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The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929 /

This book examines the development of the Communist Party in the United States in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. It argues that the Communist International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to ""Americanise"". By the late 1920s,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zumoff, Jacob A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, [2014]
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 82.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: History and Historiography of American Communism in the 1920s; Chapter 1 The Formation of the Communist Party, 1912-21; Chapter 2 The Fight for Legality; Chapter 3 Communists and the Labour Movement; Chapter 4 William Z. Foster and the Turn Towards the Labour Movement; Chapter 5 The Farmer-Labor Party; Chapter 6 The La Follette Fiasco, 1923-4; Chapter 7 The Double-Edged Sword of 'Bolshevisation', 1924-6; Chapter 8 The Foreign-Language Federations and 'Bolshevisation'; Chapter 9 Factionalism and Mass Work, 1925-7.
  • Chapter 10 The Death of Ruthenberg and the Ascension of Lovestone, 1926-7Chapter 11 Lovestone Between Bukharin and Stalin, 1927-8; Chapter 12 The 'Third Period', the Sixth Congress and the Elimination of Opposition, 1928-9; Chapter 13 Lovestone Becomes a Lovestoneite, 1928-9; Chapter 14 The 'Negro Question' to the Fourth Comintern Congress; Chapter 15 The 'Negro Question' from the Fourth to the Sixth Congress; Chapter 16 The Sixth Congress and the 'Negro Question'; Chapter 17 'Self-Determination' and Comintern Intervention; Conclusion; Bibliography and Works Cited; Index.