Volume 45, Number 11 · June 25, 1998
Keeping the Faith
By Sam Tanenhaus
The Soviet World of American Communism
by Harvey Klehr, by John Earl Haynes, by Kyrill M. Anderson
Yale University Press, 378 pp., $35.00
The Soviet World of American Communism is the first important study of the relations between American Communists and the USSR since Theodore Draper's American Communism and Soviet Russia, published in 1960.[1] It is also in effect a continuation of that earlier work. Draper's history covered the period that ended with the expulsion of the dissident Communist Jay Lovestone and his followers from the American Party in 1929. He was able to draw on some thousand pages recording the minutes of conferences held by the American Party's inner core of leadership.[2] In their new book, two American scholars, Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes, have collaborated with a Russian scholar, Kyrill M. Anderson, to comb through the far more copious files, lodged in Moscow, of the Communist International (or Comintern), the administrative body set up by Lenin to direct the activities of national Communist parties outside the Soviet Union.
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