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Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43
Emmet O´connor
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Description for Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp b&w plates. BIC Classification: JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558194
SKU
V9781904558194
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99-31
About Emmet O´connor
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.
Reviews for Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43
"O'Connor's book is salutary for republicans to gain an historical perspective on one of the many Marxist groups that have attempted by stealth to influence republican policy." An Phoblacht Nov 2004 "tells how, 80 years ago, the fledgling Soviet Union tried to co-opt the IRA into its goals of world revolution. O'Connor's trawl through the Moscow archives of ... Read more