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History of the Communist Movement in India
Focusing on the early history of the Indian Communist movement, and on the periods of intensified struggle against revisionism, such as the 1960s. Note well: Of course, many of the documents in these collections have serious political problems and errors. [Further introduction to be added.]
Book Series: Historical and Polemical Documents of the Communist Movement of India
Published in Vijayawada, India, by the Tarimela Nagi Reddy Memorial Trust, which represents the views of some of the middle forces within the CPI(ML) and its descendants.
- “Volume 1 — 1943-1951”, published in June 2007, 606 pages. Searchable PDF format (14,277 KB)
- “Volume 2 — 1964-1972”, published in May 2008, 879 pages. [Not yet available on the Internet.]
Book Series: Documents of the Communist Movement in India
Focuses on the original Communist Party of India during its early period, and then on the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from its beginning to the present day. Published in Calcutta by the National Book Agency. Most volumes here are copied from the Internet Archive.
- “March of the Communist Movement in India: An Introduction to the Documents of the History of the Communist Movement in India”, by Harkishan Singh Surjeet, General Secretary of the CPI(Marxist), (Calcutta: National Book Agency, October 1998), 268 pages. Searchable PDF format (Large file: 47,323 KB)
- “Volume 1 — 1917-1928”, 1,134 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (24,398 KB)
- “Volume 2 — 1929 — The Meerut Conspiracy Case”, 1,465 pages.
Searchable PDF format (37,786 KB)
- “Volume 3 — 1929-1938”, 945 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (23,381 KB)
- “Volume 4 — 1939-1943”, 948 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (31,456 KB)
- “Volume 5 — 1944-1948”, 1,165 pages, n.d., enormous “Secured” file (which can’t be compressed). PDF format (Enormous file: 127,900 KB)
- “Volume 6 — 1949-1951”, 832 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (17,869 KB)
- “Volume 7 — 1952-1956”, 902 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (17,189 KB)
- “Volume 8 — 1957-1961”, 1,042 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (30,992 KB)
- “Volume 9 — 1962-1963”, 948 pages, n.d. Includes documents from Maoist China and from the revisionist Soviet Union. Searchable PDF format (18,100 KB)
- “Volume 10-A — 1964 [Part I]”, 372 pages, November 1997. Searchable PDF format (14,162 KB)
- “Volume 10-B — 1964 [Part II]]”. [Not available.]
- “Volume 11 — [1965-1967?]”. [Not available.]
- “Volume 12 — 1968”, 1,083 pages, n.d. Searchable PDF format (18,563 KB)
- “Volumes 13-16” [Not available.]
- “Volume 17 — 1975-1977”, 717 pages, May 1998. Searchable PDF format (Large file: 47,642 KB)
- “Volume 18 — 1978-1980”. [Not available.]
- “Volume 19 — 1981”, 610 pages, May 1998. Searchable PDF format (15,931 KB)
Book Series: Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India
Published in New Delhi by the People’s Publishing House, and edited by G. Adhikari & others. Volumes copied from the Internet Archive.
- “Volume 1 — 1917-1922”, 736 pages. PDF format (16,932 KB)
- “Volume 2 — 1923-1925”, 814 pages, published in 1971. PDF format (19,060 KB)
- “Volume 3C — 1928”, 813 pages. Searchable PDF format (25,054 KB)
- “Volume 7 — 1948-1950”, 1,160 pages, reprinted 1975. PDF format (35,552 KB)
- “Volume 8 — 1951-1956”, 680 pages, 1960. PDF format (Large file: 48,494 KB)
Other Materials:
- “Pamphlets on Indian Communism (1912-2011)”, a list of 1,658 pamphlets, compiled by unknown author(s), from an unknown source, 155 pages. [From the contents, this list seems to have been compiled by someone associated with the revisionist Communist Party of India (Marxist), and has very few items from an MLM perspective]. Searchable PDF format (476 KB)