When the Old Left Was Young : Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941.

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The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement arose from a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Student movements > United States > History > 20th century.
College students > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > History.
Mouvements étudiants > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Étudiants > Activité politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Crises économiques > 1929 > États-Unis > Histoire.
College students > Political activity
Depressions
Student movements
United States
Students.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano; 2. Cafeteria Commies; 3. Springtime of Revolt; 4. The Making of a Mass Movement; 5. Spies, Suppression, and Free Speech on Campus; 6. The Popular Front on Campus; 7. Beyond the New Deal? Egalitarian Dreams and Communist Schemes; 8. Activist Impulses; 9. From Popular Front to Unpopular Sect; Appendix. The FBI Goes to College; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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