The Communist International and Us Communism, 1919-1929

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-21960-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to “Americanise”. Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zumoff, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.