1956: John Saville, EP Thompson & The reasoner

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Machine Generated Contents Note: The Communist Party In 1956 -- Documents -- Harry Pollitt, The Twentieth Congress Of The Cpsu -- And The Role Of Stalin -- The Lessons Of The Twentieth Congress Of The Cpsu -- Rajani Palme Dutt, The Great Debate -- John Saville, Problems Of The Communist Party -- Rajani Palme Dutt, New Times, New Measures -- E P Thompson, Winter Wheat In Omsk -- George Matthews, A Caricature Of Our Party -- Khrushchev's Report -- Derek Kartun, Ideas And Methods Of Work -- Reasoning And The Reasoner -- The Reasoner, No 1 -- Editorial Comments -- Why We Are Publishing -- Taking Stock -- Ken Alexander, Democratic Centralism -- E P Thompson, Reply To George Matthews -- Correspondence -- A L, What Is Socialism? -- John Mcleish, An Open Letter From A `premature Anti-stalinist' -- K Hughes, Where Do We Stand Now? -- R Cocker, Needed: A Party Of A New Type -- Documents -- The Rajk Case, Daily Worker (new York) -- Letter From Steve Nelson, Daily Worker (new York) -- Statement By The Editorial Board, Jewish Life -- Andrzej Braun, A Polish Self-examination, Nova Kultura -- The Reasoner, No 2 -- Editorial -- The Case For Socialism -- Ronald L Meek, What Should We Do About The Reasoner? -- Doris Lessing, A Letter To The Editors -- Hyman Levy, The Place Of Unorthodoxy In Marxism -- Bertolt Brecht, To Posterity -- John Saville, World Socialism Restated: A Comment -- Readers' Round-up -- Correspondence -- J Lyons, Democratic Centralism -- P Jordan, Discussion And Democracy -- Lawrence Daly, `the Long Road Back' -- Rodney Hilton, Labour -- Communist Relations -- Jim Johnson, Beware Of Attempts To Stifle The Discussion -- E Sleight, Marxism: Science And Dogma -- P Shelley, A Lesson From History -- Documents -- Helena Eilstein, Problems Of Free Discussion In Poland -- An American Assessment Of The Stalin Era -- The Communist Party And The Reasoner: Documents Communist Party Executive Committee Statement On The Reasoner -- The Reasoner: Statement By The Communist Party Executive Committee -- Statement By The Executive Committee Of The Communist Party On The Reasoner -- The Reasoner, No 3 -- Editorial -- E P Thompson, Through The Smoke Of Budapest -- Sheila Lynd, Leslie Sewell, Ursula Cox, Three Letters On The Reasoner -- Derek Kartun, Seeing The Trees For The Wood -- Democratic Centralism -- G D H Cole, Reflections -- An American View, Democracy And Dissent -- P H, On Democratic Centralism -- `de-stalinisation' -- Ronald L Meek, Notes From A Polish Diary -- K Simonov, On Fadeyev -- Ursula Wassermann, Hungary And Socialist Democracy -- John Saville, An Open Letter To R Page Arnot -- Bob Davies, Some Notes On The 1937-38 Purges -- Correspondence: J Young, E Martin, Stella Jull, M D, Doris Lessing, And Others -- E P Thompson And John Saville, Statement By The Editors -- Ronald Meek, The Marxist-leninist's Song -- Essays -- John Mcilroy, John Saville And Stalinism: An Exploration -- Paul Flewers, E P Thompson And The Soviet Experience. Edited By Paul Flewers & John Mcilroy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.