A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States: Volume VI The Yanks Are Not Coming, 1939-1941

by ABC-CLIO, Bernard K. Johnpoll

Overview

This is the sixth in an eight-volume documentary history of the Communist Party of the United States of America. This landmark collection by a noted authority on the American Left is the result of forty years of searching for pamphlets, proclamations, manifestos, party reports, and minutes of meetings in bookstores and archives all over the country. Facsimilies of the originals are presented whenever possible. Brief introductions and critical notes and explanations about the documents are provided with each of these rare and hard-to-find materials.

Volume VI begins with a short introduction describing the documentary history and pointing to important sources of information about the Communist Party of the United States. Documents are arranged chronologically and cover an important period in American and during the early years of World War II, the years from 1939 to 1941. The documents include speeches, resolutions, and various reports and analyses about the coming war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313288111
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/30/1994
Pages:	1144
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.60(d)

About the Author

BERNARD K. JOHNPOLL has been a merchant seaman (1934-1943), a newspaper reporter and editor in Pittsburgh, Boston, and New York (1944-1963) and a professor of political science (1962-1981). Professor Johnppll earned a bachelor of arts degree at Boston University, a master of arts degree at Rutgers University, and a doctor of philosophy degree at the State University at Albany. He is the author or editor of several Greenwood Press books, including The League for Industrial Democracy: A Documentary History (editor, 1980), An Impossible Dream: Rise and Demise of the American Left (1981), Biographical Dictionary of the American Left (1986), and Pacifists Progress: Norman Thomas and the Decline of American Socialism (1987).