• Matthew Worley, Class Against Class: The Communist Party in Britain Between the Wars. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002.