Roots of American Communism

Taylor & Francis

The Roots of American CommunismAuthor(s): Theodore Draper\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138538351, 978-1138538351\nSynopsis\nIn this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist Party in America--from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy \""was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power,\"" a fact that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, American Communism and Soviet Russia.\n\nIn his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: \""It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually been all.