THE SOVIET WORLD OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM
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Table of Contents

List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile...........................xi
Preface...........................................................xiii
Acknowledgments...................................................xvii
A Note on the Documents............................................xxi
Glossary of Individuals and Organizations........................xxiii
Chronology of American Communism................................xxxiii
Introduction.........................................................1
CHAPTER ONE Orders from the Comintern..............................14
In the Beginning: The 1920s,....................................15
The Consolidation of the American Communist Party,..........15
The Comintern Sets American Party Policy,...................21
Comintern Intervention in American Party Meetings,..........29
Communism in Its Heyday: The 1930s,.............................31
The 1936 Presidential Campaign,.............................31
The Comintern and the Leadership of the CPUSA,..............40
The CPUSA in the Labor Movement,................................48
The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Its Aftermath,.........................71
The Nazi-Soviet Pact,.......................................71
The "Just War of Defense,"..................................84
The Downfall of Earl Browder,...................................91
CHAPTER TWO Moscow Gold...........................................107
Designated Funds,..............................................124
Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities,.........................138
Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies,...............................147
The Significance of the Moscow Gold,...........................159
CHAPTER THREE Communists Abroad...................................165
Comintern "Reps,"..............................................165
The Plenipotentiaries,.....................................166
Other Functionaries,.......................................173
The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative,................................................176
The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations,..............187
Americans Stationed in Moscow,.................................191
John Reed, Louis Fraina, and Nicholas Hourwich,............191
Responsibilities of the CPUSA Representative,..............200
American Communists in the "Great Land of Socialism,"..........215
The Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman,.........................218
Karelian Fever and the Purge of the North American
Finns,.....................................................227
Thomas Sgovio: An American in the Great Terror,............244
American Emissaries during World War II,.......................252
Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election,..............257
CHAPTER FOUR Imported Hatred......................................272
Early Training in Ideological Conformity,......................274
The Soviet Union and the Splintering of the American Left,.....279

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