Emmet O'Connor

Reds and the Green

Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43

Buch

In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two agents of the Communist International held a secret meeting in Dublin with two IRA leaders. The four signed an agreement providing for the transformation of Sinn Fein into a socialist party. In return, Moscow was to assist with the supply of weapons to the IRA. The incident illustrates what made the Comintern a beacon of hope to beleaguered revolutionaries or an object of sometimes hysterical suspicion. From February 1918, when over 10,000 thronged central Dublin to acclaim the Bolshevik revolution, to July 1941, when th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-904558-19-4
EAN: 9781904558194
Produktnummer: 1459238
Verlag: University College Dublin Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.5 cm x D3.0 cm 636 g
Abbildungen: 8pp b&w plates
Gewicht: 636
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Emmet O'Connor lectures in history and politics in the University of Ulster, Magee College. He has written widely on Irish labour history, and recently completed the biography James Larkin.