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The cause that failed : communism in American political life /
From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1: History of an encounter
- Early years: isolation and internal strife
- Progressives, socialists, and the united front
- The theory and practice of front organizations
- The "red decade"
- World War II: demise and rebirth of the popular front
- Liberal anticommunism during the Cold War era
- The revival of anti-anticommunism
- 2: Organizational response: cooperation with, acceptance or exclusion of Communists
- The American civil liberties union through changing times
- The peace movement: the difficulty of learning from experience
- The travail of progressivism
- The committee of a sane nuclear policy: from center to left
- The nonexclusionary policy triumphant: SDS and the movement against the Vietnam War
- 3: American Communism today
- The old left-new left Nexus
- Retrospect and outlook.