Abstract

This paper challenges the methods and conclusions of an article on British students at the International Lenin School by Gidon Cohen and Kevin Morgan published in a recent issue of Twentieth Century British History. It questions their model of relations between the Comintern and its national affiliates, and their assertion of the prominence and total nature of the Lenin School as a control mechanism of the former over the latter. After demonstrating the inadequacy of their data and methodology, it indicates significant deficiencies and omissions in their handling of qualitative evidence relevant to the influence of the school on its students. It concludes by showing that the authors underestimate the scale and duration of the impact of the school's graduates upon the apparatus of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

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