The Roots of American Communism: The Untold Story of the Formative Years of the Communist Party in America

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This book is one of a series of studies of Communist influence in American life. The entire survey has been made possible through the foresight and generous support of the "Fund for the Republic". "The Left Wing Americans and émigrés made up a closely knit little international community in those days. At one New York mass meeting in 1917, for example, Trotsky spoke in Russian, Lore in German, Nuorteva in Finnish, Boudin in English, and others in Lettish, Jewish, and Lithuanian." -- p.79 A Volume In The Series "Communism In American Life" (Clinton Rossiter, General Editor). Other Volumes in the Series: "The Communists And The Schools" by Robert W. Iversen; "The Decline Of American Communism" by David A. Shannon; "American Communism And Soviet Russia" by Theodore Draper; "Communism And The Churches" by Ralph Lord Roy; "Marxism: The View From America" by Clinton Rossiter; "The Social Basis Of American Communism" by Nathan Glazer; "The Moulding Of Communists" by Frank S. Meyer; "Writers On The Left" by Daniel Aaron. Introduction. 1. The Historic Left. 2. The Age of Unrest. 3. The New Left Wing. 4. Influences and Influencers. 5. The Left at War. 6. The Reflected Glory. 7. Roads to Moscow. 8. The Revolutionary Age. 9. The Real Split. 10. The Great Schism. 11. The Sibling Rivalry. 12. The Underground. 13. The Second Split. 14. Spies, Victims, and Couriers. 15. The Crisis of Communism. 16. To the Masses! 17. The Revolution Devours Its Children. 18. New Forces. 19. The Legal Party. 20. The Manipulated Revolution. 21. The Two-Way Split. 22. The Raid. 23. The Transformation. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index.