Fraser M. Ottanelli examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1

Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book

This is William Z. Foster's definitive history of the Communist Party of the United States. In it he relates the history of a party of the American working clas

The hidden world of American communism can now be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. Interweaving

He also tracks the public's changing perception of the Communists, from amused unconcern to alarm, and details how the Ober antisubversive law and the HUAC hear