Hands Off Russia
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The Hands Off Russia campaign was an international political initiative first launched by British Socialists in 1919 to organise opposition to the British intervention on the side of the White armies
Alfred Comrie's copy of Hands Off Russia by William Paul, 1919
Ramsay MacDonald
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James Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party: a minority Labo
Hands Off Russia
…subsequent Polish victory in the battle of Warsaw on 16 August rendered the issue moot by making an intervention to save Poland unnecessary. In 1924, Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and in light of this the committee was renamed as the Anglo-Russian…
MacDonald in 1923
Bloody Sunday
Macdonald (third from left) in 1906, with other leading figures in the party
Ramsay MacDonald by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1911