United States Communist History Bibliography 2019

The subject of the annual Bibliography is the English language scholarly literature of U.S. Communism, supplemented by citations from serious non-scholarly journals, journals of opinion, obituaries, etc. The literature “of” Communism includes not only material directly about Communism, but selected materials overlapping with, tangential or adjacent to the subject of U.S. Communism; or otherwise of close interest to scholars of Communism. This broad approach is especially necessary as the “classical” era of Communism (1919-1991) recedes into the past. While research output directly about U.S. Communism per se may have declined, nevertheless, scholarship related to U.S. Communism continues, and has broadened its disciplinary, topical, and theoretical approaches. Anticommunism also receives extensive coverage. Reviews are excluded. Informational annotations are provided where a work’s title does not convey its chronological or geographical scope, key personal or corporate names, subject or relevance. For most edited monographs, and for some single-author monographs, the table of contents and/or the author’s or publisher’s abstract are provided, when available and appropriate. An outstanding cumulative bibliography, through 2008, is John Earl Haynes’ American Communism and Anticommunism: A Historian’s Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. It contains over 10,000 entries, most annotated, is extensively topically subdivided, and is particularly strong on anti-Communism. Researchers are strongly urged to make use of it. (http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page94.html).