San Francisco Reds : Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958

Cherny, Robert W.

University of Illinois Press（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252045837
• DDC分類 324.2794075097946

Full Description

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city's CP from its founding through 1958.

Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, interviews, and memoirs to follow male and female party and union leaders, rank-and-file members, and others. His history reveals why people joined the CP while charting the frequent changes in policy, constant member turnover, and disruptive factionalism that limited party aims and successes. Cherny also follows his subjects through their resignations, expulsions, or other reasons for departure and looks at the CP's influence on their lives in subsequent years.

Vivid and exhaustively researched, San Francisco Reds is a long view account of the personal motivations and activism of an Old Left generation in a West Coast city.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

An Uncertain Beginning, 1919-1930
"Unceasing Factional Struggle," 1925-1930
Prelude to the Popular Front, 1930-1935
The Popular Front, 1934-1941
Life in the Party in the 1930s
The Wartime Popular Front, 1941-1945
The Party in Crisis, 1945-1950
The Crisis Deepens, 1948-1956
The Crisis of 1956-58, the Collapse of the Old Left, and After

Appendix: Biographical Summaries

Notes

Bibliography

Index