1st Edition
A Better World Stalinism and the American Intellectuals
By William L. O'Neill
Copyright 1989
456 Pages
by
Routledge
454 Pages
by
Routledge
454 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book chronicles the struggle among non-Communist leftists and liberals over American relations with the Soviet Union from 1939 through the 1950s. Few now care as passionately and as violently as people did then about Soviet-American relations. It was a time when friends became enemies, and others forged strange alliances, all in the name of commitments that today seem remote. A Better World... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I In Shock: August 24, 1939-June 22, 1941 -- II The “People’s War” Begins: 1941-1943 -- III The Revival of Anti-Stalinism -- IV The “People’s War” Falters: 1943-1945 -- V In the Postwar -- VI The Rise and Fall of Henry Wallace -- VII The Eclipse of Progressivism -- VIII The Blacklist -- IX China: Progressive Paradox -- X The Question of Liberal Guilt -- XI The Academy and the Crisis of Liberalism -- XII Rewriting the Past -- XIII Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.
Biography
William L. O’Neill is professor of history at Rutgers University. and the author of numerous books in recent American history.
