LEFT BOOK CLUB (VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD.)
Series Note: The Left Book Club was a "British book club created by [Victor] Gollancz in 1936 to combat the rise of Fascism and create the basis for a ‘popular front’ through the marketing and large-scale international distribution of left-wing books. (...) Subscribers received one publication monthly for 5s. 6d., along with the newsletter Left Book News."
-- Kate Longworth, "Left Book Club" (entry) in: The Oxford Companion to the Book, O.U.P. (online version).
Further Reading
John Lewis, The Left Book Club: An Historical Record, London, Victor Gollancz, 1970. Foreword by Dame Margaret Cole. John Lewis was the Convener of the L.B.C. Groups in the years 1936-40.
See also:
Right Book Club
Arranged in order of date of publication
1936
Cripps, Stafford (1936). The Struggle for Peace.
Malraux, André (1936). Days of Contempt.
Noel-Baker, Philip (1936). The Private Manufacture of Armaments.
Olden, Rudolf (1936). Hitler the Pawn.
Salvemini, Gaetano (1936). Under the Axe of Fascism.
Strachey, John (1936). The Theory and Practice of Socialism.
1937
Attlee, C. R. (1937). The Labour Party In Perspective.
Brady, Robert A. (1937). The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism.
Cole, G. D. H.; Cole, M. I. (1937). The Condition of Britain.
Cole, G. D. H. (1937). The People's Front.
Collard, Dudley (1937). Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek and Others. [1]
Cox, Geoffrey. Defence of Madrid.
Koestler, Arthur (1937). Spanish Testament.
Odets, Clifford (1937). Waiting for Lefty.
Orwell, George (1937). The Road to Wigan Pier.
Sloan, Pat (1937). Soviet Democracy. [2]
Snow, Edgar (1937). Red Star Over China.
Spender, Stephen (1937). Forward from Liberalism.
Strachey, John (1937). The Coming Struggle for Power.
Tawney, R. H. (1937). The Acquisitive Society.
Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice (1937). Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation.
1938
Haldane, J. B. S. (1938). A. R. P.
Jones, F. Elwyn (1938). The Battle for Peace.
Smedley, Agnes (1938). China Fights Back: An American Woman with the Eighth Route Army.
Strachey, John (1938). What Are We to Do?
Strachey, John (1938). Why You Should Be A Socialist.
Vigilantes (1938). Why the League has Failed.
1939
Addison, Lord (1939). A Policy for British Agriculture.
Barnes, Leonard (1939). Empire or Democracy?
Campbell, J. R. (1939). Soviet Policy and its Critics. [3]
Cole, G. D. H. (1939). War Aims.
Gedye, G. E. R. (1939). Fallen Bastions: The Central European Tragedy.
Kuczynski, Jürgen (1939). The Condition of the Workers in Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union 1932-1938.
Johnson, Hewlett (1939). The Socialist Sixth of the World.
Swingler, Stephen (1939). An Outline of Political Thought Since the French Revolution.
Vigilantes (1939). Why We Are Losing the Peace: The National Government's Foreign Policy: Its Causes, Consequences and Cure.
Wilkinson, Ellen (1939). The Town That Was Murdered: The Life Story of Jarrow.
1940
Constantine, Murray (1940). Swastika Night.
Strachey, John (1940). Federalism or Socialism?
Strachey, John (1940). A Programme for Progress.
Frölich, Paul (1940). Rosa Luxemburg.
1941
Cole, G. D. H. (1941). Europe, Russia and the Future.
Edelman, Maurice (1941). Production for Victory, Not Profit!
Koestler, Arthur (1941). Scum of the Earth.
The Pied Piper (1941). Rats!
Snow, Edgar (1941). Scorched Earth.
Strachey, John (1941). A Faith to Fight For.
1942
Smith, Aubrey Douglas (1942). Guilty Germans?
Cole, G. D. H. (1942). Great Britain in the Post-War World.
Mallalieu, J. P. W. (1942). Passed to You, Please: Britain's Red-Tape Machine at War.
Neumann, Franz (1942). Behemoth. The Structure and Practice of National-Socialism.
1943
Cole, G. D. H. (1943). The Means to Full Employment.
Braunthal, Julius (1943). Need Germany Survive?
Burger, John (1943). The Black Man's Burden.
Hagen, Paul (1943). Will Germany Crack? A Factual Report on Germany from Within.
1944
Laski, Harold J. (1944). Faith, Reason and Civilisation: An Essay in Historical Analysis.
Smedley, Agnes (1944). Battle Hymn of China.
Sturmthal, Adolf (1944). The Tragedy of European Labour 1918-1939.
Zilliacus, Konni (1944). The Mirror Of The Past: Lest it Reflect the Future.
1945
Anderson, Evelyn (1945). Hammer or Anvil: The Story of the German Working-Class Movement.
Braunthal, Julius (1945). In Search of the Millenium.
Mosley, Leonard O. (1945). Report from Germany.
1946
Blum, Léon (1946). For All Mankind.
Brockway, Fenner (1946). German Diary.
Roth, Andrew (1946). Dilemma In Japan.
1947
Hill, Russell (1947). Struggle for Germany.
Keppel-Jones, Arthur (1947). When Smuts Goes.
Schlotterbeck, Friedrich (1947). The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars.
Schuschnigg, Kurt (1947). Austrian Requiem.
1948
Cole, G. D. H. (1948). The Meaning of Marxism.
Braunthal, Julius (1948). The Tragedy of Austria.
Haag, Lina (1948). How Long the Night.
Lingens-Reiner, Ella (1945). Prisoners of Fear.
Walker, Oliver (1948). Kaffirs are Lively.
Footnotes
[1] A defence of the first two Moscow Trials.
[2] Praising the 1936 Soviet Constitution.
[3] Defending the Popular Front and criticizing Trotsky.
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