The Soviet World of American Communism

, by Haynes, John Earl; Anderson, K. M.; Rossiiskii Tsentr Khraneniia I Izucheniia Dokumentov Noveishei istorii; Klehr, Harvey

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ISBN: 9780300071504 | 0300071507
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1998

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Based on documents newly available from Russian archives, this book conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. The authors explains and annotate 95 documents, reproduced here in their entirety or in large part, and quote from others to reveal the actual workings of the American Communist Party.

List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile

(2)

Preface

xiii

(4)

Acknowledgments

xvii

(4)

A Note on the Documents

xxi

(2)

Glossary of Individuals and Organizations

xxiii

(10)

Chronology of American Communism

xxxiii

Introduction

(13)

CHAPTER ONE Orders from the Comintern

(93)

In the Beginning: The 1920s,

(16)

The Consolidation of the American Communist Party

(6)

The Comintern Sets American Party Policy

(8)

Comintern Intervention in American Party Meetings

(2)

Communism in Its Heyday: The 1930s

(17)

The 1936 Presidential Campaign

(9)

The Comintern and the Leadership of the CPUSA

(8)

The CPUSA in the Labor Movement

(23)

The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Its Aftermath

(20)

The Nazi-Soviet Pact

(13)

The "Just War of Defense,"

(7)

The Downfall of Earl Browder

(16)

CHAPTER TWO Moscow Gold

107

(58)

Designated Funds

124

(14)

Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities

138

(9)

Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies

147

(12)

The Significance of the Moscow Gold

159

(6)

CHAPTER THREE Communists Abroad

165

(107)

Comintern "Reps,"

165

(11)

The Plenipotentiaries

166

(7)

Other Functionaries

173

(3)

The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative

176

(11)

The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations

187

(4)

Americans Stationed in Moscow

191

(24)

John Reed, Louis Fraina, and Nicholas Hourwich

191

(9)

Responsibilities of the CPUSA Representative

200

(15)

American Communists in the "Great Land of Socialism,"

215

(37)

The Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman

218

(9)

Karelian Fever and the Purge of the North American Finns

227

(17)

Thomas Sgovio: An American in the Great Terror

244

(8)

American Emissaries during World War II

252

(5)

Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election

257

(15)

CHAPTER FOUR Imported Hatred

272

(75)

Early Training in Ideological Conformity

274

(5)

The Soviet Union and the Splintering of the American Left

279

(12)

The Comintern Proclaims "Social Fascism" to Be the New Enemy

279

(3)

The Madison Square Garden Riot

282

(9)

The Moscow Trials and the Great Terror

291

(28)

Earl Browder Declares War on Trotskyists

292

(5)

The Trotsky-Zinoview Trial of 1936

297

(9)

The Lovestoneite Deviation

306

(3)

Pressure for Even Greater Press Fervor

309

(10)

Comintern Education in Ideological Sensitivity

319

(5)

Tools of Discipline

324

(23)

Expulsion

325

(9)

Dealing with Deviationists: Scott Nearing and Edgar Snow

334

(13)

CHAPTER FIVE Fellowcountrymen

347

(20)

Appendix American and Soviet Cominternists

357

(1)

Comintern Representatives Serving in the United States

357

(3)

American Communist Party Representatives to the Communist International Who Were Stationed in Moscow

360

(1)

American Communists Serving in the Comintern in Minor Positions or Sent on Comintern Missions to Other Countries

361

(2)

Americans Holding Positions in the Communist International's Highest Bodies

363

(1)

"American" Signers of the "Call for the Formation of the Communist International,"

364

(3)

Selected Readings

367

(4)

Index

371

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