Secret World of American Communism : Documents from the Soviet Archives.

For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. By interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United...

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Main Author: Klehr, Harvey E.
Other Authors: Haynes, John Earl, Firsov, Fridrikh Igorevich
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.
Series:Annals of Communism.
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505 0 |a Contents -- List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Documents -- Glossary of Individuals and Organizations -- Chronology of American Communism -- CHAPTER ONE Background -- A Brief History of the American Communist Party -- The Clandestine Activities of the CPUSA -- The Question of Joseph McCarthy -- The Historiographic Debate -- CHAPTER TWO Clandestine Habits: The 1920s and the Early 1930s -- The Comintern and Covert Operations -- John Reed and Clandestine Funding of American Communism 
505 8 |a Julius and Armand HammerOther Secret Communications -- The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat -- Earl Browder and Undercover Operations in Asia -- Harrison George and the Secret Work of the PPTUS -- Agnes Smedley, Comintern Agent -- CHAPTER THREE The Secret Apparatus of the CPUSA: The Early Years -- The CPUSA Establishes Its Secret Apparatus -- J. Peters and the Secret Apparatus, 1932â€?1938 -- Rudy Baker Replaces J. Peters -- The Washington Communist Underground, 1933â€?1943 -- The Ware Group and the La Follette Committee 
505 8 |a Peters and the Washington Informant Group, 1943Copying Confidential State Department Letters, 1936 -- CHAPTER FOUR The Secret Apparatus Branches Out -- The Secret Apparatus under Rudy Baker, 1938â€?1940 -- Fighting Ideological Deviationists and Other Enemies -- Weeding Out Internal Enemies -- Stealing the Files of Party Enemies -- Enforcing Ideological Conformity -- Max, the Agent Who Wouldnâ€?t Go Home, 1939â€?1942 -- Fighting Deviationists and Bad Elements in the Spanish Civil War -- The Surveillance of Bertram Wolfe, 1937 -- The Death of Albert Wallach, 1938 
505 8 |a Â€œSuspicious Individuals and Desertersâ€? in the Abraham Lincoln BattalionCHAPTER FIVE Other Faces of the Secret World -- Ann Cadwallader Coles, a Southern Artist in the Secret World -- American Communists and Soviet Radio Propaganda, 1937â€?1942 -- Williana Burroughs, New York Teacher and Soviet Radio Propagandist -- American Students in the International Lenin School -- American Communists in Red Army Uniforms, 1936 -- CHAPTER SIX The American Communist Party, the Secret Apparatus, and the NKVD -- The Brother-Son Network in World War II 
505 8 |a The Brother-Son Network and Soviet Atomic EspionageMorris Cohen, Atomic Spy -- Recruiting Japanese Cadre for the Comintern -- Earl Browder and the NKVD -- Earl Browder as an NKVD Talent Spotter, 1940 -- Margaret Browder, NKVD Agent, 1938 -- Irene Browder, Commissar with “Emergency Powersâ€? -- Earl Browderâ€?s “Back Channelâ€? to the White House -- CHAPTER SEVEN The American Communist Underground Fights World War II -- The CPUSA, the OSS, and Soviet Intelligence -- Recruiting Veterans of the International Brigades for the OSS, 1941â€?1945 
520 |a For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. By interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), one of the most controversial organizations in American public life. Heated debates about whether the Communist Party harbored spies or engaged in espionage have surrounded the party from its inception. This authoritative book provides proof that the CPUSA was involved in various subversive activities. At the same time, it discloses fascinating details about the workings of the party and about the ordinary Americans and CPUSA leaders who participated in its clandestine activities. The documents presented range from letters by Americans wishing to do international covert work for the Soviet Union to top secret memos between the head of Soviet foreign intelligence, the Comintern, and the CPUSA. They confirm that--the Soviet Union heavily subsidized the CPUSA and that some prominent Americans laundered money for the Comintern;--the CPUSA maintained a covert espionage apparatus in the United States with direct ties to Soviet intelligence;--the testimony of former Communists concerning underground Communist activity in the United States can be substantiated;--American Communists working in government agencies stole documents and passed them to the CPUSA, which sent them on to Moscow;--the CPUSA played a role in atomic espionage; and much more. An engrossing narrative places the documents in their historical context and explains key figures, organizations, and events. Together the narrative and documents provide a revealing picture of American communism and convey the contradictory passions that drew so many Americans into the Communist movement and eventually tore that movement apart. 
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