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1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) |
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1: History of an encounter -- Early years: isolation and internal strife -- Progressives, socialists, and the united front -- The theory and practice of front organizations -- The "red decade" -- World War II: demise and rebirth of the popular front -- Liberal anticommunism during the Cold War era -- The revival of anti-anticommunism -- 2: Organizational response: cooperation with, acceptance or exclusion of Communists -- The American civil liberties union through changing times -- The peace movement: the difficulty of learning from experience -- The travail of progressivism -- The committee of a sane nuclear policy: from center to left -- The nonexclusionary policy triumphant: SDS and the movement against the Vietnam War -- 3: American Communism today -- The old left-new left Nexus -- Retrospect and outlook |
| Summary |
From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of gla |
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Communist parties History |
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United States |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-345) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Communist Party of the United States of America -- History -- 20th century
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Communist Party of the United States of America fast |
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Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Communism
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Politics and government
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Kommunismus
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Geschichte
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United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
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United States
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USA
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199874293 |
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0199874298 |
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