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The Long War - The Intellectual People’s Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930–1940 (Paperback)
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The Long War - The Intellectual People’s Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930–1940 (Paperback)
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In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support
from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in
response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to the
growing power of fascism abroad. The Long War, a social history of
these intellectuals and their political institutions, tells the
story of the rift that developed among the groups loosely organized
under the umbrella of the Party--representing communist supporters
of the People's Front and those who would become
anti-Stalinists--and the evolution of that rift into a generational
divide that would culminate in the liberal anti-communism of the
post-World War II era.
Judy Kutulas takes us into the debates and outright fights between
and within the ranks of organizations such as the League of
American Writers, the John Reed Clubs, the Committee for Cultural
Freedom, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National
Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Showing how
extremist views about the nature and value of communism triumphed
over more moderate ones, she traces the transfer of the left's
leadership from one generation to the next. She describes how
supporters of the People's Front were discredited by the time of
the Nazi-Soviet Pact and how this opened the way for a new
generation of leaders better known as the New York intellectuals.
In this shift, Kutulas identifies the beginnings of the liberal
anti-communism that would follow World War II.
A book for students and scholars of the intersection of politics
and culture, The Long War offers a new, informed perspective on the
intellectual maneuvers of the American left of the 1930s and leads
to a reinterpretation of the time and its complex legacy.
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