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The Communist International and Us Communism, 1919-1929

The Communist International and Us Communism, 1919-1929

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AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 9004219609
ISBN13: 9789004219601
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 21 2014
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the American and international aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to Americanise. Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.

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