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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)
81-7626-000-2, National Book Agency, 1997-99

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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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