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An edition of The romance of American Communism (1977)

The romance of American Communism

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Interviews with American Communists who joined the Party around the 1930s and left or were expelled by the1960s.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
265

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Subjects

Communism, revolutionary politics, ethics, bureaucracy

People

Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), Nikita Khruschev

Places

United States, Czechoslovakia

Times

1930s-1960s
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Cover of: Romance of American Communism
Romance of American Communism
2020, Verso Books, Verso
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Cover of: The romance of American Communism
The romance of American Communism
1977, Basic Books
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First Sentence

"Before I knew I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Page ix
Contents
Page x
One. To Begin With
Page 3
Two. They Came form Everywhere: All Kinds of Beginnings
Page 28
The Jewish Marxists
Page 30
The Dos Passos Immigrants
Page 59
The American Populists
Page 66
Those of the Middle Kingdom
Page 85
Three. Living it out: From Vision to Dogma and Halfway Back
Page 107
The ordinariness of Daily Activity and the Revolution Around the Corner
Page 109
The Wholeness of the CP World
Page 112
The Party Unionist
Page 125
Ambivalence: Beneath the "Wholeness" Disintegrating Conflict
Page 130
Going into Industry
Page 145
The Underground
Page 158
What We Did to Each Other
Page 169
The Lure of the Disciplined Revolutionary Party
Page 182
Four. They Went Back Into Everywhere: Varieties of Aftermath
Page 190
Politics Without the Party Is Unthinkable
Page 193
The Anti-Communist Communist
Page 203
The Wounds of the Past
Page 214
"I Lost More Than I Got"
Page 219
"Communism Was Part of the Journey"
Page 227
"It Was the Best Life a Man Could Have Had"
Page 234
The Political Emotion Embodied
Page 242
"I'll Tell You What a Communist Is"
Page 248
Five. To End With
Page 256

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
335.43/0973
Library of Congress
HX83 .G6

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 265 p. ;
Number of pages
265

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4562394M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0465071104
LCCN
77075248
OCLC/WorldCat
3168546
Library Thing
237873
Goodreads
2857132

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