Communist International And U.s. Communism, 1919-1929 - Historical Materialism, Volume 82

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

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• Authors: Jacob A. Zumoff, Zumoff Jacob A.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
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• Released: 05.05.2015
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