The Many Worlds of American Communism
By (Author) Joshua Morris
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
8th September 2022
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
335.430973
Hardback
528
Width 157mm, Height 238mm, Spine 36mm
885g
This book explores the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author argues that in order to effectively understand a social movement, it is necessary to take an approach that differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the movement's participants. By exploring the political, community, and labor dimensions of American communism, the author helps convey the complex nature of social movements and the various ways they attempted to create agency in their society.
Joshua Morris teaches history at Grand Valley State University.