Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work currently being produced in the field of communist biography. Geographically, the contributions take in North America and New Zealand as well as a range of European countries. Some chapters focus on individuals like Clara Zetkin, William Z. Foster, Umberto Terracini, William Gallacher or Jozsef Pogány. Others adopt a collective approach to explore communist cultures in rural Austria or the Netherlands, or the impact of institutions like the International Lenin School. There are also chapters on communist institutional biographies, the role of general secretaries and the significance of generations and family links. Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work currently being produced in the field of communist biography. Geographically, the contributions take in North America and New Zealand as well as a range of European countries. Some chapters focus on individuals like Clara Zetkin, William Z. Foster, Umberto Terracini, William Gallacher or Jozsef Pogány. Others adopt a collective approach to explore communist cultures in rural Austria or the Netherlands, or the impact of institutions like the International Lenin School. There are also chapters on communist institutional biographies, the role of general secretaries and the significance of generations and family links. Contributors 7(4) List of Abbreviations 11(2) Introduction 13(8) Part 1: Methodologies Communist Prosopography in France: Research in Progress based on French Institutional Communist Autobiographies 21(16) Claude Pennetier Bernard Pudal In Search of the Typical British Communist 37(20) Gidon Cohen Andrew Flinn Part 2: Leaders A Hungarian in the Comintern: Jozsef Pogany / John Pepper 57(16) Thomas Sakmyster General Secretariat and General Secretaries: The Case of the French Communist Party 73(20) Jean Vigreux Serge Wolikow A German Communist: Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) 93(18) Tania Unludag-Puschnerat Revolution and Personal Crisis: Communist Politics and Personal Narrative in the Life of William Z. Foster 111(22) James R. Barrett Communist MP: Willie Gallacher and British Communism 133(26) Andrew Thorpe A Communist of a Special Mould: Umberto Terracini's Opposition to the Cominform Turn in 1947 159(14) Aldo Agosti Part 3: Cultures A Family Party? Some Geneaological Reflections on the CPGB 173(24) Kevin Morgan Every Family a Red Fortress? Geneaological Aspects of Communist Biographies in Austria 197(24) Wolfgang Weber The Formative Years of the Communist `Moral Community' in the Netherlands 1917--30 221(24) Gerrit Voerman A Good Comrade, a Good Cadre: Autobiographies and Evaluation Reports as a Part of Cadre Policy in the Finnish Communist Party During the 1940s and 1950s 245(20) Pirjo Kaihovaara Kiwi Comrades: The Social Basis of New Zealand Communism, 1921--48 265(24) Kerry Taylor The Finnish Sector at the International Lenin School 289(20) Joni Krekola Index 309