Donny Gluckstein Explained

Donny Gluckstein (born 1954) is a British historian at Edinburgh College.^[1] He went to the University of Warwick in 1974 and graduated in history.

The son of Tony Cliff^[2] and Chanie Rosenberg, he is the author of numerous books and articles. In 2013 his book A People's History of the Second World War was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award.^[3]

Selected works

• The Western Soviets: Workers' Councils versus Parliament, 1915-20 (London: Bookmarks: 1985).
• Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926 (co-authored with Tony Cliff) (London: Bookmarks, 1986).
• The Labour Party: A Marxist history (coauthored with Tony Cliff) (London: Bookmarks: 1988/1996).
• The Tragedy of Bukharin (London: Pluto, 1994).
• The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class (London: Bookmarks, 1999, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2012).
• The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy (London: Bookmarks: 2006, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2011).
• A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance versus Empire (London: Pluto, 2012).
• Fighting on all fronts: Popular Resistance in the Second World War (editor) (London: Bookmarks: 2015).
• Hegel and Revolution (co-authored with Terry Sullivan) (London: Bookmarks, 2020).
• The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands (co-authored with Janey Stone) (London: Bookmarks, 2024).

External links

• The Donny Gluckstein Internet Archive Articles at Marxists.org
• Articles for Socialist Review.
• Profile at Haymarket Books
• Interview with Donny Gluckstein from 2012 at New Left Project.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile page: Donny Gluckstein . www.press.uchicago.edu . . 2 October 2016 . 3 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161003071033/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/G/D/au21612535.html . dead .
2. News: Letters page: Guardian . . 14 April 2000 .
3. Web site: 2013 Award page: Bread and Roses . breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . 5 March 2013 . .