The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929
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The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929
(Historical materialism book series, vol. 82)
Brill, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-410) and index
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Description
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, however, the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinistation of the Soviet Union, intervened into the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: History and Historiography of American Communism in the 1920s
1: The Formation of the Communist Party, 1912-21
2: The Fight for Legality
3: Communists and the Labour Movement
4: William Z. Foster and the Turn towards the Labour Movement
5: The Farmer-Labor Party
6: The La Follette Fiasco, 1923-24
7: The Double-Edged Sword of 'Bolshevisation', 1924-26
8: The Foreign-Language Federations and 'Bolshevisation'
9: Factionalism and Mass Work, 1925-27
10: The death of Ruthenberg and the Ascension of Lovestone, 1926-27
11: Lovestone between Bukharin and Stalin, 1927-28
12: The 'Third Period', the Sixth Congress and the Elimination of Opposition, 1928-29
13: Lovestone becomes a Lovestoneite, 1928-1929
14: The 'Negro Question' to the Fourth Comintern Congress
15: The 'Negro Question' from the Fourth to the Sixth Congress
16: The Sixth Congress and the 'Negro Question'
17: 'Self-Determination' and Comintern Intervention
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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