The Golden Notebook
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Free Women: 1 The Notebooks: 1 Free Women: 2 The Notebooks: 2 Free Women: 3 The Notebooks: 3 Free Women: 4 The Notebooks: 4 The Golden Notebook Free Women: 5
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All Themes Fragmentation, Breakdown, and Unity Gender, Labor, and Power Love and Sex Communism and Disillusionment Action, Freedom, and Moral Courage Fact, Fiction, and Authorship
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All Characters Anna Wulf Janet Wulf Molly Jacobs Tommy Richard Portmain Marion Mrs Marks / Mother Sugar Willi Rodde Paul Blackenhurst Jimmy McGrath Ted Brown Maryrose George Hounslow Michael Saul Green Nelson Ella Julia Max Wulf George Dr West Patricia Brent Paul Tanner Ella’s Father Robert Brun Cy Maitland Jack Ivor Ronnie James Schafter De Silva Tom Mathlong Charlie Themba Mrs Boothby Jackson / The Cook Marie Comrade John Butte Stanley Lett
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All Terms Ceylon Nyasaland Veld Kopje McCarthyism The Rosenbergs Joseph Stalin National Service Conscientious Objector Quemoy The Kremlin Leucotomy Trotskyism Chekhov’s “The Darling” Soho F.L.N.
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The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing
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Trotskyism Term Analysis

A strain of Marxism started by the Soviet leader and dissident Leon Trotsky, who was explicitly and vehemently critical of Joseph Stalin.
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