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Socialist ideas and movements
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This chapter examines the evolution of Wilkinson’s ideas and her affiliations to left organisations. From the organisational viewpoint, Wilkinson went through a series of left groups that frame her political ideas: the ILP, the University Socialist Federation, the National Guilds League, the CPGB, the Left-Wing Movement, the ILP and the Fabian Society. Particularly significant in this evolution was her membership of the CPGB (1920-4) and her relationship with Communism. This chapter charts her changing attitude to the Soviet Union and the chronology of her political itinerary. She underwent a radicalisation associated with the revolutionary ferment from 1917 to 1923. Her ideas drifted thereafter until economic crisis and events in India and Germany prompted her once again to adopt the language of revolution and class struggle. Her final break with the Soviet Union occurred with the Hitler-Stalin pack and the Winter War against Finland.

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‘Red Ellen’ Wilkinson

Her ideas, movements and world

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