Paul Mishler

Raising Reds

The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how Communist parents in America from the 1920s to the 1950s attempted to rear their children as Communists. Their ultimate social and political goals, and their sometimes contradictory desires as parents, the book shows, were reflected in the education and upbringing of their children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780231110457
• ISBN-10: 0231110456
• Artikelnr.: 20955569

Autorenporträt

Paul C. Mishler is a labor educator and historian currently teaching at the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
II. The Littlest Proletariat: The Family And Education in Communist Theory
1922-1934
III. The Soviet of Children: The Young Pioneers of America and the
Communist Children's Movement 1922--1934
IV. "Americans All! Immigrants All!'': Children of the Popular Front
1934--45
V. Socialism in One Summer: Radical Summer Camps in the 1930s and 1940s
VI. Primers for Revolution: Communist Books for Children
VII. Conclusion