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American Communism and Soviet Russia
(Communism in American Life)
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This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to completion what the author describes as the essence of the relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the first decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. The outpouring of new archive materials makes it plain that Draper's premise is direct and to the point: The communist movement "was transform
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Paperback, 626 pages
Published
November 30th 2003
by Routledge
(first published May 28th 1960)
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Professor Harvey Klehr has chosen to discuss Theodore Draper’s
American Communism and Soviet Russia
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"...This book set the parameters of the way that I and a lot of other people came to understand how the Communist Party had operated in America and it helped us to understand why it had failed so miserably.
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"...This book set the parameters of the way that I and a lot of other people came to understand how the Communist Party had operated in America and it helped us to understand why it had failed so miserably.
The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interview... ...more
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Theodore H. "Ted" Draper was an American historian and political writer. Draper is best known for the 14 books he completed during his life, including work regarded as seminal on the formative period of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for
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