Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War America - The Daily Worker and the Great Depression

This book explores the role of propaganda and press, particularly The Daily Worker, in the political strategy of the Communist Party of the United States as it achieved an unprecedented degree of cultural and political influence at the dawn of the Cold War.

About the author

Henry H. Prown is the 2022-25 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies and an instructor in the History, Classics, and Religion Department at University of Alberta, Canada. He is a specialist on the transnational history of Communism and the relationship between Stalinism and the American media in the mid-20th Century.

Product details

• Authors: Henry H Prown, Henry H Prown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9781350575295
• ISBN: 978-1-350-57529-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 28 mm x 28 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Harvard Cold War Studies Book
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Far-left political ideologies and movements, History of the Americas, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements