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Jimmy Higgins: The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958

Jimmy Higgins: The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Political Science, Book 207

General EducationSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0313262462
ISBN13: 9780313262463
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Aug 24 1988
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member. Jimmy Higgins was an imaginary composite considered the ideal for members to emulate; the attitudes and beliefs held by Jimmy Higgins-type members have not been adequately studied until now. As Kraditor demonstrates these members differed in important ways from the Party leaders and cadre, and also from the vast majority of members who belonged to the Party for only a few years. Basing her analysis on a detailed textual examination of thousands of pages of Party publications and on her own experience as a long-term Party member, Kraditor reconstructs the second reality in which the devout rank-and-file member lived.

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