Left Movements in Turkey 1925-1936 Volume-2

First, I thought of publishing the Documents for this time period by separating the main narrative, as I did in the last (1991) edition of the volume of my book regarding the period 1908-25. I'm giving up on this for now and releasing the two parts together.
I tried to give the story of this period, most of which revolved around the TKP, in a simple chronological order. The information contained in the documents is repeated in this narrative, which I hope to develop and expand in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to read the story of each year together with the documents related to that year. Because of the illegal and underground work of the Left in the 1925-36 period, it took me much longer to collect these documents than they did to produce them. However, the collection I have created is far from complete. I do not have important texts such as the reports that the opposition factions must have sent to the Comintern and the "separat" decision taken by the Comintern for the TKP in 1936. Their existence and content can only be understood indirectly. Moreover, most of the texts I could obtain were only in faint copies. It is impossible to fully disassemble, especially those that have been mimeographed from old handwriting.

The main sources for this volume must have been collected in the Turkish section of the old Comintern Library and in the TKP archive. I could not directly access these collections, both of which are located in Moscow. But I hope one day I can get permission from the authorities to work on them. Just like before 1925 and after 1936, the left history of the 1925-36 period can only be investigated objectively after these sources are presented. I did not include texts from books such as "Türkiye Series in Communist International Documents" by Aydınlik Publications in this compilation. I contented myself with making references to them in the historical narrative. For now, that's all I can do. I owe a big thank you to everyone who helped me find and read the documents presented here.



Number of Pages: 700

Year of Printing: 2009


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 700

First Printing Year: 2009

Language Turkish