Jimmy Higgins - The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958 (Hardcover)

This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member. "Jimmy Higgins" was an imaginary composite considered the ideal for members to emulate; the attitudes and beliefs held by Jimmy Higgins-type members have not been adequately studied until now. As Kraditor demonstrates these members differed in important ways from the Party leaders and cadre, and also from the vast majority of members who belonged to the Party for only a few years. Basing her analysis on a detailed textual examination of thousands of pages of Party publications and on her own experience as a long-term Party member, Kraditor reconstructs the "second reality" in which the devout rank-and-file member lived.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1988
First published:	August 1988
Authors:	Aileen Kraditor
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-26246-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Promotions
LSN:	0-313-26246-2
Barcode:	9780313262463

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