Zelda Kahan
{{Short description|British communist (1886–1969)}}
Zelda Kahan (1886 – 1969) was a British communist.
Born into a Jewish family in Russia in 1886, Kahan's family were forced to emigrate, and she moved to Britain at an early age.Henry Pelling, The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile The Kahans lived at 6 Clapton Square in Hackney, London. She became an active socialist and joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). Within the SDF, she was a leading opponent of Ernest Belfort Bax's anti-feminism, and an ardent anti-militarist. After a resolution she proposed to the conference of the SDF's successor, the British Socialist Party, was approved against the wishes of the party leadership, she was elected to its executive. She worked alongside Theodore Rothstein in opposition to World War I, and supported the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).Karen Hunt, Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question 1884-1911
Kahan married fellow communist William Peyton Coates (died 8 Aug 1963), and became known as Zelda Coates. Together, they set up the Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee.Andrew J. Williams, Labour and Russia: The Attitude of the Labour Party to the USSR, 1924-1934
The Coates lived at 37 Coolhurst Road, Hornsey, London N8 in later days.
Works
- (1918) [https://archive.org/details/KarlMarxHisLifeAndTeachingInCommemorationOfTheMarxCentenary Karl Marx: His Life and Teaching] London: British Socialist Party
- (1920) The life and work of Friedrich Engels London: The Communist Party of Great Britain
- (1968) "Memories of Lenin in London, 1902-3 and 1907", Labour Monthly, November 1968, pp 506–508
Co written with W. P Coates:
- (1935) [https://archive.org/details/ArmedInterventionRussia Armed Intervention in Russia 1918-1922] London: V. Gollancz
- (1938) [https://archive.org/details/tsardomtostalinconstitution From Tsardom to the Stalin Constitution] London:G. Allen and Unwin
- (1939) [https://archive.org/details/worldaffairsussr World Affairs and the U. S. S. R.] London : Lawrence and Wishart
- (1940) [https://archive.org/details/RussiaFinlandBalticsCoates Russia, Finland and the Baltic] London : Lawrence and Wishart
- (1940) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284501 The Soviet-Finnish Campaign: Military & Political, 1939-1940]
- (1942) Why Russia Will Win London : Eldon Press
- (1943) A History of Anglo-Soviet Relations ([https://archive.org/details/historyanglosovietrelations1 Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/historyanglosovietrelations2 Volume II] London: Lawrence and Wishart
- (1951) [https://archive.org/details/SovietsInCentralAsiaCoates Soviets in Central Asia] London: Lawrence and Wishart
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