J. D. (John David) Blake - papers, 1937-1990

MLMSS 5971

fonds

1937 - 1990

Textual Records, Clippings

73086

3 boxes - 0.54 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (computer printouts)
Textual Records - (photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Textual Records - (printed, photocopy)

J. D. (Jack) Blake was born Alfred Airey in England in 1909. He arrived in Australia in 1922 and joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1925. From 1931 to 1933 he studied at the Lenin School, Moscow. He changed his name by deed poll at Melbourne in 1934, the same year he married CPA Victorian State Committee member, Audrey Elsie Boyd. Blake was Victorian State Secretary from 1933 to 1949. A Central Committee member from 1935, Blake was on the National Secretariat from 1951 to 1954. He held the first research appointment by the Socialist Research Fund, established to assist theoretical inquiry and research into problems of concern to all Socialists in Australia. In 1971 Blake published Revolution From Within - A Contemporary Theory of Social Change.

1981-1990; 'Alienation' Includes correspondence with Pravda, Moscow; newscuttings; and reprints of articles and pamphlet: War What For ? (Melb., 1949) by J. D. Blake (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/1)
Date unknown; 'Artyem [Fyodor Andreivich Sergeiev]' Includes English translation by J. D. Blake of article on Artyem (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/2)
1937, 1953-1954, 1987; 'ASIO Material on the Blakes', being letter received from Laurie Aarons, 5 May 1987, concerning enclosed photocopied ASIO files on J. D. Blake, Audrey Blake and Thomas Claudius Steele McGillick at Petrov Commission (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/3)
1984, date unknown; 'The A.L.P. [Australian Labor Party]' Notes, with issue of Marxism Today, Mar. 1984 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/4)
Date unknown; 'Australian Labour [sic] Party' Notes and drafts of article: 'Theories of the Australian Labor Party' by J. D. Blake (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/5)
1968, date unknown; 'Bureaucracy', being notes (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/6)
1960s, date unknown; 'Class, Power and Change', being notes, and report by Eric Aarons to Communist Party of Australia meeting on intellectuals, Aug. 1966 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/7)
1948-1967; 'CPA Educational Material from the early 50s' (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/8)
1950s-1980s; 'CPA History - & Other CPs' Includes newscuttings, notes and drafts of articles and talks by J. D. Blake (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/9)
1950s-1980s; 'Consolidation etc. to 1967-8', being mainly notes, newscuttings, drafts and printed articles/statements (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/10)
1958-1987; Correspondence mainly with Laurie Aarons, Audrey Blake, L.G. Churchward, Michael Easson, Robin Gollan, Richard Haese, John Herouvim, Ted Hill, Amirah Inglis, Jacques Leclerc, Frederick Rose, John Sendy, Geoff Sharp and Fred Wells (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/11)
1958-1987; Correspondence mainly with Laurie Aarons, L.G. Churchward, Rodney Gouttman, Richard Haese, John Hinkson, Heleln G. Palmer, Geoff Sharp, Bertha Walker and Sid Wright (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/12)
1980-1987; Correspondence mainly with L.G. Churchward and Ralph Gibson (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/1/13)
1985-1989; 'Creative Work' Includes correspondence with David Carter, Walter Clayton, Joan Finger, Malcolm Saunders, Bernard Smith and Bernie Taft; and notes, (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/1)
1965-1967, 1978, 1982; 'Democracy' Notes, newscuttings and photocopies (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/2)
1945-1987; 'Economics' Notes, articles, newscuttings and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/3)
1972; 'Fascism', being newscutting of book reviews from The New York Review, 19 Oct. 1972 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/4)
1963-1968, 1986; 'Intellectuals. Arena Position. Commission Etc '1963'' Includes notes and drafts of articles (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/5)
1986-1987; 'The Jewish Question' Includes copy of letter to Rodney Gouttman, notes and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/6)
1960s-1990; 'Journals and Newspaper Materials on ideology - culture - politics' Includes drafts of talks and articles, with reprint of ' Soviet Union Takes Road to Humane Socialism', by J. D. Blake (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/7)
1945, 1961-1965, 1978, 1983-1985; 'Krushchov [sic]', being newscuttings concerning Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschev; notes concerning Russia; proof copy of article, 'The USSR and the Socialist Cause' by J. D. Blake (1987); and issue of FOS, No.2 Apr. 1945, published by Friends of Services Clubs of the Eureka Youth League (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/8)
1950s-1960s; 'Labour Party - Communist Party' Notes and drafts (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/9)
1951; 'Menzies Govt & W[orking] Class' Notes on legislation introduced by Menzies Government to amend the Arbitration Act (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/10)
1962-1963, 1980s-1990; 'Monopoly' Includes notes and articles by J. D. Blake on Patrick White for Overland, No.25 Summer 1962-1963; 'Stalinism or Independence ?' in Australian Left Review, No.76 June 1981, concerning the Consolidation Statement of the CPA, 1954; review of Getting Russia Wrong - The End of Kremlinology (Verso, Allen & Unwin, 1989) in The Hummer, No. 29 Aug.-Sep. 1990 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/11)
1960s-1980s;
Notes and newscuttings on various political and literary topics, with proof article, 'The Politics of War' by J. D. Blake for Arena (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/2/12)
1959-1986; 'Material on Peace', being mainly printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/1)
1987; 'Peace - SDI [Strategic Defence Initiative], being special supplement to New Times (Moscow) (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/2)
1979-1987; 'Perestroika' Notes, newscuttings and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/3)
1948, 1968; 'Religion' Notes and newscuttings (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/4)
1960s; 'Revolution' Notes and newscuttings (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/5)
1942; Scrapbook of newscuttings mainly concerning Russia (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/6)
Date unknown; 'Science, Poetry' Notes (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/7)
1945, date unknown; 'Songs' in Russian and English, with souvenir booklet, 25th Anniversary of the Australian Communist Party (1945) (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/8)
Date unknown, 1988; 'Soviet Democracy' Notes and newscuttings (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/9)
1968, 1985; 'Soviet Economics' Newscutting and copy of address, 'Soviet Economics and the World Economy' by Associate Professor Ted Wheelwright, University of Sydney, to the Australia-USSR Society, 10 November 1985 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/10)
1960s-1986; 'Stalinism' Notes, newscutings and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/11)
1960s; 'Statistics' Notes (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/12)
1968, 1970; 'Structuralism' Newscuttings from The Times Literary Supplement (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/13)
1975-1980; 'T.L.S.' Newscuttings mainly from The Times Literary Supplement (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/14)
1965, 1970, 1986, date unknown; 'Trade Union Material' Notes and newscuttings (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/15)
1965; 'Translations', being English translation by J. D. Blake of the article, 'Paths to Cognition of Truth: Thoughts on the Fotunes of Natural Science' by B. Kedrev in Novy Mir, No.1 1965 (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/16)
Date unknown; 'Youth', being draft of article/chapter ? (Call No.: ML MSS 5971/3/17)

Alphabetical

English, Russian