Publishers · United Kingdom

Martin Lawrence

Defunct

The Communist Party of Great Britain's official press, publishing Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in English alongside party pamphlets. It was set up in 1927 to take over the party's publishing (one library catalogue record gives a Martin Lawrence imprint dated 1926, possibly a cataloguing error). It did not close so much as merge: in 1936 it combined with Wishart Ltd, Ernest Wishart's left-wing, anti-fascist family firm, to form Lawrence & Wishart, which still publishes in London (one source, Spartacus Educational, gives 1935, but Yale's archive, Lawrence & Wishart's own history and Wikipedia all give 1936).

Years
1927–1936
Location
London, United Kingdom
Also known as
Martin Lawrence Ltd
Affiliation
Publisher of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Languages
English
Succeeded by
Lawrence & Wishart
Authority records
Wikidata · VIAF
Sources
Yale University Archives — Lawrence & Wishart records; Lawrence & Wishart — History; Wikipedia — Lawrence & Wishart

Backlist

43019201930Founded 1927Closed 19361926: 1 title1927: 6 titles1928: 3 titles1929: 14 titles1930: 8 titles1931: 16 titles1932: 21 titles1933: 33 titles1934: 43 titles1935: 16 titles1936: 7 titles1937: 1 title
Titles of Martin Lawrence by year: 169 dated titles, 1926–1937, most in 1934 (43); 31 undated. Lines mark founded 1927 and closed 1936.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1920s24
1930s145
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1926Ten Days That Shook the World✓FreeJohn ReedEnglish
1927Karl Marx✓ — Man, Thinker, and Revolutionist: A Symposium—English
1927Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels✓FreeDavid RyazanovEnglish
1927Materialism and Empirio-Criticism✓Free — Critical Notes Concerning a Reactionary Philosophy
Collected Works of v. I. Lenin -- 8
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1927Modern russian composersLeonid SabaneyeffNot recorded
1927Russian Poetry✓ — An Anthology—English
1927The Economic Theory of the Leisure Class✓FreeNikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1928American Policy Toward Russia Since 1917✓ — A Study of Diplomatic History, International Law & Public OpinionFrederick Lewis SchumanEnglish
1928An Illustrated History of the Russian RevolutionVladimir Astrov & A. (Aleksandr) SlepkovEnglish
1928History of the First International✓IU. M. SteklovEnglish
1929An Outline of Political Economy✓Free — Political Economy and Soviet EconomicsI. LapidusEnglish
1929Bill Haywood's Book✓ — The Autobiography of William D. HaywoodBig Bill HaywoodEnglish
1929Cement✓F. GladkovEnglish
1929-01-01Collected Works of Lenin: Volume IV: The Iskra Period 1900-1902 — Book I & IIVladimir Il’ich LeninNot recorded
1929From Chartism to Labourism✓ — Historical Sketches of the English Working Class Movement
Marxist Library -- No.2
F. A. RotshteinEnglish
1929Fundamental Problems of Marxism✓FreeGeorgiĭ Valentinovich PlekhanovEnglish
1929Imperialism and World Economy✓FreeNikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1929Selections from Lenin✓FreeVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1929The Bolshevik Party in Action, 1904-1914
Selections from Lenin, v. 2
Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1929The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma✓Free — With an Article by Lenin on the Work and Trial of the Bolshevik Group in the DumaAleksei Egorovich BadaevEnglish
1929The Fight for the Programme Party Organisation & Tactics, 1839-1904
Selections from Lenin, v. 1
Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1929The Iskra Period, 1900-1902✓
His Collected Works; Vol. IV
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1929The Nineteen✓FreeAleksandr Aleksandrovič FadeevEnglish
1929The Revolution of 1917✓ — From the March Revolution to the July Days
Collected Works of v. I. Lenin -- 20
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1930Brusski✓ — A Story of Peasant Life in Soviet RussiaFedor Ivanovich PanferovEnglish
1930Collected Works of V.I. Lenin✓Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1930Memories of Lenin✓FreeNadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia (Надежда Константиновна Крупская) & Eric VerneyEnglish
1930Religion✓
Little Lenin Library -- v. 7
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1930The Communist Manifesto✓FreeKarl Marx & Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1930The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels✓Karl MarxEnglish
1930The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & D. RiazanovEnglish
1930The Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union✓ — A Political InterpretationG. T. GrinkoEnglish
1931History of Russia✓ — From Earliest Times to the Rise of Commercial CapitalismM. N. PokrovskiĭEnglish, Russian
1931History of Russia, from Earliest Times to the Rise of Commercial Capitalism, by M.N. Pokrovsky✓ — Translated and Edited by J.D. Clarkson and M.R.M. GriffithsM. N. PokrovskiĭEnglish
1931History of the Working Class✓
Marxist Study Courses -- Course 2
—English
1931Marxist Study Courses✓Free — Political Economy: The Distribution of Surplus Value (Part 1)Martin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1931Marxist Study Courses. Course 1, Political Economy. Lesson 6, the Distribution of Surplus Value (Part 1)FreeMartin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1931One of the 25,000 / a. Isbach✓Aleksandr Abramovič IsbachEnglish
1931Red Villages✓ — The 5-year Plan in Soviet AgricultureIA. A. IAkovlevEnglish
1931Roar China✓ — An Episode in Nine ScenesSergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich TretʹiakovEnglish
1931Socialist Reconstruction of Moscow and Other Cities in the U.S.S.RL. M. KaganovichEnglish
1931Socialist Reconstruction of Moscow and Other Cities in the USSR✓L. M. KaganovichEnglish
1931The Land Without Unemployment✓ — Three Years of the Five Year PlanErnst GlaeserEnglish
1931The Paris Commune✓Free
Little Lenin Library -- 5
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1931The Revolution of 1905✓
Little Lenin Library -- Vol.6
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1931-01-01The Teachings of Karl Marx✓Free
Little Lenin Library -- Vol.1
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1931The Teachings of Karl Marx, by V.I. Lenin✓FreeVladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1931The War and the Second International✓Free
Little Lenin Library; Volumne Two
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1932An Eye-Witness in Manchuria✓ — How Japan Is Waging War in the Far EastWalter M. HolmesEnglish
1932Barricades in Berlin✓FreeKlaus NeukrantzEnglish
1932Gathering Storm✓ — A Story of the Black BeltDorothy Myra PageEnglish
1932Letters from Afar, by V.I. Lenin✓Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1932Manifesto of the Communist Party✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1932Marxist Study Courses✓Free — History of the Working Class: The English Industrial Revolution and ChartismMartin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1932Marxist Study Courses. Course 1, Political Economy. Lesson IX, Economic Crises. Part IIFreeMartin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1932Marxist Study Courses. Course 2, History of the Working Class. Lesson 2, the English Industrial Revolution and ChartismFreeMartin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1932Materialism & Empirio Criticism✓FreeV. LeninEnglish
1932Molly Maguires✓Anthony BimbaEnglish
1932On the Eve of October✓Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1932Socialist Planned Economy in the Soviet Union✓—English
1932Storm over the Ruhr✓Hans MarchwitzaEnglish
1932The April Conference✓
Little Lenin Library -- v. 10
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1932The English Industrial Revolution and Chartism
Marxist Study Courses, Course 2. History of the Working Class; Lesson 2
—English
1932The Ferry — Sketches of the Struggle for Socialism in the Altai MountainsMark EgartEnglish
1932The Only Way Out✓FreeEmile BurnsEnglish
1932The Soviet Worker✓ — An Account of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Status of Labor in the USSRJoseph FreemanEnglish
1932The Soviet's Fight for Disarmament✓ — Containing Speeches by M. Litvinov at Geneva, 1932, and Other Documents in Sequel to "the Soviet Union and Peace"M. M. LitvinovEnglish
1932The Threatening Catastrophe and How to Fight It, by V.I. Lenin✓Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1932Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?✓Free
Little Lenin Library -- v. 12
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1933Barricades in Berlin✓FreeKlaus NeukrantzEnglish
1933Brief History of Russia✓Grigorij Aleksandrovič MedynskijEnglish
1933Critique of the Gotha Programme✓Free
Marxist Library
Karl MarxEnglish
1933Days with Lenin✓FreeMaksim Gorky (Максим Горький)English
1933Driving Axle✓ — A Novel of Socialist Construction: Y v. IlyenkovV. IlyenkovEnglish
1933From Peasant to Collective Farmer✓Nathaniel BuchwaldEnglish
1933From Peasant to Collective Farmer, by N. Buchwald and R. BishopNathaniel BuchwaldEnglish
1933Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution✓ — With a Pref. And Appendices
Marxist Library; 13
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1933Imperialism, the Highest Stage of CapitalismFree — A Popular Outline
Little Lenin Library, 15
Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1933Labor and Steel
Labor and Industry in the United States
Horace Bancroft DavisEnglish
1933Marxist Study Courses✓Free — Political Economy: Economic Crises: Part I.Martin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1933Marxist Study Courses. Course 1, Political Economy. Lesson VIII, Economic Crises. Part IFreeMartin Lawrence PublishersEnglish
1933Memoirs of a Bolshevik✓FreeO. PiatnitskiĭEnglish
1933Murder in Camp Hohenstein✓ — And Other Stories: A Cross Current of the Hitler RegimeJohannes R. BelcherEnglish
1933On Guard for the Soviet Union✓Maksim GorkyEnglish
1933Political Economy✓Free — Capital and Surplus Value
Marxist Study Courses -- Course 1
Marxist Study CoursesEnglish
1933Political Economy. Lesson 2: Capital and Surplus ValueFreeMarxist Study CoursesEnglish
1933Political Economy. Lesson X, Imperialism (Part I)Free—English
1933Political Economy. Lesson XI, Imperialism (Part II)Free—English
1933Six Seamen✓ — Different Men Under Different SystemsMike PellEnglish
1933State and Revolution✓Free
On Cover: Little Lenin Library -- V.14
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1933Tales of Modern China✓Oskar ErdbergEnglish
1933The Civil War in France✓Free
Marxist Library
Karl MarxEnglish
1933The Class Struggle in Britain in the Epoch of Imperialism✓Ralph FoxEnglish
1933The Condition of the Working Class in Britain✓Allen Hutt & Harry PollittEnglish
1933The Fourteenth of March 1883✓ — Frederick Engels on the Death of Karl MarxFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1933-01-01The History of the American Working Class✓FreeAnthony BimbaEnglish
1933The Moscow Theatre for Children✓Lev Nikolayevich CherniavskiĭEnglish
1933The Teaching of Karl Marx
Little Lenin Library, 1
Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1933The Teachings of Karl Marx✓FreeVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1933The War for the Land in Ireland✓FreeBrian O'NeillEnglish
1933Wage-Labour and Capital✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1933White Stone✓Mikhail ChumandrinEnglish
1934A Letter to American Workers✓FreeVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934A Soviet Writer Looks at Vienna✓Ilya Erenburg (Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг)English
1934Class Against Class, 1834-1934✓ — The Tolpuddle Martyrs - And What the General Council Does Not SayAllen HuttEnglish
1934Communism Is Our Ultimate Aim✓
Political Education; Part 2
—English
1934Comrades for the Charter✓Geoffrey TreaseEnglish
1934Correspondence 1846-1895✓ — A Selection with Commentary and NotesKarl MarxEnglish
1934Correspondence, 1848-1895✓ — A Selection with Commentary and NotesKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Dona TorrEnglish
1934Dimitrov✓ — A BiographyStella D. BlagoyevaEnglish
1934Fascism and Social Revolution✓FreeRajani Palme DuttEnglish
1934Fascist War on Women✓ — Facts from Italian Gaols—English
1934Fundamental Laws of the Chinese Soviet Republic✓
Ml Cheap Edition
Béla KunEnglish
1934Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science[ Anti- Duhring]FreeFrederick EngelsEnglish
1934ICI - Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd✓ — One of the Biggest Trusts in Britain, with World RamificationsW. FoxEnglish
1934Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Correspondence 1846-1895✓ — A Selection with Commentary and NotesKarl MarxEnglish
1934Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder✓Free — An Attempt at a Popular Discussion on Marxist Strategy and Tactics
Little Lenin Library
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934Lenin✓ — Three Speeches About Lenin, One Delivered During His Lifetime, the Others Immediately After His DeathJoseph StalinEnglish
1934Lenin in Action✓ — The Early Days of the Soviet Power: Personal Reminiscences of Lenin in the Revolution of October, 1917Joseph StalinEnglish
1934-01-01Lenin on Britain✓ — A CompilationVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934Lenin on Democracy and the Trade Unions✓ — Report at the Second All-Russian Trade Union CongressVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934Letters to Dr. Kugelmann✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1934Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy✓ — With an Appendix of Other Material of Marx and Engels Relating to Dialectical MaterialismFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1934Memoirs of a Barber✓Giovanni GermanetttoEnglish
1934On the Historic Significance of the Third International✓Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934Poli Tical Education✓—English
1934Political Economy✓Free — Imperialism (Supplementary Illustrative Material)
Marxist Study Courses -- Course 1
—English
1934Political Economy. Lesson Xa, Imperialism (Supplementary Illustrative Material)Free—English
1934Political Education✓—English
1934Red China✓ — Being the Report on the Progress and Achievements of the Chinese Soviet Republic, Delivered by the President, Mao Tse-tung, at the Second Chinese National Soviet Congress, at Juikin, Kiangsi, January 22, 1934Mao ZedongEnglish
1934Selected Correspondence, 1846-1895✓Karl MarxEnglish
1934The British Labour Movement✓ — Articles from the Labour StandardFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1934The Class Struggles in France (1848-50)✓Karl MarxEnglish
1934The Communist Party✓
Political Education; Part 3
—English
1934The Days That Shook the WorldFreeReed JohnEnglish
1934The Foundation of the Third Communist International✓Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934The I.C.I.✓W. E. FoxEnglish
1934The Last Days of Tsardom✓P. M. BykovEnglish
1934The Roosevelt IllusionEmile BurnsNot recorded
1934The State✓ — A Simple Explanation of Government and the Working-ClassVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1934The Two Worlds. This Modern World. Part I, Political EducationFree—English
1934The Unsleeping Sword✓Geoffrey TreaseEnglish
1934Those Who Built Stalingrad as Told by Themselves✓—English
1934Twenty Years in Underground Russia✓ — Memoirs of a Rank-and-file BolshevikTs. S. BobrovkayaEnglish
1934William Morris✓Free — A VindicationRobert Page ArnotEnglish
19353 Speeches✓ — December, 1935Joseph StalinEnglish
1935American Writers' Congress✓American Writers' Congress (1935 New York, N.Y.)English
1935Dimitrov✓ — A BiographyStella D. BlagoevaEnglish
1935Fascism Make or Brake? German Experience Since the "June Days"✓R. BraunEnglish
1935Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science✓Free — [Anti-Duhring]Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1935Marx and the Trade Unions✓Aleksandr LozovskiiEnglish
1935Outline History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union✓FreeN. N. PopovEnglish
1935Political Education✓—English
1935Problems of Soviet Literature✓ — Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers CongressVsesoyuznyi S"ezd Sovetskikh Pisatelei (1st 1934 Moscow)English
1935Proletarian Literature in the United States✓ — An Anthology—English
1935Schools at the Cross Roads✓—English
1935Signed G. Dimitroff✓Georgi DimitrovEnglish
1935The Chief Stages in the History of the C.P.S.U.✓Free
This Modern World: Part IV Political Education
—English
1935The Iron Flood✓A. S. SerafimovichEnglish
1935The War for the Land in Ireland✓Brian O'NeillEnglish
1935Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution✓Free
Little Lenin Library -- 17
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
19361936✓James FittonEnglish
1936Britain and the Soviets✓ — The Congress of Peace and Friendship with the U.S.S.R.—English
1936Manifesto of the Communist Party✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1936Social Credit Discredited✓ — Being an Examination in Terms of Political Œconomy of the Much Advertised Nostrums of Major Douglas, Which Are Subjected to a Devastating Analysis and Found Wanting as a Solution to the Troubles of Our TimeMaurice Herbert DobbEnglish
1936Stay Down Miner✓Montagu SlaterEnglish
1936The Miner's Iwo Bob Edited✓W. H. WilliamsEnglish
1936The Miner's Two Bob✓William Henry WilliamsEnglish
1937The Scientific Study of Soviet Mineral ResourcesA. E. Fersman & C. P. (Clemens Palme) DuttEnglish
n.d.ChainsHenri BarbusseEnglish
n.d.ChapayevDmitri FurmanovEnglish
n.d.Conveyor — A NovelJames SteeleEnglish
n.d.Dialectical Materialism — The Theoretical Foundation of Marxism-LeninismV. V. AdoratskiiEnglish
n.d.Forced Labour in the United StatesWalter WilsonEnglish
n.d.I Love — A NovelA. AdeyenkoEnglish
n.d.Letters from AfarFree
Little Lenin Library -- Vol.8
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.Marxism and the National and Colonial QuestionFree — A Collection of Articles and SpeechesJoseph StalinEnglish
n.d.Maxim Gorky — Writer and RevolutionistMoissaye J. OlginEnglish
n.d.Memoirs of a BolshevikFreeO. PiatnitskyEnglish
n.d.Memoirs of a RevolutionistVera FignerEnglish
n.d.Our Lenin—English
n.d.Red Villages — The 5-year Plan in Soviet AgricultureY. A. YakovlevEnglish
n.d.Short Stories from China—English
n.d.Socialism and WarFree
Little Lenin Library -- Vol. 3
G. Zinov'evEnglish
n.d.Socialism Victorious—English
n.d.Soviet ProsperityV. M. MolotovEnglish
n.d.Speeches of V.I. Lenin — With a Critical IntroductionVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist DumaFreeA. BadayevEnglish
n.d.The Housing QuestionFreeFriedrich EngelsEnglish
n.d.The Imperialist War — The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism 1914-1915
Collected Works of v. I. Lenin -- 18
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.The Life and Death of Sacco and VanzettiFreeEugene LyonsEnglish
n.d.The National Policy of the Soviet UnionA. RysakoffEnglish
n.d.The October Revolution — A Collection of Articles and SpeechesJoseph StalinEnglish
n.d.The Poverty of PhilosophyFreeKarl MarxEnglish
n.d.The Red Corner Book for Children—English
n.d.The Soviet Union and Peace — The Most Important of the Documents Issued by the Government of the U.S.S.R. Concerning Peace and Disarmament from 1917 to 1929—English
n.d.The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our RevolutionFree
Little Lenin Library -- Vol.9
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.The Threatening Catastrophe and How to Fight It
Little Lenin Library -- 11
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.Toward the Seizure of Power — The Revolution of 1917: From the July Days to the October Revolution
Collected Works of v. I. Lenin -- 21
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
n.d.What Is to Done? — Burning Questions of Our Movement
Little Lenin Library -- No. 4
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish