Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000

The principal subject of this annual bibliography is the English language scholarly literature of American Communism (supplemented by the occasional article from serious journals of opinion, obitua...

United States Communist History Bibliography 2016, and a Selective Bibliography of Non-U.S. Communism and Communism-Related Theory

In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist Party in America - from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s - Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy \"was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power,\" a fact that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, American Communism and Soviet Russia. In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: \"It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually been all things to all men...There are many ways of trying to understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends to be static, one-sided or unbalanced.\" Draper correctly notes that the formative period of the American Communist movement has remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United States. This is a must read for scholars and lay-persons alike. Both The Roots of American Communism and American Communism and Soviet Russia were commissioned by the Fund for the Republic series on Communism in American Life edited by Clinton Rossiter.

The Roots of American Communism.

Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965. By Eric Schickler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

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A Think Tank on the Left: The Institute for Policy Studies and Cold War America, 1963-1989

“... friendship between the[m]... and an exchange... published in... Partisan Review...” Craven, Alice Mikal, William E. Dow, Yoko Nakamura, editors, Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020). Cronin, Sean, James Connolly: Irish Revolutionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2020). Connolly spent some years in the U.S. Crowe, David, Hemmingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris: The Art of Resistance, (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2020). Curtin, Maureen F., “Drag and the Aesthetics of Free Speech in the Mosaic of Mary McCarthy’s Postmodern Affinities,” Women’s Studies 49, no. 4 (2020), 374–90. Cushman, Barry, “The Judicial Reforms of 1937,” William & Mary Law Review 61, no. 4 (2020), 995–1051. Return to the beginning of the Biographical & Individuals-Based Works section. Return to the beginning of the Bibliography.

Communist History Bibliography 2020: United States & International

The principal subject of this annual bibliography is the English language scholarly literature of United States Communism (supplemented by some articles from serious journals of opinion, obituaries...

United States Communist History Bibliography 2017 – and Selective International Communist History Bibliography (with a special section on the Russian Revolution)

The subject of the annual Bibliography is the English language scholarly literature of U.S. Communism, supplemented by citations from serious non-scholarly journals, journals of opinion, obituaries, etc. The literature “of” Communism includes not only material directly about Communism, but selected materials overlapping with, tangential or adjacent to the subject of U.S. Communism; or otherwise of close interest to scholars of Communism. This broad approach is especially necessary as the “classical” era of Communism (1919-1991) recedes into the past. While research output directly about U.S. Communism per se may have declined, nevertheless, scholarship related to U.S. Communism continues, and has broadened its disciplinary, topical, and theoretical approaches. Anticommunism also receives extensive coverage. Reviews are excluded. Informational annotations are provided where a work’s title does not convey its chronological or geographical scope, key personal or corporate names, subject or relevance. For most edited monographs, and for some single-author monographs, the table of contents and/or the author’s or publisher’s abstract are provided, when available and appropriate. An outstanding cumulative bibliography, through 2008, is John Earl Haynes’ American Communism and Anticommunism: A Historian’s Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. It contains over 10,000 entries, most annotated, is extensively topically subdivided, and is particularly strong on anti-Communism. Researchers are strongly urged to make use of it. (http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page94.html).

United States Communist History Bibliography 2019

The subject of this annual bibliography is the scholarly literature of American Communism. Readers will note that the bibliography is broad in scope, containing many items that are either tangentia...

Peter Meyer Filardo

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Communist History Bibliography 2020: United States & International

United States Communist History Bibliography 2017 – and Selective International Communist History Bibliography (with a special section on the Russian Revolution)

United States Communist History Bibliography 2016, and a Selective Bibliography of Non-U.S. Communism and Communism-Related Theory

United States Communist History Bibliography 2019

United States Communist History Bibliography 2015