Bangladesher Komiunist Party Collection
Period
1974-1987, 1989, 1991
Total size
0.36 m.
Consultation
Not restricted
History
Has its origins in the 1920s when the Communist Party of India (CPI) had its adherents in the whole of the former British India; after the Partition in 1947 a seperate East Pakistan Communist Party (EPCP) was founded; within the party a pro-Soviet Union and a Maoist tendency emerged; the adherents of a pro-Soviet policy predominated; in 1972 the party was renamed Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB).
Content
Collection of Shakhawat Hossain consisting of photocopies of minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the CPB; policy notes; reports; circulars; some correspondence and other documents relating to districts and branches; documents of the front organzation Gono Oikko Jot (People's United Front) and documents concerning the National Awami League, the Bangladesh Krishok Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL; Bangladesh Peasant and Workers Awami League) and the Jatiyo Sramik League (National Workers' League).
Processing information
List made in 1999