The Secret World of American Communism
Title | The Secret World of American Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Klehr |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0300137834 |
The hidden world of American communism can now be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. Interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Part of the the United States of America (CPUSA), providing proof that it was involved in espionage and other subversive activitives. 16 illustrations.
American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957
Title | American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957 PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Robert Starobin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1975-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780520027961 |
The Romance of American Communism
Title | The Romance of American Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Gornick |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 178873551X |
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.
Communism in America
Title | Communism in America PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Fried |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231102353 |
And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--
Red Chicago
Title | Red Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Randi Storch |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN | 0252032063 |
Realities of the street-level American Communist experience during the worst years of the Depression "Red Chicago" is a social history of American Communism set within the context of Chicago's neighborhoods, industries, and radical traditions. Using local party records, oral histories, union records, party newspapers, and government documents, Randi Storch fills the gap between Leninist principles and the day-to-day activities of Chicago's rank-and-file Communists. Uncovering rich new evidence from Moscow's former party archive, Storch argues that although the American Communist Party was an international organization strongly influenced by the Soviet Union, at the city level it was a more vibrant and flexible organization responsible to local needs and concerns. Thus, while working for a better welfare system, fairer unions, and racial equality, Chicago's Communists created a movement that at times departed from international party leaders' intentions. By focusing on the experience of Chicago's Communists, who included a large working-class, African American, and ethnic population, this study reexamines party members' actions as an integral part of the communities in which they lived and the industries where they worked. "A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz"
The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929
Title | The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929 PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Zumoff |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2014-08-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004268898 |
Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to “Americanise”. Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.
Masters of Deceit
Title | Masters of Deceit PDF eBook |
Author | John Edgar Hoover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2011-05 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN | 9784871873376 |
Masters of Deceit is the product of J. Edgar Hoover's almost obsessive fear of Communism.Although Communism may seem to be almost an anachronism from a time gone by, it was a powerful force in the 1930s and the 1940s. By the mid-1950s, when this book was written, membership of Communist Party USA had slipped from its 1944 peak of around 80,000. However, Hoover continued to devote substantial FBI governmental resources to investigating the Communist Party USA, while ignoring the more serious problems of the Mafia and Organized Crime.