BOOK REVIEW 73 experience equipped the international proletariat with organisational forms and standards of leadership that found further development in the practice of the international working-class movement" (p. 617). This volume ends by referring to "some results of the working class suruggle". There is absolutely no doubt that by planning a seven-volume History of the International Working Class Movement, the USSR Academy of Sciences has undertaken a much-desired but very complex task and this first volume, despite certain lacunae, exhibits high scholarship and methodological depth; one naturally expects that the subsequent volumes will be fascinating and scholarly. SUKOMAL SEN* 1 Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value, Part III, Moscow, 1975, p 434. 2 Sukomal Sen, Working Class of India—History of Emergence and Movement 1830-1970, pp 27-28. 3 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol I, p 104. 4 Karl Marx-Fredrick Engels. Collected Works, Vol 4, p 503. 5 Ibid, Vol 6, p 492. 6 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol I, p 429. 7 Lenin, Collected Works, Vol I, p 185. 8 Ibid, Vol 19. p 23. *Has written extensively on the history of the working class in India, and is the author of the book Working Class of India—History of Emergence and Movement 1830-1970.