{"product_id":"communist-politics-in-ireland-1916-1945","title":"Communist Politics in Ireland 1916–1945, vol. I: Pursuit of the Workers’ Republic in the Post-Connolly and Larkin Era, 1916–1928","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMike Milotte’s indispensible study of Irish communism in the early twentieth century leaves no stone unturned. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book offers a clear and meticulous reconstruction of Irish communism in the 1920s, reassessing the movement and its key figures in light of previously overlooked or misinterpreted material from the Comintern archives. Milotte follows a wide range of characters who shaped Irish communism in this period. During the revolutionary era, Roddy Connolly’s Communist Party robbed banks to fund its activities, and 20-year-old Connolly engaged in gun-running for the IRA while struggling to maintain control of his fractious party. In a later period of retreat, James Larkin refused to submit to the “imperialistic” British Communist Party or follow the dictates of Moscow’s Stalinist bureaucracy, resisting its policies and practices on instinct.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is an outstanding piece of scholarship and a superb addition to communist historiography. Milotte’s meticulous demonstration of the decisive power of the Comintern over its national sections challenges the interpretations of those historians who have revised this relationship. He fills in many historical gaps and paints the most detailed picture we have of a movement in Ireland that may have been tiny in size but punched above its weight politically.” Charlie McGuire, \u003cem\u003eSaothar: Journal of Irish Labour History \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Mike Milotte has written a masterful book on Irish communism. The first volume, a fully integrated and comprehensive history from 1916 to 1928, is a most judicious acquisition for the reader of Irish history. Virtually no organ has been left unmolested by his fastidious application and surgical analysis, an analysis which slices open the corpse of Irish communism, greedily consumes its sanguine contents, and seamlessly stitches the whole back together. We are presented with a delicious plate of sweetmeats, garnished with Green and predominately Red foliage.”\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eGerry Watts,\u003cem\u003e History Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1 The Heritage of James Connolly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Easter Rising and its Aftermath\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Setting the scene \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Easter Rising \u003cbr\u003e 3 Filling the vacuum \u003cbr\u003e 4 Fighting conscription \u003cbr\u003e 5 Bureaucratisation and the decline of official militancy \u003cbr\u003e 6 Sinn Féin’s triumph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Working Class in Ireland’s War of Independence\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘A ghostly army of sharpshooters’ versus mass action \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Revolutionary Socialist Party of Ireland \u003cbr\u003e 3 International rivalries \u003cbr\u003e 4 Class struggle and national struggle \u003cbr\u003e 5 The struggle for the land \u003cbr\u003e 6 Factory seizures and workers’ soviets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2 Ireland’s First Communist Party\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 \u003cstrong\u003eWhat Sort of Republic?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Ireland’s young Bolsheviks \u003cbr\u003e 2 An open or clandestine organisation? \u003cbr\u003e 3 Conceptualising the national question \u003cbr\u003e 4 The second Comintern congress \u003cbr\u003e 5 Loyalism and socialism: the problem in Belfast \u003cbr\u003e 6 Unheeded pleas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Second Comintern Congress to the Formation of the CPI\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Virulent Bourgeois Terror’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 Vying for Moscow’s ear \u003cbr\u003e 3 The tide turns \u003cbr\u003e 4 Roddy Connolly and the third Comintern congress: myth and reality \u003cbr\u003e 5 Connolly’s secret mission \u003cbr\u003e 6 Another failure \u003cbr\u003e 7 Bold initiatives or daily struggles? \u003cbr\u003e 8 Division, dissent, and the birth of the Irish Communist Party \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 \u003cstrong\u003eFrom Truce to Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Not yet in touch with the masses’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 Rubbish disposal: quality before quantity? \u003cbr\u003e 3 Purging old comrades \u003cbr\u003e 4 Cross-channel animosity \u003cbr\u003e 5 A parting of the ways \u003cbr\u003e 6 Communists and the Treaty \u003cbr\u003e 7 Class struggle continues as the unemployed take to the stage \u003cbr\u003e 8 ‘20,000 members in the next six months’ \u003cbr\u003e 9 The road to civil war \u003cbr\u003e 10 Revolutionary guns and ‘reformist’ soviets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Communist Party in the Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Prepared to fight as well as talk’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Borodin-Connolly programme \u003cbr\u003e 3 Connolly’s ‘big proposition’ \u003cbr\u003e 4 Liam Mellows and the communist programme \u003cbr\u003e 5 Repression intensifies \u003cbr\u003e 6 Connolly’s apologia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 \u003cstrong\u003eTurn to the Class\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 The fourth Comintern congress and its aftermath \u003cbr\u003e 2 Connolly’s solo run \u003cbr\u003e 3 The CPI’s first annual conference, January 1923 \u003cbr\u003e 4 McLoughlin’s bid for peace \u003cbr\u003e 5 The CPI’s second conference \u003cbr\u003e 6 Connolly resigns \u003cbr\u003e 7 Another round of struggle \u003cbr\u003e 8 The CPI’s third conference \u003cbr\u003e 9 The prisoner issue, again \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 \u003cstrong\u003eLarkin’s Return and the Demise of the CPI\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Wasps and aliens \u003cbr\u003e 2 A losing battle \u003cbr\u003e 3 What is to be done? 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