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About The Book:
Documents of the Communist Movement in India
Vol. 1-26 (including Part I and Part II of Vol. 10)
Jyoti Basu (Editor-in-Chief), Sailen Dasgupta, Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Anil Biswas and Santi Sekhar Basu (editors)
Each volume approx. 700-1000 pages.
This set of 27 volumes covers the period 1917 to 1998, and brings together the documents of the Communist Movement in a comprehensive manner. The documents are published here in their exact original form, with no editing whatsoever. An indispensable resource for historians, scholars, journalists and activists. Each volume contains an introductory note by Jyoti Basu and a Foreword by Harkishan Singh Surjeet.
Volume 1 (1917-1928), 1120 pages
Contains 30 documents in the main text and 23 document in the Annexures on various incidents which map the early years of the communist movement in India, including the first contacts between the Indian revolutionaries and leaders of the October Revolution. The volume includes what M.N. Roy reminisced about the establishment of the Communist Party of India at Tashkent in 1920. It also includes the Memoranda submitted by Roy to the Congress session of Ahmedabad (1921), Gaya (1922), and Guwahati (1926). The Resolution on Total Independence submitted by Maulana Hasrat Mohani at Ahmedabad, that was dropped in the face of opposition from Mahatma Gandhi, finds place in the volume. Also included are the Colonial Thesis by Lenin, Resolution of the Communist International on the Countries of the East; documents on the Peshwar Conspiracy Case, Kanpur Conspiracy Case, Communist Conference at Kanpur (1925) and formation of the All India Workers and Peasants Party at Calcutta (1925). The volume includes a lengthy foreword by E.M.S. Namboodiripad.
Volume 2 (1929), 1444 pages
This volume is dedicated to the Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929). The case was launched by the British Government against nineteen accused, including Muzaffar Ahmad, B.F. Bradley, Gangadhar Adhikari, P.C. Joshi, S.A. Dange, and others. The pamphlet published by the committee as well as the pieces that appeared on this case in the Labour Monthly find place in this volume.
Volume 3 (1929?1938), 928 pages
The main body of the volume consists of 37 documents and the annexures 19. The documents include the celebrated Three Parties? Letter. In 1932, the communist parties of Great Britain, China and Germany jointly authored the letter. This led, in 1933, to the formation of the provisional Central Committee of the CPI.
Volume 4 (1939?1943), 1937 pages
This volume contains 60 documents plus 15 in the annexures. The volume reproduces the document on the First Congress of the CPI in 1943 at Mumbai; joint statement of P.C. Joshi and Jayprakash Narayan; Jail Document; CPI Polit Bureau Resolution of People?s War. The 1st Congress of the CPI in 1943 formed the Central Committee. The volume contains documents on the historic 1943 Kayur peasant struggle in Kerala and three documents after the winding up of the International in 1943, along with the statements of J.V. Stalin and P.C Joshi.
Volume 5 (1944?1948), 1144 pages
This volume includes statements and analysis of the CPI on such momentous events as the end of World War and intensification of India?s independence struggle, the INA trial and protest movement against it all over the country, RIN mutiny, 1946 elections, communal riots and the plot for Partition, the Mountbatten Plan and India?s independence and partition, culminating in monstrous communal riots.
Volume 6 (1949?1951), 824 pages
The volume comprises 17 documents. The CPI took a dangerous left sectarian turn after 1948, and the party suffered as a result. Eventually, Rajeswar Rao replaced B.T. Ranadive as General Secretary; the PB and the CC were reconstituted. A party circular dated 1/6/1950 conveyed all this information to the membership. Three documents were presented to the CC for inner-party discussion.
Volume 7 (1952), 890 pages
This volume includes 38 documents, including 7 in annexures. This volume contains an article by Ajay Ghosh exposing Nehru?s socialism, resolution by the CC of CPSU on the role of Stalin dated 30/6/1956; that by CC, CPI dated July, 1956, as well as the same by the PB CPC dated 5/4/1956 and 29/ 12/1956. The alternative resolution placed at the Palghat Party Congress by P.C Joshi, Rajeshwar Rao, Bhabani Sen etc. also finds place in this volume.
Volume 8 (1957?1961), 1016 pages
The main text of the volume consists of 44 documents and the annexures 5. Amongst the most notable successes of the party in this period was during the 1957 elections, when the first-ever elected Communist government was installed in Kerala, and was eventually dismissed by Nehru?s government on 3rd August 1959. The period covered by this volume seethes with internal differences in the CPI.
Volume 9 (1962?1963), 932 pages
The volume has 38 documents inclusive of 14 in the annexures. It covers a period in the history of the Indian Communist movement marked by intense inner-party struggles against right revisionism culminating in the establishment of the CPI (M) in 1964. The speeches by Jyoti Basu in the West Bengal Assembly (16/11/1962) and A.K. Gopalan in Lok Sabha (23?24January 1963) are published here.
Volume 10-A (1964 Part I), 355 pages
This volume consists of eight documents, including ?A Contribution to Ideological Debate? submitted jointly by M. Basavapunniah, N. Prasad Rao, A.K. Gopalan, H.K.S. Surjeet, P. Ramamurti, Jyoti Basu, Harekrishna Koner and Niranjan Sen against revisionism. Also included is a resolution by 146 delegates at Tenali, representing over one hundred thousand party members, deciding that the Party?s 7th Congress would be held at Calcutta in October?November 1964, sharply demarcating from right revisionism.
Volume 10-B (1964 part II), 620 pages
This volume contains all the documents adopted at the 7th Party Congress like the Party Programme, ?Fight Against Revisionism?, ?Tasks in the Present Situation?, Party?s Statement of Policy, Party Constitution, etc.
Volume 11(1965?1967), 1087 pages
This volume contains 87 documents, including the 1967 Election Manifesto, Ideological Debate (Draft), Differences with the CPC, ?Against Left Deviations Left Opportunism?, Tasks on the Kisan Front, TU Front, Party Organization, etc.
Volume 12 (1968), 1073 pages
This volume reproduces 52 documents, including Resolution on Ideological Debate adopted at the Burdwan Plenum, ?Letter to Andhra Comrades?, ?Against Left Sectarianism?, Political Resolution and Political Organizational Report adopted at 8th Party Congress held at Cochin.
Volume 13 (1969), 696 pages
This volume consists of 67 documents including on the mid-term assembly poll in West Bengal resulting in victory again of the United Front with CPI(M) emerging as the largest party, split of Congress Party, evaluation of the document of the 9th Congress of the CPC where Lin Biao was proclaimed successor to Mao, appraisal of the document adopted at meeting of Communist Parties on 17/06/1969 in Moscow, etc.
Volume 14 (1970), 862 pages
With 90 documents, the volume spreads over 862 pages. The documents cover, inter alia, formation of government in Kerala by the CPI with the Congress (I), Syndicate Congress, Muslim League; in CPI bringing down the United Front government in West Bengal with the help of the Bangla Congress; division in AITUC by Dange, leading to the emergence of the CITU; the politics of terror, mayhem and murder by the Naxalites in West Bengal.
Volume 15 (1971?1972), 1004 pages
This volume contains 125 documents devoted to, among other things, the division of Pakistan and establishment of Bangladesh; CPI (M) getting 111 seats in West Bengal assembly polls in 1971, becoming the largest party, but the CPI, Congress, Bangla Congress, etc., combining to plot to keep it out of power leading to the fall of their government; installation of the riggers janata in West Bengal after wholesale rigging of the West Bengal polls in 1972 amidst semi-fascist terror; CPI (M) Party Congress at Madurai (June 27?July 2, 1972); solidarity with Vietnam Liberation struggle.
Volume 16 (1973?1974), 630 pages
This volume contains 123 documents covering the deaths of comrades Muzaffar Ahmed, Harekrishna Konar, and Rajani Palm Dutt; establishment of Kisan Sabha; imperialism in south Vietnam and the unification of Vietnam; 14-day nationwide railway strike; united movement by the CPI (M) and the Socialist Party; joint statement for united struggle in Bihar signed by P. Sundarayya, Promode Dasgupta, Jayaprakash Narayan and Madhu Dandavate.
Volume 17 (1975?1977), 670 Pages
The 128 documents in this volume are devoted to retreat of the Socialist Party from united movement with the CPI (M); invalidation of the election of Indira Gandhi as MP by Allahabad High Court; foisting of Emergency rule in India by her with the support to the CPI as well as the Soviet Union; her defeat by the Janata Party and installation of Morarji Dasai as Prime Minister; victory of the Left Front in the June 1977 Assembly poll in West Bengal and installation of the Left Front Government in the state.
Volume 18 (1978?1979), 732 pages
The period covered by this volume is a most significant period in the political history of post-independence India. The formation of the Janata Party which crystallized in the fight against authoritarianism under the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, was actually a combination of different political thoughts and aspirations and this was soon manifested in the functioning of Janata Party?s government in New Delhi under Morarji Desai. The stand taken by CPI (M) on the ?July Crisis? is included in this volume.
Volume 19 (1980?1981), 608 pages
This volume includes important documents which throw light on several political development in India of far-reaching consequences. The first document of this volume is the election manifesto of CPI (M) for 1980 Lok Sabha elections, highlighting the battle for democracy against authoritarian and dictatorial rule.
Volume 20 (1982?1983), 764 pages
The 11th Congress of the CPI (M) was held at Vijayawada on January 26?31,1982, and this was the biggest political event of this period relating to communist movement in India. When Indira Gandhi came back to power in 1980 she continued the same authoritarian and dictatorial policies, and this was correctly analyzed in the Political Resolution adopted by the 11th Congress.
Volume 21 (1984?1986), 878 pages
This was an important period in political history of post-independent India. Virulent separatist movements engulfed almost the whole of Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir and very badly affected various regions of Assam and the states of the north-east.
Volume 22 (1987?1988), 896 pages
This volume includes 147 documents. It also includes 8 documents in its appendix which reveal the efforts made by the CPI (M) to build left unity and united movement in defence of democracy and secularism and also defeat the anti-people policies of the Congress (I) government led by Rajiv Gandhi and to thwart the nefarious game of disruptive and divisive and communal forces.
Volume 23 (1989?1991), 770 pages
This was a period when very rapid political developments of far-reaching consequence took place in India as well as in the socialist countries. It covers the document on the socialist society in erstwhile Soviet Union, which developed after the October Revolution of 1917, and came to its unexpected and abrupt end, paving the way for the restoration of capitalism.
Volume 24 (1992?1993), 840 pages
This volume contains 200 documents. The biggest event of the Communist Movement of this period in India was the Fourteenth Congress of the CPI (M) held in Madras on January 3-9, 1992. E.M.S. Namboodiripad relinquished his post of General Secretary of the CPI (M) in this Congress and Harkishan Singh Surjeet was elected as General Secretary of Party.
Volume 25 (1994?1996), 992 pages
This volume contains 243 documents, which cover the New Economic Policy pursued by the Congress (I) government headed by P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Volume 26 (1997?1998), 1120 pages
This is the last volume of the series containing 186 documents in the main text and 14 in the annexures. The developments covered in this period are the fall of two United Front governments, led by H.D. Deve Gowda and I.K. Gujral respectively, because of the withdrawal of support by the Congress (I), leading, in 1998, to General Elections in which the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party, and was able to form a government of 18 parties. |
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