American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957 / / Joseph R. Starobin.
In 1943 the American Communist Party was a large, politically influential, broadly based movement. In 1957 it was a small, weak, and isolated political sect. The Party's decline in the intervening Cold War years is the subject of this book-an analysis of a major radical movement that touched mi...
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Starobin, Joseph R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957 / Joseph R. Starobin. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1972 1 online resource (331 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I. THE BACKGROUND -- I. THE HARD LOOK BACKWARD OVER THE DIFFICULT DECADE -- II. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: THE THIRTIES TO THE WAR -- PART II. FROM WAR TO THE AMBIGUITIES OF PEACE -- 3. TWO LEADERS FACE THE UNKNOWN -- 4. SANCTION FROM DIMITROV AND DOOM BY DUCLOS -- 5. THE PARTY RESTORED -- 6. QUESTIONS IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS, 1946–47 -- PART III. WHEN A MOVEMENT HAS LOST ITS WAY -- 7. DUBIOUS BATTLES AND CRUCIAL DECISIONS, 1947–48 -- 8. INCOHERENCE AND AGONY -- 9. HOW THE DIE WAS CAST, AND OTHER SKELETONS -- 10. FROM BREAKDOWN TO BREAKUP, 1956–57 -- NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1943 the American Communist Party was a large, politically influential, broadly based movement. In 1957 it was a small, weak, and isolated political sect. The Party's decline in the intervening Cold War years is the subject of this book-an analysis of a major radical movement that touched millions of Americans and pervaded many aspects of American life. The author, at one time active in the Party and foreign editor of its paper, the Daily Worker, and now a scholar and professor of political science, has combined personal experience with careful scholarship to analyze what happened to a revolutionary organization that found itself unable to make a revolution. His approach is not autobiographical, but rather analytical. Mr. Starobin places the Party in its historical and political context and describes its unsuccessful efforts to adapt to the demands of the American political situation. Throughout the book are fresh interpretations of important events: the struggle in 1945 between Earl Browder and William Z. Foster for leadership of the Party, the outcome of which had a profound effect on the Party's future course; the nature of Browder's policies and Moscow's eventual rejection of him; the Henry Wallace movement of 1948; the right-left battle within the CIO in the late forties; the "Communist conspiracy" problem of the fifties; the Party's relationship with the Soviet Communists; the origins of the "Black liberation movement." The author's basic conclusion is that American Communists were on their way to becoming an authentic and powerful radical movement in American life but were defeated by a basic contradiction: they could not continue to be part of a world movement dominated by Leninist concepts and yet consolidate their relative success within the United States, where these concepts were not applicable. To survive, the Party had to change. It had to anticipate by fifteen years and to endure the two tendencies that would develop within world Communism: the Russian quasi-revolutionary strain and the Chinese ultra-revolutionary. It tried, Mr. Starobin shows, and it failed. American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957 will interest not only history-minded readers but also anyone concerned today with social change. The book has much to say to the new left-giving historical material necessary for an understanding of its past and its potential. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Communism. Kommunismus. Politik. Communism -- United States. Communist Party of the United States of America. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: World History eBook Package 9783110353563 ZDB-23-HWH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674368781 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674368798 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674368798 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674368798/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I. THE BACKGROUND -- I. THE HARD LOOK BACKWARD OVER THE DIFFICULT DECADE -- II. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: THE THIRTIES TO THE WAR -- PART II. FROM WAR TO THE AMBIGUITIES OF PEACE -- 3. TWO LEADERS FACE THE UNKNOWN -- 4. SANCTION FROM DIMITROV AND DOOM BY DUCLOS -- 5. THE PARTY RESTORED -- 6. QUESTIONS IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS, 1946–47 -- PART III. WHEN A MOVEMENT HAS LOST ITS WAY -- 7. DUBIOUS BATTLES AND CRUCIAL DECISIONS, 1947–48 -- 8. INCOHERENCE AND AGONY -- 9. HOW THE DIE WAS CAST, AND OTHER SKELETONS -- 10. FROM BREAKDOWN TO BREAKUP, 1956–57 -- NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Backmatter |
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