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A weapon in the struggle : the cultural history of the communist party in Britain
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Year: 1998 Publisher: Sterling, Va. London Pluto Press

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American communism in crisis, 1943-1957
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ISBN: 0674022750 Year: 1972 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Venona : decoding Soviet espionage in America
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ISBN: 0300077718 Year: 1999 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
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ISBN: 0300070527 0300061137 Year: 1996 Publisher: Yale university press


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The cause that failed : communism in American political life
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ISBN: 1283121352 9786613121356 0199874298 9780199874293 0195057481 9780195057485 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of gla

Earl Browder : the failure of American communism
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ISBN: 0585280177 9780585280172 0817308431 9780817308438 Year: 1997 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,

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Earl Browder was the preeminent Communist party leader in the United States in the 20th century. A Kansas native and veteran of numerous radical movements, Browder was peculiarly fitted by circumstance and temperament to head "the cause" during its heyday, the critical years of the Great Depression and World War II. In this new biography James Ryan shows Browder as a man of many contradictions. He was shy but sought publicity. He prided himself on being a Stalinist, yet viewed himself as a loyal American. He moved up within the structure of the organization (the CPUSA or CP) by anticipating changes in the party line, but believed he could assert his individuality without recrimination. In writing this book, James Ryan investigated recently opened annals in the Soviet Archives. These records included a collection of American Communist party files covering the period of 1919 to 1944, which were secretly shipped to Moscow and until 1992 only rumored to have existed. Ryan also consulted the Browder Papers at Syracuse University and U.S. government documents, particularly FBI files. Ryan's comprehensive biography sheds new light on both the life of Earl Browder and the workings of the Communist party in the United States during its peak of popularity. His research suggests that Browder's life represents a middle ground between two competing interpretations of the party. The traditional view, developed in the 1950s, has stressed the Soviet-dominated mind-set of CP leaders. By contrast, the revisionist school, dominant among academic historians between 1975 and 1995, has emphasized home-grown roots and domestic concerns. Ryan shows convincingly that Browder blended elements of both, thus calling for a new view of American Communism during this period.


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The new emperors : power and the princelings in China
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ISBN: 9781780769103 0857733834 9780857733832 1780769105 0755619390 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : I.B.Tauris,

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"China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Dragons, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's system might have its roots in peasant rebellion but it is now firmly under the control of a power-conscious Beijing elite, almost half of whose members are related directly to former senior Party leaders."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Stalin's terror revisited
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ISBN: 1403947058 1349524077 9786613185037 0230597335 1283185032 Year: 2006 Volume: *5


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Moscow, 1937
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ISBN: 9780745650760 0745650767 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge ; Malden Polity


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Stalinism : Its Impact on Russia and the World
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ISBN: 0851172237 Year: 1982

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