Raising Reds

Paul C. Mishler is a labor educator and historian currently teaching at the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

...well researched and thorough. I recommend it for historians interested in the history of radicalism and the left in the United States... historians of the family and of ethnic history would also find it of considerable value. -- Mark McColloch Industrial and Labor Relations Review A compassionate, coherent and cogent narrative of an idealistic cadre of radicals, once upon a time in America, who tried to transform society from the bottom up. Science & Society Raising Reds is a most impressive approach to exploring aspects of radical childraising from the 1920s into the 1950s, the heyday of the Communist Party in the United States -- Ronald D. Cohen, Indiana University Northwest History of Education Quarterly An informative history. -- Joan Wallach Scott Lingua Franca

• I. Introduction II. The Littlest Proletariat: The Family And Education in Communist Theory 1922-1934 III. The Soviet of Children: The Young Pioneers of America and the Communist Children's Movement 1922--1934 IV. "Americans All! Immigrants All!": Children of the Popular Front 1934--45 V. Socialism in One Summer: Radical Summer Camps in the 1930s and 1940s VI. Primers for Revolution: Communist Books for Children VII. Conclusion