San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958

by Robert W. Cherny

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city's CP from its founding through 1958.

Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, interviews, and memoirs to follow male...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252045831
• ISBN13: 9780252045837
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"