Russia and the British Left: From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike

The study of native ‘Marxisms' in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as ‘the enemy within'. In this book, David Burke looks at the activities of the Russian political emigre community in Britain, and in particular the role of one Russian-Jewish political family: the Rothsteins. Theodore Rothstein and his son Andrew, along with his sister-in-law Zelda Kahan and her husband, W. P. Coates, together played an important part in the formative years of the Communist Part...