Klugmann Collection

Ref: Special Collection

Title: Klugmann Collection

Scope: A collection of books and pamphlets formerly in the Library of the Communist Party of Great Britain, largely on show trials, espionage and treason, often from an East European viewpoint, in the 20th century.

Dates: 1929-1983
Extent: 39 books and 40 pamphlets
Name of creators: Norman John Klugmann and the Communist Party of Great Britain

Administrative / biographical history:
The collection consists of books and pamphlets formerly in the Library of the Communist Party of Great Britain, being acquired for the Library circa 1994. Some of these were at one time the personal property of N.J. Klugmann and bear his signature. Other volumes are stamped or labelled as the property of the Library of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The majority of the items relate to trials (often what are sometimes termed "show trials"), related matters such as espionage and treason, and other political events in, though not exclusively in, Eastern Europe during the 20th century, such as the uprising in Hungary in 1956. There are also a smaller number of items on other political questions of a more general nature.

Norman John (`James´) Klugmann (1912-1977) was of Jewish descent. He became a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, having attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a contemporary of Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cornford in the 1930s. During WWII he served in SOE in Cairo, rising to the rank of major. After the War he devoted himself to the Communist Party, `an undeviating adherent to party orthodoxy´, and was, from 1963 until 1977, editor of Marxism Today.

The collection was acquired circa 1994 following the decision taken in 1990 to wind up the Communist Party of Great Britain.

  • Related collections: Zaidman Collection; Zaidman Papers
  • Source: Purchased in 1994
  • System of arrangement: Numerically
  • Subjects: Communism; Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century; Espionage; Treason; Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
  • Names: Klugmann, Norman John, 1912-1977; Communist Party of Great Britain
  • Conditions of access: Available to all academic researchers, by appointment
  • Restrictions: None
  • Finding aids: Listed

Klugmann Collection - Catalogue of titles

  • 1 BALINT AND OTHERS. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. Tito-fascist kidnappers before the Court, Budapest, November 15-17, 1952. [Budapest], State Publishing House, [?1953]. 79p. [Signature on flyleaf: N.J. Klugmann]
  • 2 BUKHARIN AND OTHERS. USSR. Report of Court proceedings in the case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, March 2-13, 1938 in re: N.I. Bukharin [and others]... Verbatim report. Moscow, Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1938. 800p.
  • 3 BUKHARIN AND OTHERS. PONOMAREV, B., comp. The plot against the Soviet Union and world peace: facts and documents. Compiled from the verbatim report of the Court proceedings in the case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites". London, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., [?1938]. 187p.
  • 4 GROSZ AND OTHERS. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. The trial of Josef Grosz and his accomplices. Budapest, State Publishing House, 1951. 411p.
  • 5 HISS. JOWITT, Earl. The strange case of Alger Hiss. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. 279p. [Stamped on flyleaf: Communist Party Library & Archive 16 St John Street]
  • 6.JOYCE. HALL, J.W., ed. Trial of William Joyce. London, William Hodge and Co., Ltd., 1946. 312p.
  • 7 KOSTOV AND OTHERS. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA. The Trial of Traicho Kostov and his Group. Sofia, 1949. 644p. [ Signature on flyleaf: N.J. Klugmann]

PAM 1. KOSTOV AND OTHERS. CHERVENKOV, Vulko. Fundamental lessons of the discovery of Traicho Kostov's Group and of the struggle for its destruction: on the shortcomings in Party work and our tasks. Report to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, 16th January, 1950. Sofia, (Press Dept.), 1950. 61p.

  • 8 MANIU AND OTHERS. SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF ROMANIA. Trial of the former National Peasant Party leaders Maniu, Mihalache, Penescu, Niculescu-Buzesti and others. After the shorthand notes. Bucharest, 1947. 231p., plates.

PAM 2. MENSHEVIKS. USSR. The Menshevik Trial: the text of the Indictment of the Counter-Revolutionary Menshevik Organisation. London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1931]. 88p.

  • 9 MINDSZENTY. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. Documents on the Mindszenty case. Budapest, 1949. 96p.

PAM 3. MINDSZENTY. EVANS, Stanley G. The trial of Cardinal Mindszenty: an eye witness account by the Rev. Stanley G. Evans. (Religion and the people publication no. 2). (Birmingham, Religion and the People, ?1949). 16p.

PAM 4. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. DOBB, Maurice. The press and the Moscow Trial: an analysis. London, Friends of the Soviet Union, [?1933]. 16p.

PAM 5. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. ANGLO-RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. The Moscow Trial: U.S.S.R. does not spell Mexico. (Reprinted... from the Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committees Press Bulletin). London, Modern Books Ltd, [?1933]. 8p. [Stamped on front cover: C.P. Executive Committee Library 1951]

  • 10 MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS.COATES, W.P. The Moscow Trial (April 1933)]. London, Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee, 1933. 165p. [Signature on t.p.: N.J. Klugmann]
  • 11 MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. CUMMINGS, A.J. The Moscow Trial. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. 287p.

PAM 6. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION. The truth about the Moscow Trial: spies, wreckers and grafters. London, Friends of the Soviet Union, [?1933]. 15p. [Signature on front cover: N.J.Klugmann]

PAM 7. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. GREAT BRITAIN. Correspondence relating to the arrest of employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company at Moscow. (Russia no. 1 (1933). (Cmd. 4286). London, H.M.S.O., 1933. 23p.

PAM 8. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. GREAT BRITAIN. Further correspondence relating to the arrest of employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company at Moscow (In continuation of "Russia No. 1 (1933)," Cmd. 4286). (Russia no. 2 (1933). (Cmd. 4290). London, H.M.S.O., 1933. 20p.

  • 12 MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. USSR. Wrecking activities at power stations in the Soviet Union: the case of N.P. Vitvitsky [and others]... heard before the special Session of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. In Moscow, April 12-19, 1933. Translation of the verbatim report. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [?1933]. 798p. [Includes a loose copy of Air Display Special, issued by the Cambridge Anti-War Council [and others], July, 1935] [Labels on flyleaf: Communist Party Library Picture Library & Archive 99 Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN, and, Ex libris Roland Berger 1904-1991]

PAM 9. MONKHOUSE AND OTHERS. [ANON.] The Moscow Trial. Authentic report: the Indictment, Proceedings, Prosecutors Speech, Defence, the Verdict, the Red Paper (Litvinov). (This authentic report is based on the bulletins issued by the Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee) London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1933]. 64p.

  • 13 NAGY AND OTHERS. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. The Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy of Imre Nagy and his accomplices. [Budapest], Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian Peoples Republic, [?1957]. 170p., plates.

PAM 10. NIKOLAEV AND OTHERS. SHEPHERD, W.G. The truth about the murder of Kirov. London, Modern Books Ltd, [?1935]. 32p. [Stamped on front cover: C.P. Executive Committee Library 1951]

PAM 11. OKULICKI AND OTHERS. USSR. Moscow Trial of 16 Polish Diversionists, June 18-21, 1945. [London], Soviet News, [?1945]. 69p.

  • 14 PETKOV. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA. The trial of Nikola D. Petkov: record of the judicial proceedings August 5 - 15, 1947. Sofia, (Ministry of Information and Arts Press Department), 1947. 632p. [Signature on t.p.: Martin [?]Eve, Bristol]

PAM 12. PYATAKOV AND OTHERS. MOLOTOV, V.M. Lessons of the wrecking, diversionist and espionage activities of the Japanese-German-Trotskyite Agents. Moscow, Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1937. 63p.

PAM 13. PYATAKOV AND OTHERS. POLLITT, Harry and DUTT, R. Palme. The truth about Trotskyism: Moscow Trial, January 1937. The complete text of the Indictment. London, Communist Party of Great Britain, 1937. 36p.

  • 15 PYATAKOV AND OTHERS. USSR. Report of Court proceedings in the case of the Anti- Soviet Trotskyite Centre heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, January 23-30, 1937, in re: Y.L. Pyatakov [and others]... Moscow, Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R, 1937. 580p. [Includes loose leaflet: The Comments of a British Lawyer [Dudley Collard] on the trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre]
  • 16 PYATAKOV AND OTHERS. USSR. The Moscow Trial (January, 1937) and two speeches by J. Stalin...compiled by W.P. Coates and Zelda K. Coates. London, Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee, 1937. 281p. [Stamped on t.p. and half-title: C.P. Executive Committee Library 1951. Half-title bears label: The Dona Torr Library. Presented to the Communist Party, 1957]
  • 17 PYATAKOV AND OTHERS. USSR. Il processo Antitrotskista del 1937. Roma, Capriotti Editore, (1946). 391p. [Signature on flyleaf: N.J. Klugmann. Milan. July, 1946.]
  • 18 RADEK. COLLARD, Dudley. Soviet justice and the trial of Radek and others. London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. 208p. [Stamped on half-title: Communist Party Library & Archive 16 St John Street]
  • 19 RAJK. KARTUN, Derek. Titos plot against Europe: the story of the Rajk conspiracy. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1949. 124p.

PAM 14. RAMZIN AND OTHERS. [ANON.] Working women! War is coming!: the Moscow Trial reveals the boss class war plot. How can we fight against these plans for slaughtering the workers? London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1931]. 16p.

PAM 15. RAMZIN AND OTHERS. HOLMES, W. M. The wreckers exposed in the trial of the Counter-Revolutionary Industrial Party. London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1931]. 24p.

  • 20 RAMZIN AND OTHERS. ROTHSTEIN, Andrew ed. Wreckers on trial: a record of the trial of the Industrial Party [Leonid Konstantinovitch Ramzin and others] held in Moscow, Nov.- Dec., 1930. London, Modern Books Ltd., 1931. 214p.[Signature on t.p.: John Lewis]

PAM 16. RAMZIN AND OTHERS. SOVIET UNION SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. A clash of two systems: what told the Trial of the "Indiustrial Party". Moscow, VOKS, 1931. 70p.

  • 21 ROSENBERGS. ROSENBERG, Julius and Ethel. The Rosenberg letters. London, Dennis Dobson, 1953. 191p. [Includes a loose ms. letter of recommendation from The Forty-Four Cafe-Snack Bar, 44 Berwick St, W.1. on behalf of B.Wise]
  • 22 ROSENBERGS. RADOSH, Ronald and MILTON, Joyce. The Rosenberg file: a search for the truth. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 511p. [Stamped on half-title: Communist Party Library and Archive]
  • 23 SHIPKOV AND OTHERS. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA. The trial of the American spies in Bulgaria. Sofia, 1950. 125p. [Stamped on t.p.: C.P. Executive Committee Library 1951]

PAM 17. SLANSKY AND OTHERS. The Prague Trial: its anti-Jewish implications. London, Woburn Press, [?1953]. 19p. [Front endpaper bears label: Communist Party Picture Library & Archive 99 Wallis Road London E9 5LN]

  • 24 TITO. KLUGMANN, James. From Trotsky to Tito. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1951. 208p. [Front endpaper bears label: Communist Party Library Picture Library & Archive 99 Wallis Road London E9 5LN]
  • 25 TITO. NOVAK, Antun. I served Tito. Prague, Orbis, 1951. 69p. [Signature on flyleaf: N.J. Klugmann]

PAM 18. TUKHACHEVSKY AND OTHERS. GEORGE, H. R. Eight Soviet generals plotted against peace. London, Friends of the Soviet Union, [?1938]. 18p.

  • 26 VOGELER AND OTHERS. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. R. Vogeler, E. Sanders and their accomplices before the Criminal Court. Budapest, Hungarian State Publishing House, 1950. 311p.
  • 27 ZIAPKOV AND OTHERS. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA. The Trial of the Fifteen Protestant pastors - spies. Sofia, 1949. 151p. [Signature on front cover: W. Alexander]

PAM 19. ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. ADLER, Friedrich. The Witchcraft Trial in Moscow. London, Commission of Enquiry into the Conditions of Political Prisoners, 1936. 36p.

PAM 20. ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. PRITT, D. N. The Moscow Trial was fair...with additional material on the personalities and background of the Trial by Pat Sloan. (London, "Russia Today"), [?1936]. 15p.

PAM 21. ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. PRITT, D. N. The Zinoviev Trial. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. 39p.

PAM 22. ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. SHEPHERD, W. G. The Moscow Trial, August, 1936. London, Communist Party of Great Britain, 1936. 16p.

PAM 23. ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. TROTSKY, Leon. I stake my life:Trotsky answers the Moscow Trials. London, British Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky, (1937). 15p.

  • 28 ZINOVIEV AND OTHERS. USSR. Report of Court proceedings. The case of the Trotskyite -Zinovievite Terrorist Centre heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, August 19-24, 1936. In re G.E. Zinoviev [and others]... Moscow, Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1936. 180p.

General titles:

PAM 24. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. (NEUES DEUTSCHLAND and others). On the situation in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. [?Berlin, ?GDR, ?1968]. 96p.

  • 29 HUNGARY. BOLDIZSAR, Ivan. Against the Hungarian people. Budapest, Hungarian State Publishing House, 1952. 144p.

PAM 25. HUNGARY. COUTTS, Charlie. Eye-witness in Hungary. (London), Daily Worker, (1957). 32p.

  • 30 HUNGARY. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. The Counter- Revolutionary forces in the October events in Hungary. [Budapest], Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian Peoples Republic, [?1957]. 4 vols.
  • 31 HUNGARY. HUNGARIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC. Documents on the hostile activity of the United States Government against the Hungarian Peoples Republic. Compiled by the Information Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs... Budapest, Hungarian State Publishing House, 1951. 323p. [Signature on front cover: Alexander]

PAM 26. HUNGARY. KALLAI, Gyula. The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the light of Marxism-Leninism. (Budapest, Rakoczi Publishers), [?1957]. 37p.

PAM 27. HUNGARY. KUZNETSOV, V. V. Documents on Hungary (second collection): speeches by V.V. Kuznetsov, Deputy Foreign Minister and head of Soviet Delegation to UNO at Plenary Meetings of the General Assembly December 3rd, 4th & 10th, 1956. (Soviet News booklet no. 26). London, Soviet News, [?1957]. 31p.

PAM 28. HUNGARY. PRAVDA. Supplement: bloody crimes of the Counter-Revolution in Hungary. An abridged version published by "Pravda" of the White Paper put out by the Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian Peoples Republic entitled "Counter-Revolutionary forces in October events in Hungary". (London), Soviet News, 1956. 16p.

PAM 29. HUNGARY. UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION. Documents on Hungary: speeches at UNO. With appendix. (Soviet News booklet no. 24). (London, Soviet News, [?1957]. 71p.

PAM 30. UNITED STATES. EDWARDS, Bob and DUNNE, Kenneth. A study of a master spy, Allen Dulles. (London, Housmans and Chemical Workers Union, 1961). 80p. [Stamped on t.p.: Communist Party Library and Archive 16 St John Street]

  • 32 UNITED STATES. KAHN, Albert E. High treason: the plot against the people. 5th ed. Croton-on-the-Hudson, N.Y., The Hour Publishers, 1951. 372p.
  • 33 UNITED STATES. MATUSOW, Harvey. False witness. [Confessions of a paid informer for Senator Joseph McCarthy]. New York, Cameron & Kahn, 1955. 255p. [Includes loose leaflet entitled: False witnesses: the informer racket in Western Penna.]

PAM 31. USSR. ANDREWS, R. F. The truth about Trotsky. London, Communist Party of Great Britain, 1934. 69p. [Label on t.p.:Communist Party Library Picture Library & Archive 99 Wallis Road London E9 5LN]

PAM 32. USSR. KRZHYZHANOVSKY, G. M. Anti-Soviet sabotage exposed. New York, Workers Library Publishers, [c.1929]. 40p. [Label on front inside cover: With compliments of World Tourists Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue New York,
N.Y.]

  • 34 USSR. SAYERS, Michael and KAHN, Albert E. The great conspiracy. New York, Boni & Gaer, 1946 repr. 1947. 160p. [Signatures on t.p.: A. Norwood, Council Flat-let No. 2 Alfred St Ryde;[and] JN. 7/4/49.]
  • 35 USSR. SAYERS, Michael and KAHN, Albert E. The great conspiracy against Russia. London, Collets Holdings Ltd., 1946. 486p.

PAM 33. USSR. STALIN, M. Wrecking, espionage and terrorism in the U.S.S.R. Speeches by M. Stalin at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, March 3 and 5, 1937. London, Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee, 1937. 36p.

Other titles:
PAM 34. [ANON.] 50,000,000 unemployed, 150,000,000 starving: world capitalisms crisis, "Labours" policy, Russia forges ahead, Our task. London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1930]. 16p.

PAM 35. DIETRICH, P. R. The war of intervention against the Soviet Union and the Second International. London, Modern Books Ltd., 1931. 45p.

PAM 36. FYFE, James. Lysenko is right. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1950. 65p.

PAM 37. LANGOVOY, A. How the capitalist governments disarm. Moscow, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1931. 32p. [Signature on t.p. in Cyrillic script: (?) Ozrip]

PAM 40. LASKI, Harold J. Political offences and the death penalty. (The Sixth Roy Calvert Memorial Lecture, 1940). Welwyn Garden City, National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, [1940]. 12p.

  • 36 NICOLSON, Harold, ed. Lidice: a tribute by members of the International P.E.N. Introduction by the Hon. Harold Nicolson. [London], published for the Czechoslovak P.E.N. by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1944. 101p.

PAM 38. RAZUMOVA, Anna. Russian women in the building of socialism. London, Modern Books Ltd., [?1930]. 23p.

  • 37 RENNAP, I. Anti-semitism and the Jewish question. London, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, (1942). 116p.

PAM 39. SACKS, George. The Jewish question. (The new peoples library. Vol. 11). London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. [On cover:] Left Book Club edition: not for sale to the public. [Stamped on half-title: Communist Party Library & Archive 16 St Hohn Street. Inside front cover has label with ms. in ink: Bangor Socialist Societ Library. Book no. 71]