Heyday Amern Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heyday Amern Communism write by Harvey Klehr. This book was released on 1984-03-06. Heyday Amern Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Secret World of American Communism
The Secret World of American Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret World of American Communism write by Harvey Klehr. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Secret World of American Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Red Chicago
Red Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Chicago write by Randi Storch. This book was released on 2007. Red Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Romance of American Communism
The Romance of American Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romance of American Communism write by Vivian Gornick. This book was released on 2020-04-07. The Romance of American Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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 American Communist Movement
The American Communist Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Communist Movement write by Harvey Klehr. This book was released on 1992. The American Communist Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself, Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes trace the turbulent history of American communism as both political party and social movement. Drawing on a wealth of research, they follow the party's fortunes from its origin in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, through its heyday during the Depression years, to the gradual decline in the post-World War II era. The authors examine the effect of the party's ideas on groups more in the mainstream of American politics, as well as the influence of communist "popular front" culture on American culture in general. While duly acknowledging the idealism of many American communists, the authors also take a clear-eyed look at the disturbing aspects of the American communist movement: its subservience to Moscow, its penchant for conspiratorial machinations, its bitter internal disputes and purges, its always latent and sometimes virulent totalitarianism.
