Pub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2024.2358254
Charles Holm
{"title":"Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution\u0000 Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution\u0000 , by Christina Heatherton, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022, 336 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-5202-8787-7.","authors":"Charles Holm","doi":"10.1080/14743892.2024.2358254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2024.2358254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35150,"journal":{"name":"American Communist History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2024.2343548
Diana Jaher
{"title":"“Down the Left Hand Path to Perdition”: Equity, the Actors Forum, and Anti-Communism","authors":"Diana Jaher","doi":"10.1080/14743892.2024.2343548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2024.2343548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35150,"journal":{"name":"American Communist History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140997164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2024.2330759
J. Calver
{"title":"The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World\u0000 The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World\u0000 , by Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-13126-4.","authors":"J. Calver","doi":"10.1080/14743892.2024.2330759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2024.2330759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35150,"journal":{"name":"American Communist History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140375095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2024.2321402
Tionne Alliyah Parris
{"title":"Communist Women’s Activism around the World, Part 1: Global Foremothers (Review)\u0000 \u0000 The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World\u0000 \u0000 , by Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-13126-4.","authors":"Tionne Alliyah Parris","doi":"10.1080/14743892.2024.2321402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2024.2321402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35150,"journal":{"name":"American Communist History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140083897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2300896
Daniel Rosenberg
{"title":"The Trials of Paul Novick: Israel, Zionism, and the CPUSA","authors":"Daniel Rosenberg","doi":"10.1080/14743892.2023.2300896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2023.2300896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35150,"journal":{"name":"American Communist History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139524844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2270375
Gregory Geddes
AbstractThe sociologist C. Wright Mills is no stranger to students of treatments of both the mid-twentieth century American Left and U.S. intellectual history. Mills’s confidante, neighbor, and intellectual ally, the novelist and essayist Harvey Swados, remains an understudied figure in the history of the twentieth century intellectual and literary left. A deeper examination of the Mills-Swados relationship provides not only with a more complete portrait of Mills, but another unique and independent voice in mid-twentieth century intellectual radicalism more clearly emerges. A one-time Trotskyist and a former member of the Max Shachtman-led Workers Party, Swados not only wrote acclaimed literary fiction, but also addressed issues that were distinctly unfashionable among the intellectual left in the 1950s and 1960s: the less ideological and more business-unionist labor leadership; the realities, including the humiliations, of the lives of blue-collar workers in the “Fat Fifties”; and the problems of how to interact with a generation of restless young people were coming of age in an era of material comfort, but who also increasingly wanted a larger voice in American society. Examining the relationship also allows us to better able understand the increasing tension between the different tendencies among leftist intellectuals in the years when Cold War concerns dominated American society, and accommodation with Soviet communism or new forms of socialism was seen as unacceptable by a once-radical generation of intellectuals disillusioned by the atrocities of Stalinism. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), 219.2 David Brown, “Free Radical,” Review of Radical Ambition, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Summer2009/contents.html#3 Much of the work on the New York Intellectuals builds on Daniel Aaron’s seminal work, Writers on the Left (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961). See the following: Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); Alexander Bloom, Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986); Alan Wald, The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987); Hugh Wilford: The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995); Richard Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s & 1950s (New York: Harper & Row, 1985); Harvey Teres, Renewing the Left: Politics, Imagination, and the New York Intellectuals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Joseph Dorman, Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2267948
Melissa Ford
"In the Company of Radical Women Writers." American Communist History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
"与激进女作家为伍"《美国共产主义史》，未付印前1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2225387
Kristoff Kerl
Abstract In the late 1960s, new styles of revolutionary politics of ecstasy emerged in the United States. They combined countercultural politics of transforming the subject via the experience of ecstatic states of the body with radical approaches to a fundamental reconfiguration of the societal order. A vital force in shaping such new styles of radical politics was the White Panther Party – an organization that was not only an influential actor in the countercultural and radical landscapes in the United States but also impacted European countercultures. The article examines how White Panthers merged politics of ecstasy with eclectically adapted bits and pieces of various communist ideas and ideologies and, thus, shaped a new style of radical politics that we might name psychedelic Marxism. Furthermore, it traces the changes in how the White Panther Party and its predecessors, the Detroit Artists Workshop and Trans-Love Energies, set states of ecstasy and societal change in relation to each other. Shedding light on White Panthers’ politics of ecstasy allows us to learn more about the ongoing reshaping of countercultural and radical politics during the late 1960s, but also about trajectories of communist ideas and ideologies that have not found much scholarly attention yet.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2203308
Vernon L. Pedersen
The Populist Party appeared on the political scene in 1892 championing free silver, direct election of Senators, regulation of railroad shipping fees and creation of a network of federally controlled grain storage facilities, all intended to benefit the nation’s small farmers and rural communities increasingly beleaguered by global markets and distant elites. Four years later the defeat of William Jennings Bryan by William McKinley triggered the collapse of the Populist Party as political force. But the problems confronting the nation’s small farmers did not go away. The wide-ranging solutions rural radicals tried and discarded are the topic of William C. Pratt’s After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Great Plains, 1900–1960. The book is a compilation of previously published material revised into a chronological narrative marking the culmination of a distinguished forty-year career. The book begins with a survey of the historiography of rural radicalism. Although an abundance of scholarship exists on populism the subject is hard to define. Among the works considered in Pratt’s discussion are two essential texts, John D. Hicks 1931 study, The Populist Revolt and Lawrence Goodwyn’s 1976 work The Democratic Promise.1 Despite its flaws, such as a reliance on the Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier theory, neglect of women’s roles and underutilization of available resources Pratt prefers Hicks because of his broad definition of populism as agrarians who sought a third-party solution to their dilemmas. Socialism is much easier to define as it was a coherently organized political party. The bulk of existing research on the Socialist Party at the local level focuses on Oklahoma, a stronghold of rural radicalism, but far away from Pratt’s preferred field of the Northern Plains. Study of the Nonpartisan League (NPL), however, centers on North Dakota right in Pratt’s backyard. Equally strong scholarship exists for the history of Communist Party organizing on the Northern Plains, unsurprising considering that communist organizers built on the foundation laid by the NPL. The next two chapters are some of the best ones in the book and could serve as required reading in undergraduate classes on the practice of history. In chapter two Pratt takes the reader on his summer trips around the Northern Plains, visiting local libraries and historical societies, conducting interviews in farm kitchens, and taking walks through small town cemeteries. The sheer effort required to collect small pieces of information and fit them together can boggle the mind. The chapter is also a celebration of the work of history chronicling the pleasure of tracking down individual stories and interviewing eyewitnesses. Chapter three recounts Pratt’s visits to the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (RGASPI), also known as the Comintern Archives, in Moscow. Although the Communist Party had a stronghold in Plentywood, Montana, clandestinely dominating Sheridan
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2023.2195796
Melissa Ford
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