Author: David A. ShannonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911860054
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Decline of American Communism
Author: David A. ShannonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911860054
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Decline of American Communism
Author: David A. ShannonAmerican Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957
Author: Joseph Robert StarobinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027961
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Decline of American Communism
Author: David A. ShannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of American Communism
Author: Philip Jacob JaffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Romance of American Communism
Author: Vivian GornickPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178873551X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
“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.
The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929
Author: Jacob ZumoffPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004268898
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
The Cause That Failed : Communism in American Political Life
Author: Amherst (Emeritus) Guenter Lewy Professor of Political Science University of MassachusettsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199874298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of glasnost. He traces its origins and development, underscoring how its devotion to Moscow and inflexible Marxist ideology isolated it from the American scene--in fact, most of its first members were Eastern European immigrants. During the left wing tide of the Depression the Communist Party reached the peak of its influence, as it joined labor unions and progressive organizations in a "Popular Front." But Lewy reveals the deceptive, antidemocratic, self-defeating tactics the Communists pursued even then, as they manipulated front organizations, seized control of political parties, peace groups, and labor unions, and enforced political conformity among members and sympathizers. He follows the Party through its inexorable decline in the succeeding decades, up to its current position as one of the last Stalinist parties left in a world of glasnost and perestroika. Lewy also provides a sharply critical discussion of the encounter between Communism and liberal and mainstream America. He examines such groups as the ACLU and SANE, arguing that the years when these organizations were tolerant toward Communists were also the times when they neglected their original purpose in favor of partisan causes. He shows how Communists have manipulated well-meaning citizens in the peace movement and in Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign. One of the great ills Americans suffer, he writes, is an overreaction to McCarthyism--an atmosphere of anti-anticommunism--which blinds them to the wrongs wrought by international Communism and makes them ignore the deceptive role played by the American Communist Party, which even today still keeps eighty percent of its membership secret. The Cause that Failed presents an intensively researched and trenchantly argued historical analysis of Communism in America. Guenter Lewy's provocative account provides a new understanding of Communism's machinations in U.S. politics, and how Americans from across the political spectrum have responded to its challenge.
The Decline of American Capitalism
Author: Lewis CoreyPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: 9781616407629
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Originally published in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression, Corey's The Decline of American Capitalism is an in-depth critique of the American government. The "Fall in the Rate of Profit," unemployment, and class disparities are a basis for a "New American Revolution," a shift from the current capitalist Democracy toward a new Socialist America. LEWIS COREY (1892-1953), originally Louis Fraina, was an Italian-born left-wing American political writer and activist. He worked and wrote for socialist newspapers on and off, becoming more and more radical as he was influenced by international communist leaders. He became the chairman for the Founding Convention of the Communist Party of America in 1919, traveling and working for the Communist Party until a disagreement with Communist International in 1921 forced him underground for a time. He emerged as Lewis Corey in 1926 as a liberal journalist, supporting the Communist, Marxist, and Democratic movements, respectively. In December of 1950, federal prosecutors attempted to deport him for illegal entry into the United States and for communism, but he died before the proceedings were completed.
Earl Browder
Author: James Gilbert RyanPublisher: Spie Proceedings Series
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In writing this book, James Ryan investigated recently opened annals in the Soviet Archives. These records included a collection of American Communist party files covering the period of 1919 to 1944, which were secretly shipped to Moscow and until 1992 only rumored to have existed. Ryan also consulted the Browder Papers at Syracuse University and U.S. government documents, particularly FBI files.