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John Strachey

Writer whose The Coming Struggle for Power (1932) and The Nature of Capitalist Crisis made him Britain's most widely read Marxist author of the 1930s and a mainstay of the Left Book Club; later a Labour minister.

Lived
1901–1963
Authority records
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Sources
Marxists Internet Archive; Wikipedia — John Strachey (politician); Wikidata — Q334116

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

YearTitleFirst published byRecords
1934Literature and Dialectical MaterialismCovici, Friede, New YorkOpen Library
1938Hope in AmericaModern Age Books, New YorkOpen Library
1941Digging for Mrs. Miller — Some Experiences of an Air-Raid WardenRandom House, New YorkOpen Library
1945Socialism Looks Forward, by John StracheyPhilosophical Library, New YorkOpen Library
1962On the Prevention of WarMacmillanOpen Library
1962The Strangled Cry — And Other Unparliamentary PapersThe Bodley Head, LondonOpen Library

Editions in the catalogue

501930194019501960Died 19631932: 1 title1933: 2 titles1934: 2 titles1935: 2 titles1936: 3 titles1937: 2 titles1938: 4 titles1940: 5 titles1941: 3 titles1944: 2 titles1951: 1 title1952: 1 title1956: 2 titles1957: 1 title1959: 4 titles1961: 1 title
Editions of John Strachey by year: 36 dated titles, 1932–1961, most in 1940 (5). Lines mark died 1963.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1930s16
1940s10
1950s9
1960s1
YearTitleAuthor(s)PublisherLanguage
1932-01-01The Coming Struggle for Power✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1933-01-01The Coming Struggle for Power✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1933The Menace of Fascism✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1934The Coming Struggle for Power✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1934The Menace of Fascism✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1935The Nature of Capital Crisis✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1935The Nature of Capitalist Crisis✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1936Social Credit✓ — An Economic AnalysisJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1936The Coming Struggle for Power✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1936The Theory and Practice of Socialism✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1937The Coming Struggle for PowerJohn StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1937-01-01The Theory and Practice of Socialism✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.Not recorded
1938The Theory and Practice of Socialism✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1938What Are We to Do?✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1938Why You Should Be a Socialist✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1938Why You Should Become a Socialist✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1940A Programm for Progress✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1940A Programme for Progress✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1940Federalism or Socialism?✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1940The Banks for the People✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1940The Theory and Practice of Socialism✓FreeJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1941A Faith to Fight For✓John StracheyLeft Book ClubEnglish
1941-01-01Post D✓ — Some Experiences of an Air-Raid WardenJohn StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1941The Betrayal of the Left✓ — An Examination & Refutation of Communist Policy from October 1939 to January 1941, with Suggestions for an Alternative and an Epilogue on Political Morality
Left Book Club Edition
John Strachey, George Orwell & Harold Joseph LaskiVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1944Why You Should Be a Socialist✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1944Why You Should Be a Socialist, by John Strachey✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1951Labour's Task✓ — "Is This Socialism?"
Fabian Tract -- No.290
John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1952The Frontiers✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1956Contemporary Capitalism✓
Studies on the Principles of Democratic Socialism; 1
John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1956Contemporay Capitalism✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1957Contemporary Capitalism✓
Studies on the Principles of Democratic Socialism; 1
John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1959Contemporary Capitalism✓
Studies on the Principles of Democratic Socialism; 1
John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1959Principles of Democratic Socialism✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1959-01-01The End of Empire✓Free — By John Strachey
Studies on the Principles of Democratic Socialism; 2
John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1959The End of the Empire✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English
1961The End of Empire✓John StracheyVictor Gollancz Ltd.English