"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 stag

This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to completion what the author describes as the essence of the relationship of American Communism

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

“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of so

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