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In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist Party in America from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as alegal entity in the 1920s Theodore Draper traces the native and foreignstrains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies andsecrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in itsinfancy was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to theAmerican appendage of a Russian revolutionary power a fact that Draperdevelops in his succeeding volume American Communism and Soviet Russia.In his special prescient way Theodore Draper himself had the final words onAmerican Communism It is like a museum of radical politics. In its variousstages it has virtually been all things to all men.... There are many ways oftrying to understand such a movement but the first task is historical. In somerespects there is no other way to understand it or at least to avoidseriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends to be static onesided or unbalanced.Draper correctly notes that the formative period of the American Communistmovement has remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part thereasons for this are that the Communist movement although a child of the Westgrew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues this chapter with deepappreciation for the fact that communism was not something that happened justin Russia but also in the United States. This is a must read for scholars andlaypersons alike. «
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