The Soviet world of American communism

The_Soviet_World_of_America.pdf......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 18
A Note on the Documents......Page 22
Glossary of Individuals and Organizations......Page 24
Chronology of American Communism......Page 34
Introduction......Page 40
CHAPTER ONE Orders from the Comintern......Page 53
The Consolidation of the American Communist Party......Page 54
The Comintern Sets American Party Policy......Page 60
Comintern Intervention in American Party Meetings......Page 68
The 1936 Presidential Campaign......Page 70
The Comintern and the Leadership of the CPUSA......Page 79
The CPUSA in the Labor Movement......Page 87
The Nazi-Soviet Pact......Page 110
The “Just War of Defense”......Page 123
The Downfall of Earl Browder......Page 130
CHAPTER TWO Moscow Gold......Page 146
Designated Funds......Page 163
Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities......Page 177
Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies......Page 186
The Significance of the Moscow Gold......Page 198
Comintern “Reps”......Page 204
The Plenipotentiaries......Page 205
Other Functionaries......Page 212
The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative......Page 215
The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations......Page 226
John Reed, Louis Fraina, and Nicholas Hourwich......Page 230
Responsibilities of the CPUSA Representative......Page 239
American Communists in the “Great Land of Socialism”......Page 254
The Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman......Page 257
Karelian Fever and the Purge of the North American Finns......Page 266
Thomas Sgovio: An American in the Great Terror......Page 283
American Emissaries during World War II......Page 291
Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election......Page 296
CHAPTER FOUR Imported Hatred......Page 311
Early Training in Ideological Conformity......Page 313
The Comintern Proclaims “Social Fascism” to Be the New Enemy......Page 318
The Madison Square Garden Riot......Page 321
The Moscow Trials and the Great Terror......Page 330
Earl Browder Declares War on Trotskyists......Page 331
The Trotsky-Zinoviev Trial of 1936......Page 336
The Lovestoneite Deviation......Page 345
Pressure for Even Greater Press Fervor......Page 348
Comintern Education in Ideological Sensitivity......Page 358
Tools of Discipline......Page 363
Expulsion......Page 364
Dealing with Deviationists: Scott Nearing and Edgar Snow......Page 373
CHAPTER FIVE Fellowcountrymen......Page 386
Comintern Representatives Serving in the United States......Page 396
American Communist Party Representatives to the Communist International Who Were Stationed in Moscow......Page 399
American Communists Serving in the Comintern in Minor Positions or Sent on Comintern Missions to Other Countries......Page 400
Americans Holding Positions in the Communist International’s Highest Bodies......Page 402
“American” Signers of the “Call for the Formation of the Communist International”......Page 403
Selected Readings......Page 406
Index......Page 410