Communists In Closets

Author : Bettina Aptheker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000650685
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communists in Closets written by Bettina Aptheker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.

Author : Bernard Livingston
Publisher : Waverly Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780961568108
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closet Red written by Bernard Livingston and published by Waverly Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025205671X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Reds written by Robert W. Cherny and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Things You Should Know about Communism and Education written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031131274
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World written by Francisca de Haan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women’s rights worldwide.

Author : Irving Howe
Publisher : New York : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Communist Party written by Irving Howe and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1962 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Communism in the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 154162002X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reds written by Maurice Isserman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Communist Party USA, revealing how its members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR After generations in the shadows, socialism is making headlines in the United States, following the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and the election of several democratic socialists to Congress. Today’s leftists hail from a long lineage of anti-capitalist activists in the United States, yet the true legacy and lessons of their most radical and controversial forebears, the American Communists, remain little understood. ​ In Reds, historian Maurice Isserman focuses on the deeply contradictory nature of the history of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), a movement that attracted egalitarian idealists and bred authoritarian zealots. Founded in 1919, the CPUSA fought for a just society in America: members organized powerful industrial unions, protested racism, and moved the nation left. At the same time, Communists maintained unwavering faith in the USSR’s claims to be a democratic workers’ state and came to be regarded as agents of a hostile foreign power. Following Nikita Khrushchev’s revelation of Joseph Stalin’s crimes, however, doubt in Soviet leadership erupted within the CPUSA, leading to the organization’s decline into political irrelevance. This is the balanced and definitive account of an essential chapter in the history of radical politics in the United States.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Communism in the U.S.A. written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vernon L. Pedersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135771
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party written by Vernon L. Pedersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the 'third party' movements in American history, none have been as controversial as the Communist Party of the United States of America. Although denounced as a tool of the Soviet Union, accused of espionage and charged with advocating the revolutionary overthrow of the American government, before WWII it had been an accepted part of the political landscape. This collection offers an intriguing insight into this controversial political party in light of the Moscow archives that were made accessible after the end of the Cold War. This collection of original essays explores new aspects in the history of American Communism, drawing on a range of documents from Moscow and Eastern Europe. Examining traditional subjects in the light of new evidence, the essays cover a range of topics including party leaders, espionage, campaigns against racism, the Spanish Civil War, communism and gender, the fate of members after the McCarthy era and ways in which Communists became Anti-Communists.