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Faith in the Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 years of the Communist Party USA Kindle Edition

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Faith In The Masses is a collection of 12 essays by historians and activist-scholars on various aspects of the 100-year history of the CPUSA.

The essays in this book demonstrate the Communist Party, USA's century long commitment to equality, workers' rights, peace, and socialism. They highlight the struggle for African American equality, Black liberation, and women's rights, and place athletic, cultural, and literary activities well within the scope of CPUSA work. This book asserts that the CPUSA played a leading role in the social and economic justice struggles of the 20th century.

Included in this collection are three essays that challenge the narrative dominant within traditional academic circles that the CPUSA became a marginal political force post-1956. Faith In The Masses adds the historiography of the CPUSA with a discussion of Communist involvement in the 1960s and 1970s youth and student upsurge, peace, civil rights, and the movement for environmental sustainability.

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"Faith In The Masses...is an ambitious undertaking - almost as ambitious as the work the book describes. These essays cast a wide net aiming to capture the breadth of the Party's efforts to change society over the last century. The celebration is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical."

- Michael Berkowitz, People's World

About the Author

Authors include:

Denise Lynn, Associate Professor of History and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, and author of Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?: Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War.

Tony Pecinovsky, president of the St. Louis Workers Education Society, and author of Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA.

Robert M. Zecker, professor of history at Saint Francis Xavier University inNova Scotia, Canada, author of four books, most recently A Road to Peace and Freedom: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954.

Joel Wendland-Liu, author of The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth, teaches courses on diversity, intercultural competence, immigration,and civil rights at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan.

Timothy V Johnson is the editor of the academic journal American Communist History and serves on the editorial board of Science & Society.

Elisabeth Armstrong is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women andGender at Smith College. She has published two books, Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics and The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08PQTJFR6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ International Publishrs (December 4, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8711 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 484 pages

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- #745 in Historical Essays (Kindle Store)
- #1,119 in Labor & Industrial Economic Relations (Kindle Store)

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Tony Pecinovsky is the president of the St. Louis Workers' Education Society (WES), a 501c3 non-profit organization. His articles have been published in Black Perspectives, People's World, St. Louis Labor Tribune, Alternet, Shelterforce, Political Affairs, Z-Magazine, and American Communist History, among other publications. He is the author of "The Cancer Of Colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker, 1944-1946," "Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA" and editor of "Faith In The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA." He has appeared on C-SPAN Book TV, regularly speaks on college and university campuses and at academic and activist conferences (including the Organization of American Historians, the Working Class Studies Association, Labor Notes, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, and the International Labor Communications Association). He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri and loves cats.