1st Edition
The Communist Experience in America A Political and Social History
By Harvey Klehr
Copyright 2010
316 Pages
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Routledge
294 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the relative weakness of American radicalism have engaged historians, sociologists, and political scientists for decades. Influential concepts such as "frontier theory" have been linked with the absence of class conflict in America. Other analysts have... Read more
Preface Introduction Part 1: American Exceptionalism 1. Marxist Theory in Search of America 2. Leninist Theory in Search of America 3. Leninism and Lovestonism 4. Leninism, Lewis Corey, and the Failure of American Socialism Part 2: American Communism and Its Splinters 5. Immigrant Leadership in the Communist Party United States of America 6. American Communism and the UAW: New Evidence on an Old Controversy 7. Self-Determination in the Black Belt: Origins of a Communist Policy 8. Moscow Gold: Confirmed at Last? 9. Letter to the Editor: Follow-Up on Moscow Gold 10. Communists and the CIO – From the Soviet Archives 11. The End 12. The CPUSA and the Committees of Correspondence 13. Comrades in the Takeover Wars 14. The Case of the Legless Veteran Part 3: Revisionism/Traditionalism Debate 15. A Vigil against Totalitarianism 16. Seeing Red Seeing Red 17. Fellow Traveling is Alive and Well: The Rosenbergs' New Apologist 18. On the Waterfront without a Clue 19. Radical History 20. The Myth of Premature Antifascism 21. Historiography of American Communism: An Unsettled Field 22. Professors of Denial 23. Reflections of a Traditionalist Historian 24. Reflections on Anti-Anti-Communism Part 4: Espionage/Scholarship on Venona Documents 25. The Strange Case of Roosevelt's Secret Agent 26. Spy Stories 27. Reflections on Espionage Index
Biography
Harvey Klehr
