Papers of Harry Wicks 1920s-1980s

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Papers of Harry Wicks 1920s-1980s

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0.468 cubic metres

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Wicks, Harry, 1905-1989

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Harry Wicks (1905-1989) joined the Communist Party in 1920. He worked on Victoria Station, London and was editor of a railwaymen's paper the Victoria Signal. Wicks was influenced at work by an I.L.P. signal man called Harry Manning. In 1926 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Young Communist League and in the following year he was selected to study at the International Lenin School (I.L.S.) in Moscow. The I.L.S. as a privileged training school for Communist militants. Dur...

Wicks Harry Trotskyist

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Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...