Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): Scottish communist Alan Campbell (1-2); resuming political activity on return to Glasgow from Canada in January 1930, including campaigning for the unemployed and encountering strong Stalinism of the Scottish party (6); becoming national chairman of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement and being compelled against his will to lead a delegation to the Soviet Union in 1931 (6-7); impressions on visits to Leningrad, the Kremlin, a Russian village church, the Crimea and Jewish weavers in Kiev (7-11); denial by Kalinin of the existence of labour camps in the Soviet Union (12); McShane’s enthusiasm for the Moscow May Day parade (misplaced in retrospect) (12); Russian Jewish refugees in Glasgow (13); McShane’s frustration with the rigid Stalinism of former Lenin School students like Ted Willis and Jack Cole who came to Glasgow (13-14).
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