WRITER

Tony Cliff

1917 - 2000

Photo of Tony Cliff

Icon of person Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, Hebrew: יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A founding member of the Socialist Review Group, which became the International Socialists and then the Socialist Workers Party, in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Cliff has received more than 221,341 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Tony Cliff is the 4,986th most popular writer (down from 4,871st in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Israel (down from 256th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rosa Luxemburg
Biography, Communism, History
1959
State capitalism in Russia
Communism, Economic conditions
1974
The Labour Party
History, Labour Party (Great Britain), Politics and government
1988
Trotsky
Biography, Politics and government, Revolutionaries
1900
Selected Writings
2003
All power to the Soviets
Biography, Heads of state, Revolutionists
1985

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tony Cliff ranks 4,986 out of 7,302. Before him are Hellmuth Karasek, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Károly Kisfaludy, Platon Oyunsky, Fernando Vallejo, and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. After him are Kenneth Copeland, Bernard Clavel, Johann Gottfried Seume, Rosa Chacel, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Peter F. Hamilton.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Tony Cliff ranks 255. Before him are Edgar Barth, Phyllis Diller, William P. Gottlieb, Durward Knowles, Gösta Andersson, and Kenkichi Iwasawa. After him are Richard Boone, Pavel Solovyov, Luigi Cantone, Freddie Francis, Nils Karlsson, and Larry O'Brien. Among people deceased in 2000, Tony Cliff ranks 223. Before him are Hélène Prévost, Vicente Asensi, Viktor Kolotov, Laila Kinnunen, Kirsty MacColl, and Vincentas Sladkevičius. After him are Spyridon Chazapis, Georgiy Gongadze, Corneliu Mănescu, Adelaida Avagyan, Tofig Guliyev, and Egon Jönsson.

Others Born in 1917

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2000

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Tony Cliff ranks 283 out of 466. Before him are Mili Avital (1972), Ronit Elkabetz (1964), Saharon Shelah (1945), Yasmin Levy (1975), Avraham Burg (1955), and Benny Hinn (1952). After him are Ora Namir (1930), Yardena Arazi (1951), Eli Cohen (1972), Menachem Bello (1947), Shlomo Artzi (1949), and Uri Ariel (1952).

Others born in Israel

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Tony Cliff ranks 17. Before him are Meir Shalev (1948), Gideon Levy (1953), Etgar Keret (1967), Emile Habibi (1922), Amira Hass (1956), and Zeruya Shalev (1959). After him are Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Leigh Bardugo (1975), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936), Yehoshua Kenaz (1937), Rami Saari (1963), and Nadav Lapid (1975).

Israeli born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous