The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929

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ID19947888
AuthorsJacob A Zumoff (0000-0001-6270-8969, corresponding author), Jacob Zumoff
Year2014
Pages456
Publication date2014-08-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCommunist International and Us Communism, 1919-1929 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004268890
OpenAlexW650765184
Open LibraryOL29709188M
ISBN9789004268890
LanguageEN
Citations received23

Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the "American" and "international" aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to "Americanise". Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism

Communism · Economic history · Opposition (politics) · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Soviet union · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Communist International · Communist party of the united states of america · Communist Party USA · Internationale gnd (uri) https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn=041311574 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/DNB|041311574 · Internationale. gnd

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