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Hardcover The Soviet World of American Communism Book

ISBN: 0300071507

ISBN13: 9780300071504

The Soviet World of American Communism (Annals of Communism Series)

(Part of the Annals of Communism Series)

The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political, and historical importance.

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.

The authors explain and annotate ninety-five documents, reproduced here in their entirety or in large part, and they quote from hundreds of others to reveal the actual workings of the American Communist party. They show that:

- the USSR covertly provided a large part of the CPUSA budget from the early 1920s to the end of the 1980s;

- Moscow issued orders, which the CPUSA obeyed, on issues ranging from what political decisions the American party should make to who should serve in the party leadership;

- the CPUSA endorsed Stalin's purges and the persecution of Americans living in Russia.

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The book exposes the sordid details of the intimate, subservient relationship between the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), particularly focusing on the CPUSA's height around the 1930s. It does so largely by analyzing (in proper historical context) documents stored in the Russian archives which were briefly made available to scholars after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of those documents...

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Documentation of Comintern support for the CPUSA

This is another volume in the terrific "Annals of Communism" series. This volume documents Soviet activities in the US from the Soviet side of the events. It contains 95 documents that demonstrate conclusively the USSR involvement in American communism and the CPUSA. This includes documents 43, 44, 45, 46 which are a letter from Gus Hall (longtime leader of the CPUSA and their perennial presidential candidate) pleading...

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This book finally exposes the depth of American Communism

This book brings some closure to the McCarthy era witch-hunt, and to accusations that many in the west, sympathetic to Communism, turned their backs on the Great Terror where millions of people died. When Communism fell ten years ago, archives were finally opened and the connection between Soviet controls of American Communism was finally documented. Not only did American Communists turn their backs on the politicide taking...

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As with THE SECRET WORLD OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM, this book answers long standing questions about the history of the Communist Party, U.S.A.SECRET WORLD showed that espionage and subversion was an integral part of the Communist movement, a core activity. SOVIET WORLD shows just how tightly the CPUSA was governed from Moscow -- the only time there was a shred of independant thinking was during WWII, when the Comintern was...

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