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The Roots of American Communism (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Roots of American Communism (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist
Party in America--from its early background through its founding in
1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore
Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the
party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as
its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy
"was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to
the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power," a fact
that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, "American Communism
and Soviet Russia." In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper
himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a
museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually
been all things to all men... There are many ways of trying to
understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In
some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least
to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends
to be static, one-sided or unbalanced." Draper correctly notes that
the formative period of the American Communist movement has
remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues
this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was
not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United
States. This is a must read for scholars and laypersons alike. This
volume is conceived as an independent and self-contained study of
the American Communist movement. Draper correctly notes that the
formative period is largely untold and even unknown. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. Draper appreciates
the fact that communism was not something that happened only in
Russia, but also took place in the United States. That experience
is the focus of this volume.
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