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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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