Title The Soviet world of American communism / Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 378 pages) : illustrations Series Annals of communism Annals of Communism. Contents List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Documents; Glossary of Individuals and Organizations; Chronology of American Communism; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Orders from the Comintern; In the Beginning: The 1920s; The Consolidation of the American Communist Party; The Comintern Sets American Party Policy; Comintern Intervention in American Party Meetings; Communism in Its Heyday: The 1930s; The 1936 Presidential Campaign; The Comintern and the Leadership of the CPUSA; The CPUSA in the Labor Movement; The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Its Aftermath The Nazi-Soviet PactThe "Just War of Defense"; The Downfall of Earl Browder; CHAPTER TWO Moscow Gold; Designated Funds; Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities; Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies; The Significance of the Moscow Gold; CHAPTER THREE Communists Abroad; Comintern "Reps"; The Plenipotentiaries; Other Functionaries; The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative; The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations; Americans Stationed in Moscow; John Reed, Louis Fraina, and Nicholas Hourwich; Responsibilities of the CPUSA Representative American Communists in the "Great Land of Socialism"The Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman; Karelian Fever and the Purge of the North American Finns; Thomas Sgovio: An American in the Great Terror; American Emissaries during World War II; Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election; CHAPTER FOUR Imported Hatred; Early Training in Ideological Conformity; The Soviet Union and the Splintering of the American Left; The Comintern Proclaims "Social Fascism" to Be the New Enemy; The Madison Square Garden Riot; The Moscow Trials and the Great Terror; Earl Browder Declares War on Trotskyists The Trotsky-Zinoviev Trial of 1936The Lovestoneite Deviation; Pressure for Even Greater Press Fervor; Comintern Education in Ideological Sensitivity; Tools of Discipline; Expulsion; Dealing with Deviationists: Scott Nearing and Edgar Snow; CHAPTER FIVE Fellowcountrymen; Appendix American and Soviet Cominternists; Comintern Representatives Serving in the United States; American Communist Party Representatives to the Communist International Who Were Stationed in Moscow; American Communists Serving in the Comintern in Minor Positions or Sent on Comintern Missions to Other Countries Americans Holding Positions in the Communist International's Highest Bodies"American" Signers of the "Call for the Formation of the Communist International"; Selected Readings; Index Summary The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political, and historical importance. Based on documents newly available from Russian archives, The Soviet World of American Communism conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. In a meticulous investigation of the personal, organizational, and financial links between the CPUSA and Soviet Communists, the authors find that Moscow maintained extensive control of the CPUSA, even of the American rank and file. The widely accepted view that the CPUSA was essentially an idealistic organization devoted to the pursuit of social justice must be radically revised, say the authors. Although individuals within the organization may not have been aware of Moscow's influence, the leaders of the organization most definitely were. The authors explain and annotate ninety-five documents, reproduced here in their entirety or in large part, and they "e from hundreds of others to reveal the actual workings of the American Communist party. They show that:" the USSR covertly provided a large part of the CPUSA budget from the early 1920's to the end of the 1980's;" Moscow issued orders, which the CPUSA obeyed, on issues ranging from what political decisions the American party should make to who should serve in the party leadership;" the CPUSA endorsed Stalin's purges and the persecution of Americans living in Russia Notes "Prepared with the active support of the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Document of Recent History (RTsKhlDNI)"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Communist Party of the United States of America -- History -- Sources Communist International -- History -- Sources SUBJECT Communist International fast Communist Party of the United States of America fast Communist Party USA gnd Internationale (04) -- Histoire -- Sources. ram Communist party of the United States of America -- Histoire -- Sources. ram Subject Communism -- United States -- History -- Sources Communism -- History -- Sources POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Communism Beeinflussung CPUSA. Komintern. Communisme -- Etas-Unis -- Histoire -- Sources. Communisme -- Histoire -- Sources. Communisme -- Etats-Unis -- Histoire -- Sources. United States Sowjetunion Genre/Form History Sources Bronnen (vorm) Form Electronic book Author Haynes, John Earl. Anderson, K. M. (Kirill Mikhaĭlovich) Rossiĭskiĭ t︠s︡entr khranenii︠a︡ i izuchenii︠a︡ dokumentov noveĭsheĭ istorii. LC no. 97018123 ISBN 0585351880 9780585351889 9780300138009 0300138008 9786611735418 6611735410 1281735418 9781281735416

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