Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party

Vernon L. Pedersen is Professor of History and Head of the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the author of The Communist Party of Maryland, 1919-1957 and the President of the Historians of American Communism (HOAC).James G. Ryan is Professor of Liberal Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author of Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism and Past President of HOAC.Katherine A. S. Sibley is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Saint Joseph’s University, USA. She is the author of Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War and a member of the Executive Council of HOAC.

Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on the CPUSA. It is a must read for anyone that wants to understand the complexity of the CPUSA.

• Table of contents:1. Introduction: “100 Years of American Communism,” Vernon Pedersen (American University of Sharjah, UAE)2. The “Mental Comintern” and the Self-Destructive Tactics of CPUSA, 1945-1958, John Earl Haynes (Congress, USA, ret.) and Harvey Klehr, (Emory University, USA)3. Earl Browder's Changing Conception of the Marxian Revolution, James G. Ryan, (Texas A&M University, USA)4. From Haymarket to Stalin: The Radicalisms of William Z. Foster, Edward Johanningmeier, (University of Delaware, USA)5. Communists and Farmers in the U.S., William C. Pratt, (University of Nebraska, USA)6. Soviet Spies, Russian Trolls, and the U.S. Security State, Katherine A. S. Sibley, (St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, USA)7. The Last Generation of American Communists: Gendered Radicalism in California, Beth Slutsky, (UC Davis, USA)8. A Friendship Re-Forged in Anti-Communism: Herbert Solow, Whittaker Chambers and the Juliet Stuart Poyntz Disappearance, Denise Lynn, (University of Southern Indiana, USA)9. Myth, Memory and the Party Line: Veteran’s Accounts of the Spanish Civil War, Vernon Pedersen, (American University of Sharjah, UAE)10. “For a new anti-fascist, anti-imperialist people’s coalition”: Claudia Jones, American Communism, and the Politics of Possibilities in the Era of Trump, Erik S. McDuffie, (University of Illinois, USA)11. The Party's Over: Former Communist Party Members in the San Francisco Bay Area, Robert W. Cherny, (San Francisco State University, USA)12. Conclusion