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EBOOK Cause That Failed:Communism in American Political Life
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199878987
EAN: FF96D3DCEB
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Stron: 384
Data wydania: 1990
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From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians,        workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party        has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential        candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of        American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline,        it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning.In The Cause that Failed, Lewy        offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John        Reed to the advent of glasnost. He traces its origins and development, underscoring        how its devotion to Moscow and inflexible Marxist ideology isolated it from the        American scene--in fact, most of its first members were Eastern European immigrants.          During the left wing tide of the Depression the Communist Party reached the peak of        its influence, as it joined labor unions and progressive organizations in a "e;Popular        Front."e; But Lewy reveals the deceptive, antidemocratic, self-defeating tactics the        Communists pursued even then, as they manipulated front organizations, seized        control of political parties, peace groups, and labor unions, and enforced political        conformity among members and sympathizers. He follows the Party through its        inexorable decline in the succeeding decades, up to its current position as one of        the last Stalinist parties left in a world of glasnost and perestroika.Lewy also        provides a sharply critical discussion of the encounter between Communism and        liberal and mainstream America. He examines such groups as the ACLU and SANE,        arguing that the years when these organizations were tolerant toward Communists were        also the times when they neglected their original purpose in favor of partisan        causes. He shows how Communists have manipulated well-meaning citizens in the peace        movement and in Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign. One of the        great ills Americans suffer, he writes, is an overreaction to McCarthyism--an        atmosphere of anti-anticommunism--which blinds them to the wrongs wrought by        international Communism and makes them ignore the deceptive role played by the        American Communist Party, which even today still keeps eighty percent of its        membership secret.The Cause that Failed presents an intensively researched and        trenchantly argued historical analysis of Communism in America. Guenter Lewy's        provocative account provides a new understanding of Communism's machinations in U.S.          politics, and how Americans from across the political spectrum have responded to its        challenge.

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