Jacob A Zumoff

The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929

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Produktbeschreibung

For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781608464876
• ISBN-10: 1608464873
• Artikelnr.: 41619725

Autorenporträt

Jacob A. Zumoff, PhD (2003) in history, University of London, has lectured at several universities, including as a visiting professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and, most recently, New Jersey City University. He has published on the labour movement and racial oppression in the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: History and Historiography of American Communism in the 1920s
1: The Formation of the Communist Party, 1912-21
2: The Fight for Legality
3: Communists and the Labour Movement
4: William Z. Foster and the Turn towards the Labour Movement
5: The Farmer-Labor Party
6: The La Follette Fiasco, 1923-24
7: The Double-Edged Sword of 'Bolshevisation', 1924-26
8: The Foreign-Language Federations and 'Bolshevisation'
9: Factionalism and Mass Work, 1925-27
10: The death of Ruthenberg and the Ascension of Lovestone, 1926-27
11: Lovestone between Bukharin and Stalin, 1927-28
12: The 'Third Period', the Sixth Congress and the Elimination of
Opposition, 1928-29
13: Lovestone becomes a Lovestoneite, 1928-1929
14: The 'Negro Question' to the Fourth Comintern Congress
15: The 'Negro Question' from the Fourth to the Sixth Congress
16: The Sixth Congress and the 'Negro Question'
17: 'Self-Determination' and Comintern Intervention
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index