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"Did Latin American communists have stronger roots in the worldwide movement or in the historical developments of their own countries? This collection uses a transnational lens to examine the relationships of the region's local parties with each other, international counterparts, and outside groups dedicated to anti-imperialism, women's rights, and other causes. Part One's essays explore the era from the Bolshevik Revolution through 1943. Topics include the failed connection between Mexican communists and the Comintern, Black migrant workers and the Caribbean labor movement, race relations in Cuba, Latin American communists in the USSR, and Luâis Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party. Part Two focuses on the Cold War years to look at Soviet peace activism networks in Latin America, Guatemala's communist women before the 1954 coup, Puerto Rico's communist party, transnational student groups, and international influences on Salvadoran guerrillas. Insightful and expert, Transnational Communism across the Americas illuminates the various Latin American communist parties and their milieus, programs, and policies"--
List of contents
Introduction: From the National to the Transnational Marc Becker, Margaret M. Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob Zumoff
Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-43)
1. The Comintern, the Mexican Communist Party, and the “Sandino Case”: The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-30
Lazar Jeifets and Victor Jeifets
2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s
Jacob A. Zumoff
3. The “Negro Question” in Cuba, 1928-36
Frances Peace Sullivan
4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-36
Tony Wood
5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-35
Jacob Blanc
Part II: Latin American Communism in the Cold War Frame (1945-89)
6. Latin America and the Communist World in the Early 1950s: The Networks of Soviet Pacifism and Latin American Anti-Imperialism
Adriana Petra
7. Breaking the Silence: Communist Women, Transnationalism, and the Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca, 1947-54
Patricia Harms
8. A Political and Transnational Ménage a Trois: The Communist Party USA, the Puerto Rican Communist Party, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1934-45
Margaret M. Power
9. Transnational Youth and Student Groups in the 1950s
Marc Becker
10. Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the “People’s War” Strategy
Kevin A. Young
Afterword: Remapping the Past
Tanya Harmer
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
Marc Becker teaches history at Truman State University. He is the author of
The CIA in Ecuador.
Margaret Power is professor emeritus of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of
Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964–1973.
Tony Wood teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of
Russia without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of New Cold War.
Jacob A. Zumoff teaches at New Jersey City University. He is the author of
The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike.
