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San Francisco reds : communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 /

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city's CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cherny, Robert W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Communists > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Communist Party of the United States of America. > San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.) > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • An uncertain beginning, 1919-1930
  • "Unceasing factional struggle," 1925-1930
  • Prelude to the popular front, 1930-1935
  • The popular front, 1934-1941
  • Life in the party in the 1930s
  • The wartime popular front, 1941-1945
  • The party in crisis, 1945-1950
  • The crisis deepens, 1948-1956
  • The crisis of 1956-1958, the collapse of the old left, and after.