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Archive Series: MS 1712/CO

8. Correspondence

1942-1994

Throughout his lifetime Miliband corresponded extensively with the world-wide community of socialists, and other intellectuals. In many cases there is correspondence going both ways, as Miliband often...

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/1

Correspondence Personal and official post-war and U.S. correspondence, MS and TS.

1942-1950

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/10

Correspondence with, inter alia, David Widgery, Martin Shaw, Penelope Mullen, Julio Rodriguez Aramberri, Lisa Vives, Hamza Alavi, Elizabeth Lebas, Staunton Flanders, Henry Cooperstock, Allan Patience, Lelio Basso, John Griffith, Howard Margolis, K. S. Karol, Lawrence Harris, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Eve, Ludolfo Paramio, Doug McEachern, Tamara Deutscher, Ike Balbus, Peter Gabel, Gabor Tamas Rittersporn, Nigel Harris, Michael Lipman, Steven Lukes, John Saville, Ken Coates, John Schwarzmantel, Jack Cohen, Thomas Bossert, Giorgio Fanti, Duncan Campbell, Leo Panitch, Yakov Talmon (Jacob Talmon), C.S. Newman, Neal Wood, David Horowitz, Paul Parker, Frank Adler, Harry Lazer, and Dick Gillam.

1977-1978

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/11

Correspondence with, inter alia, Maria Alves, Francois Masnata, Norman Birnbaum, K. S. Karol, Tamara Deutscher, Fran?ois Masnata, Michael Lipman, Winston Higgins, Richard Ashcraft, John Griffith, John Saville, Sam Bowles, Steven Lukes, and David Horowitz.

1978

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/12

Correspondence with, inter alia, Winifred Breines, Ken Coates, Fred Block, George Ross, Kay Trimberger, Monty Johnstone, Elmar Altvater, and Tom Nairn.

1979

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/13

Correspondence with, inter alia, David Martin, Lelio Basso, Doug McEachern, Karl Klare, George Ross, Ludolfo Paramio, Rusty Simonds, Peggy Somers, Paul Breines, David Parker, Perry Anderson, (reference written by Miliband for) Winifred Breines, John Schwarzmantel, David Musson, John Husband, Edward Thompson, Kurt Wolff, Luis Rubio, Steven Unger, George Marlow, Helena Sheehan, Leo Panitch, Steven Lukes, Robert Cohen (including "Yugoslav Notes VIII”, 48 pp.), TS ‘memoire de recherche’ "Restructuration industrielle et neo-corporatisme: le cas de l'horlogerie en Suisse” by Georges Piotet, Sept 1980; correspondence with Milan Nikolic, Carla Wolff, David Smith; a press-cutting "Marxists on the campus - in the faculty”, Economics, 3 pp., photocopy; TS "The political economy of neo-conservatism in Britain, 1979-1982”; correspondence with Jeff Henderson, (letter of recommendation written by Miliband for) Lee Karlin, Paul Hoch, Carl Lankowski (incl. table of contents of his PhD thesis "Germany and the European Communities: Anatomy of a Hegemonial Relation”), Richard Bernstein (re: the Belgrade professors, members of the Yugoslav Praxis group), Peter Sedgwick, Joseph Condic, and Ernesto Laclau.

1978-1980

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/14

Correspondence with, inter alia, John Saville, Richard Gruneu, Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Bernstein, Mihailo Markovic, Robert Cohen, Joachim Israel, several people re: the C. Wright Mills Award (incl. related documents), Carl Lankowski, Elizabeth Rapaport, Jack Colhoun, Gabriel Fischer; letters of recommendation written by Miliband for Alan Gilbert, Lise Vogel, Robert Drislane, and J.P. Curran; correspondence with Helen Grayson, Gunter Minnerup, Ken Coates, K. S. Karol (with press-cuttings in Italian), Isaac Kramnick, Ludolfo Paramio, Vicente Navarro, and a letter from Laura Summers to Ken Fleet (with TS of a talk about the revolution in Kampuchea by Summers "On Understanding and Supporting the Revolution”, 7 ff.). Also in this file: draft paper by Margaret R. Somers (Peggy Somers): "The Factory Movement, the Anti-Poor Law Movement, and Chartism: a comparative historical study of three 19thC. English working class movements”, 14 ff., 1979; correspondence and related material relating to the Praxis International, 1980; text (TS with MS corrections) of the memorial address on the death of Nicos Poulantzas; review by T.L. Fisher of The Socialist Register 1978, and programme of "Marxism ‘79” seminars organised by the Socialist Worker Student Organisation.

1979-1981

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/15

Simon Fellowship, Manchester, etc. Correspondence related to Miliband’s application for the Simon Fellowship 1981/2 at the University of Manchester. Also correspondence relating to Miliband’s applications for professorships in Politics at the universities of Warwick, Cambridge and Essex.

1977-1981

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/16

Correspondence with, inter alia, Robert Schrire, Melina Serafetinidis, Judy Ruben, Winston James, John MacKenzie, Winifred Breines, Kurt Wolff, Leo Panitch (incl. his full CV and a letter of recommendation written for him by Miliband), Patrick Hughes, Tom Bell, George Ross, Elaine Hagopian, Jenny Warren, Jerry Karabel, John Saville, Michael Burawoy, Susanne Mueller, Buddhadeva Bhattacharyya, Gene Lyons (circular letter), Stanley Hoffman, Mihailo Markovic, John Griffith, Michael Burawoy (incl. his full CV), Karen Rosenberg (with a draft article on the British Left), Edward Boyle (Vice-Chancellor of Leeds, a former Tory cabinet minister), Steven Unger, Hal Draper, Marx Wartofsky, Allen Hunter, Pino Taggliazucchi, Pavel Joseph, Rusty Simonds, Luis Rubio, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, Vicente Navarro, Ann Tickner, Carmen Siriani, Chuck Andelman, Paul Derrick, Irene Gendzier, Peggy Somers, Perry Anderson, Makoto Kitanishi, Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Sainlauf, John Saul, and John Dunn (with an essay by "Totalitarian Democracy and the Legacy of Modern Revolutions: Explanation or Indictment?”, 25 ff.).

1980-1982

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/17

Correspondence with, inter alia, Robin Cohen (with a review article by Cohen "Althusser Meets Anancy: Structuralism and Popular Protest in Ken Post’s History of Jamaica” commissioned by The Sociological Review for publication in 1982, 13 ff.), Melina Serafetinidis (with an article "Class Contradictions and Political Change in Postwar Greece”, 39 ff., offered for publication to the New Left Review); letters of recommendation written by Miliband for Paul Wenlock and Greta Jones; correspondence with Zygmunt Bauman, Phil Hall, Martin Shaw, John Griffith, Paul Wenlock, Allen Hunter, Irene Gendzier, Mike Allen, Steven Lukes (incl. a photocopy of a letter from Noam Chomsky to Lukes, photocopies of press-cuttings of a debate between Lukes and Chomsky), R.A. Holroyd (with his proposal for a book / research topic "Economic Theory as Ideology - A Study in the Sociology of ‘Western’ Economic Thought from the 18th century - 1980”, 8 ff.), Chris Wrigley (with his pamphlet "The Government and Industrial Relations in Britain 1910-1921), "The Committee to Free Michael Culbert”/Monica Culbert (with related documents), and Pavel Joseph. Also in this file: a programme of the "Concert in Memory of The Right Hon Lord Boyle of Handsworth, CH”, 18 January 1982; an issue of the journal "Avti” with an article about Miliband and the Socialist Register, in Greek; “A Review of J. Hirsch’s ‘The State Apparatus and Social Reproduction: Elements of a Theory of the Bourgeois State’” by Riel Miller, 20 ff., January 1981; application for a grant by A.P. "Rusty” Simonds, 22 ff.; correspondence and proposal for an "(unnamed) book on the law” due to have been published in 1982, to which Miliband was to contribute an essay but withdrew due to work on his book Capitalist Democracy in Britain; TS of article (by ?) "The New Right and the Crisis in the Public Sector”, 17 ff., photocopy; an article "In the Wings: New Right Ideology and Organisation” by Allen Hunter, photocopy, and related press-cuttings, 33 ff; typed notes (with MS corrections) about the Merlin Press by Miliband (?) with accounts for 1978/9, 6 ff.; a paper by Margaret R. Somers (Peggy Somers): "The Factory Movement, the Anti-Poor Law Movement, and Chartism: a comparative historical study of three 19thC. English working class movements”, 15 ff., 1980, 2 copies (see also file CO/14); and TS by Gus Kelley "Thoughts on Veblen”, 10 ff.

1979-1982

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/2

Correspondence with Ernst Wohlgemuth (fellow student at the LSE) MS letter from Miliband to Donald Chesworth and Peter Merriton, 16.6.1949; photocopies of correspondence from Miliband to Ernst Wohlgemuth, 1949-1962.

1948-1962

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Archive File: MS 1712/CO/3

Correspondence with, inter alia, Constance Seville, Tom Nairn, Perry Anderson, Jon Halliday, Lelio Basso, Ken Coates, John Saville, and Irving Horowitz. Essays by Miliband: "The Great Debate: 1982” (2 copies; 6 ff.), "Mills and Politics” (13 ff.), "The Reluctant Rebel” (review). Press-cuttings relating to C. Wright Mills. Letters from readers of Monthly Review, (incl. from the Berrigan Brothers), passed on to Miliband by Leo Huberman, then co-editor of Monthly Review.

1960-1963

Includes letters, essays and editorials. There are also book reviews.

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