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The Soviet World of American Communism

(Annals of Communism)

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The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political, and historical importance.

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Hardcover, 416 pages
Published February 17th 1998 by Yale University Press (first published February 1st 1998)
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Strange book. Largely helpful for helping understand what can be found in the Moscow archives (and how), but its own narrative is an often lurid naming of names that misses a richer, more complicated story because "communism is bad, mmkay?" ...more
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Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University.

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Annals of Communism (1 - 10 of 31 books)
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  • The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36
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