caa a22 4500 386365636 CHVBK 20180307111931.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800004035 doi S0021875800004035 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800004035 Sylvers Malcolm Malcolm Sylvers is Associate Professor of United States History at the University of Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università degli Studi, I-30124, Venezia, Italy. American Communists in the Popular Front Period: Reorganization or Disorganization? [Elektronische Daten] [Malcolm Sylvers] The disintegration of the American Communist Party in the Cold War years is normally ascribed to the repression mounted by most liberals together with the McCarthyites, followed by the general crisis of the international communist movement in 1956 provoked by de-Stalinization and the invasion of Hungary. The recent new histories of the CPUSA, which deal primarily with the 1930s, have replaced the view of the Party as an essentially passive agent directed by Moscow and filled with powerhungry leaders and politically-innocent members by one which sees it as composed of politically-conscious ordinary Americans who were active elements in a society in which they were rooted. This new perspective, which accepts communism as a legitimate part of the United States experience, for the most part sees CP developments in the thirties as constructive. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 375-393 0021-8758 23:3<375 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sylvers Malcolm Malcolm Sylvers is Associate Professor of United States History at the University of Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università degli Studi, I-30124, Venezia, Italy NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 375-393 0021-8758 23:3<375 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge