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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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1972
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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