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This Week's Suggested Book
from the
Ashbrook Center
(Week of July 27, 1998)
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The Soviet World of American Communism
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Kyrill M. Anderson
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Published by Yale University Press
416 pages, 1998
Hardcover, $24.50
ISBN: 0-300-07150-7
Based on documents newly available from Russian archives, The Soviet World of American Communism conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. In a meticulous investigation of the personal, organizational, and financial links between the CPUSA and Soviet Communists, the authors find that Moscow maintained extensive control of the CPUSA, even of the American rank and file. The widely accepted view that the CPUSA was essentially an idealistic organization devoted to the pursuit of social justice must be radically revised, say the authors. Although individuals within the organization may not have been aware of Moscow's influence, the leaders of the organization most definitely were.
Table of Contents
- List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Documents
- Glossary of Individuals and Organizations
- Chronology of American Communism
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Orders from the Comintern
- In the Beginning: The 1920s
- Communism in Its Heyday: The 1930s
- The CPUSA in the Labor Movement
- Ch. 2. Moscow Gold
- Designated Funds
- Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities
- Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies
- The Significance of the Moscow Gold
- Ch. 3. Communists Abroad
- Comintern "Reps"
- The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative
- The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations
- Americans Stationed in Moscow
- American Communists in the "Great Land of Socialism"
- American Emissaries during World War II
- Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election
- Ch. 4. Imported Hatred
- Early Training in Ideological Conformity
- The Soviet Union and the Splintering of the American Left
- The Moscow Tria
ls and the Great Terror
- Comintern Education in Ideological Sensitivity
- Tools of Discipline
- Ch. 5. Fellowcountrymen
- App. American and Soviet Cominternists
- Selected Readings
- Index
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