1st Edition

American Communism and Soviet Russia

Edited By Theodore Draper Copyright 2004
626 Pages
by Routledge

626 Pages
by Routledge

596 Pages
by Routledge

This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to completion what the author describes as the essence of the relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the first decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. The outpouring of new archive materials makes it plain that Draper's premise is direct and to the point: The communist movement "was transformed from a new expression... Read more
1: The New Day; 2: The Farmer-Labor United Front; 3: Roads to Chicago; 4: The Parting of the Ways; 5: The LaFollette Fiasco; 6: How to Win a Majority; 7: Bolshevization; 8: Party Life; 9: Politics and Trade-Unionism; 10: Ruthenberg's Last Wish; 11: Lovestone in Power; 12: American Exceptionalism; 13: The Turning Point; 14: The Sixth World Congress; 15: The Negro Question; 16: The Birth of American Trotskyism; 17: The Runaway Convention; 18: How to Lose a Majority; Afterword

Biography

Theodore Draper