The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future

The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project

“…This designation turned on its members' substantial or continuous presence on the majority, 80% or 100%, of the five committees that were elected in this period. The criterion is numerical and therefore restricted: some members of the 'core' exercised more power and greater influence than others and this is suggested in their biographies (McIlroy and Campbell, 2021).…”

“…The second paper will profile the 19 Communists who featured on four or five committees between (McIlroy & Campbell, 2021. We have designated this contingent, elected to 80% or 100% of the committees which brought to the leadership the element of stability the Bolsheviks valued, as the 'core' of the cohort.…”