1. Reference and primary sources
- Beecher, Jonathan, and Fomichev, Valerii N., “French Socialism in Lenin's and Stalin's Moscow: David Riazanov and the French Archive of the Marx-Engels Institute,” Journal of Modern History, 78, no. 1 (2006), 119–43
- Blouin, Francis X., and Rosenberg, William G., eds., Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006). Contents include: Ziva Galili, Archives and historical writing: the case of the Menshevik Party in 1917; Abby Smith, Russian history: is it in the archives?; Sergy Yekelchyk, Archiving heteroglossia: writing reports and controlling mass culture under Stalin; Jeffrey Burds, Ethnicity, memory, and violence: reflections on special problems in Soviet and East European archives
- Eckart, Rainer, Antitotalitärer Widerstand und Kommunistische Repression (Leipzig, Germany: Forum Verlag, 2006). Anti-communist movements, Germany (East), bibliography
- Filardo, Peter Meyer, “American communism and anti-communism,” American Communist History, 5, no. 1 (2006), 103–13. Review of John Earl Haynes’ online bibliography, American Communism and Anti-Communism: A Historian's Bibliography and Guide to the Literature
- Filardo, Peter Meyer, “Communist history: an annual bibliography (2005),” American Communist History, 5, no. 2 (2006), 193–214
- Frohnen, Bruce, Beer, Jeremy, and Nelson, Jeffrey O., American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2006)
- Hanff, Peter E., “Social action collections, the Meiklejohn Institute archives, and the Bancroft Library,” American Communist History, 5, no. 2 (2006), 169–72
- Lebina, Nataliia Borisovna, Entsiklopediia Banal’nostei: Sovetskaia Povsednevnost: Kontury, Simvoli, Znaki (St Peterburg, Russia: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2006). Descriptors include: communism and society, dictionaries
- Lester, Robert, ed., FBI Files on the Amerasia Affair (Bethesda, MD: UPA collection from LexisNexis, 2006). Microfilm
- Manwaring, Kathleen, “Radicalism collections in Syracuse University Library,” American Communist History, 5, no. 2 (2006), 173–92
- Pak, B. D. SSSR, Komintern i Koreiskoe Osvoboditel’noe Dvizhenie, 1918–1925: Ocherki, Dokumenty, Materially (Moscow: In-t vostokovedeniia RAN, 2006). Communism, Korea, sources
- Vollgraf, Carl-Erich, and Sperl, Richard, Die Marx-Engels-Werkausgaben in der UdSSR und DDR (1945–1968): Dokumentation auf der Suche nach der SPD-Bibliothek 1945/46, Marx-Dokumente aus dem Familienarchiv Longuet, Briefe von Roman Rosdolsky an Karl Korsch (1950–54) (Berlin: Argument, 2006)
2. United States of America
Monographs : biographical
- Anthony, David Henry, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior (New York: New York University Press, 2006)
- Aptheker, Bettina, Intimate Politics: How I Grew up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006)
- Chambers, Jonathan L., Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923–1937 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006)
- Foner, Moe, Moe Foner (New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2006). Internet resource, computer file, sound recording
- Hayden, Tom, Flacks, Richard, and Aronowitz, Stanley, Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006)
- Horne, Gerald, The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006)
- Hunt, Andrew E., David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary (New York: New York University Press, 2006)
- MacPherson, Myra, All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone (New York: Scribner, 2006)
- Mitford, Jessica, and Sussman, Peter Y., Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
- Nelson, Claire Nee, “Louise Thompson Patterson and the southern roots of the Popular Front,” in: Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006)
- Schiff, David, “Against the currents of the day. A red but no communist: Varèse in the 1930s and 40s,” in: Felix Meyer, ed., Edgard Varèse: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2006)
- Scott, Phil, Hemingway's Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 (Camden, ME: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press (McGraw-Hill), 2006). “Outraged by the needless deaths, novelist and Key West resident Ernest Hemingway … published a vehement protest essay in New Masses, a communist journal, and it was one factor landing him on the FBI's watch list years later … .”
- Wicker, Tom, Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006)
- Yager, Edward M., Ronald Reagan's Journey: Democrat to Republican (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Chapter 2, “The communist threat.”
Monographs : historical
- Abrams, Nathan, Commentary Magazine 1945–59: A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion (Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006)
- Anreus, Alejandro, Linden, Diana L., and Weinberg, Jonathan, eds, The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006). Includes: Patricia Hills, Art and politics in the popular front: the union work and social realism of Philip Evergood; Andrew Hemingway, Between Zhdanovism and 57th Street: artists and the CPUSA, 1945–1956
- Bernstein, David E., The Red Menace Revisited (Arlington, VA: George Mason University School of Law, 2006)
- Feurer, Rosemary, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006)
- Gier, Jaclyn J., and Mercier, Laurie, eds., Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Contents include: Ellen Baker, I hate to be calling her a wife now: women and men in the Salt of the Earth strike, 1950–1952; Mercedes Steedman, Godless communists and faithful wives, gender relations and the Cold War: mine mill and the 1958 strike against the International Nickel Company
- Hammond, Andrew, ed., Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (London: Routledge, 2006). Includes: M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga, The Reds and the Blacks; Alan Wald, Marxist literary resistance to the Cold War
- Haynes, John Earl, “Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party,” in: Richard Sisson, and Christian K. Zacher, eds, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)
- Haynes, John Earl, and Klehr, Harvey, Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- Hollander, Paul, The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2006)
- Hudelson, Richard, and Ross, Carl, By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Includes a history of the CPUSA in Duluth
- Jacobson, Marion S., “From communism to Yiddishism: the reinvention of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus of New York City,” in: Karen Ahlquist, ed., Chorus and Community (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006)
- Johnson, David K., The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
- Jolly, Kenneth S., Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964–1970 (New York: Routledge, 2006). Contents include: Black power: the black liberators, black nationalists, Dubois club …; Black power challenged: the Cold War, the FBI and the communist threat
- Kalaidjian, Walter B., The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
- Kutulas, Judy, The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930–1960 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Chapter 3, Holding us all together: the ACLU, the Nazi–Soviet pact, and anticommunism, 1939–1941
- Leggett, Susan C., “Communication and contradiction: living history and the sport pages of the Daily Worker,” in: Lee Artz, ed., Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point is to Change It (New York: P. Lang, 2006)
- Machan, Tibor R., and Hook, Sidney, “Appendix: A dialogue on Marxism by Sidney Hook and Tibor Machan,” in: Revisiting Marxism: A Bourgeois Reassessment (Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2006)
- Martin, Lawrence H., “The revolutionist: historical context and political ideology,” in: Rena Sanderson, ed., Hemingway's Italy: New Perspectives (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006). Hemingway's treatment of communism
- Maus, Derek C., Living Through the Red Scare (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2006)
- Nelson, Claire Nee, “Louise Thompson Patterson and the southern roots of the Popular Front,” in: Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006)
- Nelson, Scott Reynolds, “Communist strongman,” in: Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Osgood, Kenneth Alan, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 2006)
- Peddie, Ian, ed., The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006). Contents include: John Street, The pop star as politician: from Belafonte to Bono, from creativity to conscience; James Smethurst, Everyday people: popular music, race and the articulation and formation of class identity in the United States
- Safer, Elaine B., Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006). Contains the chapter “I married a communist: a grave misfortune replete with farce.”
- Schwartz, Stephen, Is It Good for the Jews? The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby (New York: Doubleday, 2006). Discusses the role of Trotskyism and anti-Stalinist radicalism in the history of Jewish neoconservatism
- Shawki, Ahmed, Black Liberation and Socialism (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2006). Contains the chapter “The socialist, communist, and Trotskyist parties.”
- Sito, Tom, “The War of Hollywood and the Blacklist: 1945–1953,” in: Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006)
- Steedman, Mercedes, “Godless communists and faithful wives, gender relations and the Cold War: mine mill and the 1958 strike against the International Nickel Company,” in: Jaclyn J. Gier, ed., Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Triece, Mary Eleanor, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006)
- Yerkes, Andrew C., Twentieth-Century Americanism: Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Fiction (London: Routledge, 2006)
Serials
- Adamowski, T. H., “Demoralizing liberalism: Lionel Trilling, Leslie Fiedler, and Norman Mailer,” University of Toronto Quarterly, 75, no. 3 (2006), 883–904
- Alwood, Edward, “CBS correspondent Winston Burdett and his decision to become a government witness in the Age of McCarthyism,” American Communist History, 5, no. 2 (2006), 153–67
- Baldwin, Belinda, “L.A., 1/1/67: the Black Cat Riots,” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 13, no. 2 (March/April 2006), 28–30. Includes discussion of Mattachine Society, etc
- Beihlarz, Peter, “Ends and rebirths: an interview with Daniel Bell,” Thesis Eleven, 85 (May 2006), 93–103
- Bell, Jonathan, “Social democracy and the rise of the Democratic Party in California, 1950–1964,” The Historical Journal, 49, no. 2 (2006), 497–524
- Bergin, Cathy, “Race/class politics: The Liberator, 1929–1934,” Race and Class, 47, no. 4 (2006), 86–104
- Buhle, Paul, “Toward the understanding of the visual vernacular: radicalism in comics and cartoons,” Rethinking Marxism, 18, no. 3 (2006), 367–81. IWW
- Cenckiewicz, Slawomir, “Polscy agenci Moskwy w USA” [“Moscow's Polish agents in the USA”], Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance (Poland), (March/April 2006), 36–58. Discusses Boleslaw “Bill” Gebert, a founding member of the CPUSA, among others
- Chapman, Michael E., “Pro-Franco anti-communism: Ellery Sedgwick and the Atlantic Monthly,” Journal of Contemporary History, 41, no. 4 (2006), 641–62
- Cooper, Marc, “Dorothy Ray Healey, Activist,” Z Magazine, 9, no. 9 (September 2006), 3
- Crist, Elizabeth B., “Mutual responses in the midst of an era: Aaron Copland's The Tender Land and Leonard Bernstein's Candide,” Journal of Musicology, 23, no. 4 (2006), 485–527. McCarthy era
- Cull, Nicholas J., “Was Captain Black really Red? The TV science fiction of Gerry Anderson in its Cold War context,” Media History, 12, no. 2 (2006), 193–207
- Danielson, Leilah, “Christianity, dissent, and the Cold War: A. J. Muste's challenge to realism and U.S. Empire,” Diplomatic History, 30, no. 4 (2006), 645–69
- Darlington, Ralph, “Agitator theory of strikes re-evaluated,” Labor History, 47, no. 4 (2006), 485–510
- D’Emilio, John, “Remembering Bayard Rustin,” Magazine of History, 20, no. 2 (2006), 12–14
- Engerman, David C., “John Dewey and the Soviet Union: pragmatism meets revolution,” Modern Intellectual History, 3, no. 1 (2006), 33–63
- Endres, David J., “An international dimension to American anticommunism: mission awareness and global consciousness in the Catholic students’ mission crusade, 1935–1955,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (2006), 89–108
- Ewing, Marilyn M., “Gotta dance! Structure, corruption, and syphilis in Singin’ in the Rain,” Journal of Popular Film & Television, 34, no. 1 (2006), 12–23. Some discussion of Gene Kelly's politics and the political climate
- Fine, Gary Alan, “An isolationist blacklist? Lillian Gish and the America First Committee,” Theatre Survey, 47, no. 2 (2006), 283–8
- Finnegan, Jim, “Edwin Rolfe's historical witness to the spectacle of McCarthyism,” College Literature, 33, no. 3 (2006), 135–47
- Fischer, Nick, “The founders of American anti-communism,” American Communist History, 5, no. 1 (2006), 67–101
- Hensley, Melissa Anne, “Feminine virtue and feminist fervor: the impact of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the 1930s,” Affilia, 21, no. 2 (2006), 146–57
- Hogsbjerg, Christian, “Beyond the boundary of Leninism? CLR James and 1956,” Revolutionary History, 9, no. 3 (2006)
- Hurewitz, Daniel, “Goody-goodies, sissies, and long-hairs,” Journal of Urban History, 33, no. 1 (2006), 26–50. “Examines how allegations of vice intersected with late 1930s anxieties about communism and sexual deviance to mobilize the first successful recall of a major urban mayor.”
- Huber, Patrick, “Red necks and red bandanas: Appalachian coal miners and the coloring of union identity, 1912–1936,” Western Folklore, 65, no. 1/2 (2006), 195–210
- Issel, William, “Still potentially dangerous in some quarters: Sylvester Andriano, catholic action, and un-American activities in California,” Pacific Historical Review, 725, no. 2 (2006), 231–70
- Katz, Dovid, “Proletpen and American Yiddish poetry: how the left was excluded from the Yiddish canon,” Jewish Currents, November/December (2006), 12–6
- La Botz, Dan, “American slackers in the Mexican Revolution: international proletarian politics in the midst of a national revolution,” The Americas, 62, no. 4 (2006), 563–90. Includes Lewis Fraina and Bertram Wolfe
- Lane, James B., “Triumph over travail: the Katherine Hyndman story,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 18, no. 1 (2006), 36–41. Examines the life of Katherine Hyndman, a communist and social activist in Indiana from the 1930s through the 1970s
- Leab, Daniel, “The American government and the filming of George Orwell's Animal Farm in the 1950s,” Media History, 12, no. 2 (2006), 133–55
- Lichtman, Robert M., “J. B. Matthews and the counter-subversives: names as a political and financial resource in the McCarthy era,” American Communist History, 5, no. 1 (2006), 1–36
- Lieberman, Robbie, “Remembering Dorothy Healey: an activist with vision,” Against the Current, 21, no. 5 (November 2006), 44
- Leshne, Carla, “The Film & Photo League of San Francisco,” Film History, 18, no. 4 (2006), 361–73
- Mack, Dwayne, “Hazel Scott: a career curtailed,” Journal of African American History, 91, no. 2 (2006), 153–70
- Mack, Kenneth W., “Law and mass politics in the making of the civil rights lawyer, 1931–1941,” Journal of American History, 93 (2006), 37–62. International Labor Defense
- MacLean, Nancy, “Gender is powerful: the long reach of feminism,” Magazine of History, 20, no. 5 (2006), 19–23. Congress of American Women
- Mage, Shane, “The discussion of the crisis of Stalinism at the recent NEC meeting (a comment on the US left and 1956),” Revolutionary History, 9, no. 3 (2006)
- Marat, Michelle, “Eleanor Roosevelt, liberalism, and Israel,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 24, no. 3 (2006), 58–89. Includes a brief discussion of Joseph Lash
- Melamid, Jodi, “W. E. B. Du Bois's unAmerican end,” African American Review, 40, no. 3 (2006), 533–50
- Merrill, Dennis, “The Truman doctrine: containing communism and modernity,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36, no. 1 (2006), 27–37
- Murrell, Gary, “Herbert Aptheker's unity of theory and practice in the Communist Party USA: on the last night, and during the first two decades,” Science & Society, 70, no. 1 (2006), 98–118
- O’Connor, David L., “The Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation: American Catholic anti-communism and its limits,” American Communist History, 5, no. 1 (2006), 37–66
- Ortiz, Stephen R., “Rethinking the bonus march: federal bonus policy, the veterans of foreign wars, and the origins of a protest movement,” Journal of Policy History, 18, no. 3 (2006), 275–303. Includes discussion of VFW's attitude to communist participation
- Palmer, Allen W., “The Smith–Mundt Act's ban on domestic propaganda: an analysis of the Cold War statute limiting access to public diplomacy,” Communication Law and Policy, 11, no. 1 (2006), 1–34
- Parascandola, Louis J., “Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood: a radical counterpoint to progressivism,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 30, no. 1 (2006), 7–18
- Relyea, Sarah, “The vanguard of modernity: Richard Wright's The Outsider,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 48, no. 3 (2006), 187–219
- Romano, Carlin, “Cold-War cultural tactics should be a hot topic,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 52, no. 26 (3 March 2006), B9. Reviews tactics of the Congress For Cultural Freedom as a model for the War on Terror
- Rosier, Paul C., “They are ancestral homelands: race, place, and politics in Cold War Native America, 1945–1961,” Journal of American History, 92, no. 4 (2006), 1300–26. The anti-communist discourse of the Red Scare contributed to federal attempts to terminate reservations and eliminate tribal sovereignty in the name of ethnic integration
- Ruotsila, Markku, “Neoconservatism prefigured: the Social Democratic League of America and the anticommunists of the Anglo-American Right, 1917–21,” Journal of American Studies, 40, no. 2 (2006), 327–45
- Scott, Jonathan, “Advanced, repressed, and popular: Langston Hughes during the Cold War,” College Literature, 33, no. 2 (2006), 30–51
- Shank, William, “A memoir of a music librarian,” Notes, 63, no. 1 (2006), 9–12. A conscientious objector interviewed for a Radio Free Europe job, later investigated as a possible red
- Spence, Richard B., “Senator William E. Borah: target of Soviet and anti-Soviet intrigue, 1922–1929,” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 19, no. 1 (2006), 134–55. “Examines whether William Borah, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the 1920s, was a Soviet spy … .”
- Stevens, Jason W., “Insurrection and Depression-era politics in Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935),” Literature/Film Quarterly, 34, no. 3 (2006), 176–202
- Storrs, Landon, “Left-feminism, the consumer movement, and red scare politics in the United States, 1935–1960,” Journal of Women's History, 18, no. 3 (2006), 40–67
- Vials, Chris, “The Popular Front in the American century: Life Magazine, Margaret Bourke- White, and consumer realism, 1936–1941,” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 16, no. 1 (2006), 74–102
- Wald, Alan, “The legacy of the Cultural Front: an interview with Alan Wald,” Political Affairs, 25 July 2006
- Wilkins, Fanon Che, “Beyond Bandung: the critical nationalism of Lorraine Hansberry, 1950–1965,” Radical History Review, 95 (2006), 191–210
- Wolf, Sherry, “Lessons of COINTELPRO: spies, lies, and war,” International Socialist Review, no. 49 (September 2006), 53–60
Dissertations and theses
- Baar, Kevyn, “Investigating Broadway: the House Committee on Un-American Activities meets members of the New York theatre community at the Foley Square Courthouse, August 15–18, 1955,” Ph.D. dissertation, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, CA, 2006
- Bushard, Anthony J., “Fear and loathing in Hollywood: representations of fear, paranoia, and individuality vs. conformity in selected film music of the 1950s (Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann, Leonard Bernstein),” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 2006
- Fein, Gene, “For Christ and country: the Christian Front in New York City, 1938–1951,” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2006
- Gladchuk, John Joseph, “Reticent reds: HUAC, Hollywood, and the evolution of the red menace, 1935–1950,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 2006
- Hartman, Andrew, “Education as Cold War experience: the battle for the American school,” Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 2006
- Helfgott, Isadora Anderson, “Art and the struggle for the American soul: the pursuit of a popular audience for art in America from the Depression to World War II (Anton Refregier),” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2006. “Part I uses the artist Anton Refregier … the principle of changing the social basis of art appreciation outshone political commitments to the Communist Party or the New Deal government … .”
- Ingram, Eric Taylor, “The company they kept: the anti-communist attacks on public school teachers in New York City, 1949–1953,” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College, 2006
- Jackson, Patrick D., “Communist, preacher, teacher, poet: will the real Don West please stand up?,” M.A. thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2006
- Lewis, Joes A., “Youth against fascism: the construction of communist youth identity in Britain and the United States,” Ph.D. dissertation, Central Michigan University, 2006
- Link, Daniel J., “Every day was a battle: liberal anticommunism in Cold War New York, 1944–1956,” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 2006. Liberal Party focus
- Marshall, Ian H., “Rhetorics of whiteness: race, class and the development of early American modernism (Ernest Hemingway, Clifford Odets, John Steinbeck, Mike Gold, William Attaway),” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2006
- Morse, Peter Harwood, Jr., “Wobbly identities: race, gender, and radical industrial unionists in the United States, 1900–1920,” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2006
- Murley, David Edmund, “Judicial neglect: the Supreme Court and the red scare, 1949–1961,” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 2005
- Penner, James Lon, “Pinks, pansies and punks: the rhetoric of masculinity and American literary culture from the Depression to the sexual revolution,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 2005
- Rozendal, Michael Arend, “On the line: a reconsideration of 1930s modernist and proletarian radicalism,” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006
- Trutor, Clayton J., “There is a great country: the Soviet Union in American communist children's literature, 1925–35,” M.A. thesis, University of Vermont, 2006
Conference materials
- Ament, Suzanne, “Cultural commitments to broadcasting culture: the case of Radio Liberty,” paper presented at the Society for the History of American Foreign Policy Annual Conference, 23–25 June 2006
- Black Radicalism and Communism in the Twentieth Century. OAH, 2006. Contents: Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University, “A lost opportunity to save the soul of America: the red scare and the division of civil rights from peace”; Minkah Makalani, Rutgers University, “Black radical beginnings”; Rachel Peterson, University of Chicago, “African American writers, communism and anticommunism: trajectories of commitment
- Charles, Douglas, Marietta College, “The FBI and gay subversion: the case of the Mattachine Society,” OAH1 1 OAH = Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, 19–22 April 2006. , 2006
- Cumberbatch, Prudence, CUNY Brooklyn College, “Religion, race, and class: communism and the black church in 1930s Baltimore,” OAH, 2006
- Ekbladh, David, “Finding liberalism's spine: modernization to meet the challenges of totalitarianism, 1934–1960,” paper presented at the Society for the History of American Foreign Policy Annual Conference, 23–25 June 2006
- Haynes, John Earl, and Klehr, Harvey, “The historiography of Soviet espionage and American communism: from separate to converging paths,” paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006. Available online at: http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page101.html
- Lieberman, Robbie, “A lost opportunity to ‘save the soul of America’: the red scare and the division of civil rights from peace,” OAH, 2006
- Makalani, Minkah, “Black radical beginnings,” OAH, 2006
- McDuffie, Erik, “Miss Moore is well known to negro women everywhere …: the challenges of excavating and writing on “Queen Mother” Audley Moore's career in the American Communist Party,” OAH, 2006
- Nickerson, Michelle M., University of Texas at Dallas, “Reading up on reds: women, anti-communism, and postwar conservative intellectuals,” American Historical Association, 2006
- Peterson, Rachel, Washington State University, Pullman, “African American writers, communism and anticommunism: trajectories of commitment,” OAH, 2006
- Rapp, Anne, DePaul University, “Civil rights and social citizenship: Charlotta Bass and post-war progressivism, 1947–1950,” OAH, 2006
- Ryan, James, Texas A&M University, “Tinkering with totalitarianism: the American Communist Party's attempts at liberalization, 1934–1949,” paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006
- Rzeszutek, Sara, Rutgers University, “We were not fighting for freedom alone: international solidarity and the Southern Negro Youth Congress, 1945–1946,” OAH, 2006
- Simson, William, Georgia Perimeter College, “Removing reds from the old red scare: Southern Appalachian Industrial Society and the maintenance of an industrial peace during the interwar years,” North American Labor History Conference, 2006
- Stoner, John, “Modernization and African labor: the AFL-CIO, Ghana and neutralism, 1955–1963,” OAH, 2006
- The Cold War: An Eyewitness Perspective. A Public Symposium sponsored/hosted by the National Archives, Washington, DC, 21 October 2006. Contents include: Session 1: “Cold War ideologies: the struggle for hearts and minds” (Allen Weinstein, Moderator, Ronald Radosh, and Ellen Schrecker); Session 4: “Cold War espionage: through the looking glass” (Allen Weinstein, Moderator, Herb Romerstein, Timothy Naftali, Ronald Radosh, Victor Navasky, Francis Gary Powers Jr., and Peter Earnest)
- Uhlmann, Jennifer, University of California Los Angeles, “The communist civil rights movement,” OAH, 2006
- Walcher, Dustin, “Yankee union abroad: the AFL-CIO's liberal mission in Argentina, 1958–1966,” paper presented at the Society for the History of American Foreign Policy Annual Conference, 23–25 June 2006
- Waters, Robert, and Daniels, Gordon, “The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana,” paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006
- Williams, Elizabeth, LaRoche College, “Anti-communist liberals in McCarthy-era Pittsburgh: Judge Michal A. Musmanno and Msgr. Charles Owen Rice,” North American Labor History Conference, 2006
- Zaragosa, Vargas, University of California Santa Barbara, “Fighters for social justice, democracy, and peace: Mexican American industrial unionists in the Cold War years,” OAH, 2006
- Zeitz, Joshua, Cambridge University, “First Saturdays and final days: the Catholic–Fundamentalist alliance against communism,” OAH, 2006
3. Other countries
Monographs: biographical
- Bambery, Chris, A Rebel's Guide to Gramsci (London: Bookmarks, 2006)
- Bandyopadhyaya Dipendranatha, Riportaja (Kalakata, India: Ekusa Sataka, 2006)
- Barth, Bernd-Rainer, and Schweizer, Werner, Der Fall Noel Field: Asyl in Ungarn 1954–1957 [The Case of Noel Field: Asylum in Hungary 1954–1957] (Berlin: BasisDruck, 2006)
- Carvalho, Miguel, Álvaro Cunhal, Intimo e Pessoal: Um Dicionário Afectivo (Porto, Portugal: Campo das Letras, 2006)
- Chauvin, Jean-René, Un Trotskiste dans l’Enfer Nazi: Mauthausen–Auschwitz–Buchenwald, 1943–1945 (Paris: Syllepse, 2006)
- Chen, Qingquan, Zai Zhong Gong Gao Ceng 50 Nian: Lu Dingyi Chuan qi Ren Sheng (Beijing: Ren Min Chu Ban She, 2006)
- Choonara, Esma, A Rebel's Guide to Trotsky (London: Bookmarks, 2006)
- Cupull, Adys, and Gonzalez, Frolian, Julio Antonio Mella en Medio del Fuego: un Asesinato en México (Ciudad de La Habana, Mexico: Casa Editora Abril, 2006)
- Dawes, Greg, Verses Against the Darkness: Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006)
- Fava, Athos, Memoria Militante: Primer Parte (Argentina: s.n., 2006)
- Gee, Kenneth, Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite (Leichhardt, Australia: Desert Pea Press, 2006)
- Girault, Jacques, and Lecherbonnier, Bernard, Aimé Césaire, un Poète dans le Siècle (Paris: Harmattan, 2006)
- Gu, Baozi, and Du, Xiuxian, Kua Chu Zhongnan Hai: Hong Qiang Nei Zhongguo Zheng Yao Mi Wen (Beijing: Zhongguo Fu Nü Chu Ban She, 2006). Anecdotes about leading Chinese communists
- Guardia, Sara Beatriz, José Carlos Mariátegui: una Visión de Género (Lima, Peru: Librería Editorial Minerva, 2006)
- Huang, Zheng, Wang Guangmei Fang Tan Lu = Wangguangmei Fangtanlu (Beijing: Zhong Yang Wen Xian Chu Ban She, 2006)
- Jones, Steve, Antonio Gramsci (London: Routledge, 2006)
- Kinnamon, Kenneth, Richard Wright: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Commentary, 1983–2003 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006)
- Kowalski, Ronald I., European Communism 1848–1991 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Laqueur, Walter, “Serfaty, Curiel, and the dilemma of the Jewish communists,” in: Dying for Jerusalem: The Past, Present and Future of the Holiest City (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2006)
- Levesque, Andree, and Klein, Yvonne M., Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades (Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
- Li, Liangming, and Zhong, Detao, Yun Daiying Nian Pu (Wuhan Shi: Hua Zhong Shi Fan Da Xue Chu Ban She, 2006)
- Li, Yaoyu, Yi ge Zhongguo Ge Ming Qin Li Zhe De Si Ren Ji Lu (Beijing: Dang Dai Zhongguo Chu Ban She, 2006)
- Ling, Hui, Li, Shulin, and Jing, Liangchao, Li Liuru Yu Liu Shi Nian De Bian Qian (Beijing: Zhongguo Jian Cha Chu Ban She, 2006)
- Liu, Lian, “The man who molded Mao: Yang Changji and the first generation of Chinese communists,” Modern China, 32, no. 4 (2006), 483–512
- Marie, Jean-Jacques, Trotsky: Révolutionnaire sans Frontières (Paris: Payot, 2006)
- McDermott, Kevin, Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Munis, Vidya, In Retrospect: War-time Memories and Thoughts on Women's Movement (Kolkata, India: Manisha Granthalaya, 2006). India
- O’Connor, Kevin, Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006)
- Pons, Silvio, Berlinguer e la Fine del Comunismo (Torino, Italy: G. Einaudi, 2006)
- Schutrumpf, Jorn, Rosa Luxemburg, oder, der Preis der Freiheit (Berlin: Dietz, 2006)
- Shore, Marci, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006)
- Suparman. Tragedi 1965: Dari Pulau Buru Sampai ke Mekah: Sebuah Catatan (Ujungberung, Bandung, Indonesia: Nuansa, 2006). The author's account of life as a political prisoner during the Orde Baru regime, related to his involvement in the 1965 coup d’etat attempted by the Indonesian Communist Party
- Vatlin, A. Iu., and Malashenko, Larisa, eds., Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006). Publisher's description: “Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, and the margins of draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their colleagues with drawings of one another. Nearly 200 of these informal sketches … are reproduced here … the drawings and their accompanying notes reveal the relationships and mindsets of the Bolshevik bosses at the time of Stalin's rise to power with blazing immediacy.”
- Zhu, Hong, Chen Duxiu Yu Hu Shi (Wuhan Shi: Hubei Ren Min Chu Ban She, 2006)
Monographs: historical
- Aftalion, Florin, Alerte Rouge sur l’Amérique: Retour sur le Maccarthysme (Paris: JC Lattès, 2006)
- Baigushev, Aleksandr, Russkii Orden Vnutri KPSS: Pomoshchnik M.A. Suslova Vspominaet (Moskva: Algoritm, 2006). Communism and Judaism
- Bartzes, Giannes D., and Patsiou, Viky, Petros Pikros (1894–1956): Strateuse, Antiparatheseis, Pikries ste Logotechnia tou Mesopolemou (Thessaloniki, Greece: Ekdotikos Oikos Ant. Stamoule, 2006). Communism and literature, Greece
- Black, J. L., and Rudner, Martain, eds, The Gouzenko Affair: Canada and the Beginnings of Cold War Counter-Espionage (Manotick, Canada: Penumbra Press, 2006). A collection of papers presented at a Conference on the Gouzenko Affair, held at Library and Archives Canada on 14–15 April 2004
- Blotin, Pierre, Communisme Français: l’Heure de Vérité (Paris: Bérénice, 2006)
- Bo, Zhiyue, The ‘Freezing’ Point (Bingdian) Saga in China: Did the Chinese Communist Party's Propagada Department Make a Mistake? (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2006). Freedom of the press
- Brodiez, Axelle, Le Secours Populaire Français: 1945–2000. Du Communisme à l’Humanitaire (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2006)
- Brodsgaard, Erik, and Yheng, Yongnian, The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Colombo, John Robert, Red Humour: East European Jokes and Anecdotes (Shelburne, Canada: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2006)
- Consiglio, Dario, Il PCI e la Costruzione di una Cultura di Massa: Letteratura, Cinema e Musica in Italia (1956–1964) (Milano, Italy: UNICOPLI, 2006)
- Datta Gupta, Sobhanlal, Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India: 1919–1943: Dialectics of Real and a Possible History (Bakhrahat, India: Seribaan, 2006)
- Drda, Adam, and Dudek, Petr, Kdo ve Stínu Ceká na Mo: Cestí Komunisté po Listopadu 1989 (Praha, Czech Republic: Paseka, 2006)
- Dundovich, Elena, and Gori, Francesca, Italiani nei Lager di Stalin (Roma: Laterza, 2006)
- Dunn, Bill, and Radice, H. K., 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (London: Pluto Press, 2006)
- Farber, Samuel, “The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban communists,” in: The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
- Fischer-Defoy, Christine, and Hoss, Christiane, Vor die Tür Gesetzt: Im Nationalsozialismus Verfolgte Berliner Stadtverordnete und Magistratsmitglieder 1933–1945 (Berlin: Verein Aktives Museum). Descriptors include: communists, Germany, Berlin, biography, exhibitions
- Forsyth, Scott, “Communists, class, and culture in Canada,” in: Malek Khouri, ed., Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2006)
- Gökay, Bülent, Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920–1991: Soviet Foreign Policy, Turkey and Communism (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Golsan, Richard Joseph, French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
- Gismondi, Arturo, Cronache Bizantine: La Sinistra Incompiuta da Berlinguer alla Quercia (Roma: Liberal, 2006)
- Gross, Jan Tomasz, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation (New York: Random House, 2006)
- Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones, “Mothers of communists: women revolutionaries and the construction of a Soviet identity,” in: Helena Goscilo, ed., Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006)
- Hemingway, Andrew, Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left (London: Pluto, 2006)
- James, C. L. R., Lee, Grace C., and Castoriadus, Cornelius, Facing Reality (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 2006)
- Jocelyn, Ed, and McEwen, Andrew, The Long March: The True Story behind the Legendary Journey That Made Mao's China (London: Constable, 2006)
- Kouloglou, Stelios, Martyries Gia Ton Emphylio Kai Ten Hellenike Aristera (Athena: Hestia, 2006)
- Kowalski, Ronald I., European Communism 1848–1991 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Lattek, Christine, “Between democrats and Blanquists: the Communist League, 1849–1850,” in: Revolutionary Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840–1860 (London: Routledge, 2006)
- Laybourn, Keith, Marxism in Britain: Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945–c.2000 (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Lazar, Marc, “A totalitarian movement in a democratic society: the case of the Communist Party of France,” in: Jerzy W. Borejsza, Claus Ziemer and Magdalena Hulas, eds., Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe: Legacies and Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006)
- Le Blanc, Paul, “The red decade,” In: Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Lehner, Giancarlo, and Bigazzi, Francesco, Carnefici e Vittime: I Crimini Del PCI in Unione Sovietica (Milano, Italy: Mondadori, 2006)
- Leutner, Mechthild, “The Communist Party of China (CCP) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the Comintern (CI) in the 1920s and early 1930s: interactions between cooperation and defense,” in: William C. Kirby, ed., Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective (Berlin: Lit-Verlag, 2006)
- Liu, Xiaoyuan, “Dialects of brotherhood: the Chinese Communist Party and the Mongolian People's Republic,” in: Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911–1950 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), Ch. 3
- Manes, Sergio, Senza Testa: Limiti e Insegnamenti Delle Lotte Degli Anni’60 e’70 (Napoli, Italy: La Città del Sole, 2006)
- Martin, Peter, Censorship in the Two Irelands, 1922–39 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006). Includes a discussion of anti-communist initiatives
- Marz, Peter, Woran Erinnern?: Der Kommunismus in der Deutschen Erinnerungskultur (Köln, Germany: Böhlau, 2006)
- McKay, George, Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005). Includes a discussion of the anti-jazz position of the Communist Party
- Michlic, Joanna B., “Communists, Judeo-Stalinists, Judeo-anti-communists, and national nihilists: the communist regime and the myth, 1950s–80s,” in: Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
- Minehan, Philip B., Civil War and World War in Europe: Spain, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1936–1949 (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Misdaq, Nabi, “Afghan communists, 1965–78,” in: Afghanistan: Political Frailty and External Interference (London: Routledge, 2006)
- Moore, Robin, Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006)
- Morgan, Kevin, Bolshevism and the British Left, Vol. 1, Labour Legends and Russian Gold (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2006)
- Morgan, Kevin, Bolshevism and the British Left, Vol. 2, The Webbs and Soviet Communism (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2006)
- Mosyakov, Dmitry, “The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese communists: a history of their relations as told in the Soviet archives,” in: Susan E. Cook, ed., Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006)
- Namboodiry, Udayan, Bengal's Night Without End (New Delhi: India First Foundation, 2006). Abstract: On electoral malpractices in West Bengal, India; with special focus on the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- O’Connor, Kevin, “A consolidating force: creating a Russian Communist Party—the apparatchiks’ party,” in: Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006)
- Pak, B. D., SSSR, Komintern i Koreiskoe osvoboditel’noe Dvizhenie, 1918–1925: Ocherki, Dokumenty, Materialy (Moskva: In-t Vostokovedeniia RAN, 2006). Korean communism
- Risso, Linda, “Against the new Wehrmacht: the Italian communists’ opposition to the European integration process, 1950–55,” in: Politics and Culture in Post-War Italy (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2006)
- Rodrigues, Valerian, “The Communist Parties in India,” in: Peter Ronald deSouza and Eswaran Sridharan, eds., India's Political Parties (New Delhi: Sage, 2006)
- Samuel, Raphael, The Lost World of British Communism (London: Verso, 2006)
- Santamaria, Yves, Le Parti de l’Ennemi: le Parti Communiste Français dans la Lutte pour la Paix, 1947–1958 (Paris: Colin, 2006)
- Schmeidel, John Christian, STASI: Sword and Shield of the Party (London: Routledge, 2006)
- Schoppa, R. Keith, Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006)
- Schulte-Bockholt, Alfredo, “A tale of two coups: Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980,” in: The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006)
- Shore, Marci, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006)
- Shternshis, Anna, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)
- Slupkov, Ireneusz Adam, The Communist Party of Greece and the Macedonian National Problem, 1918–1940 (Szczecin, Poland: Ireneusz A. Slupkov, 2006)
- Spilker, Dirk, The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany: Patriotism and Propaganda 1945–1953 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). SED
- Stern, Ludmila, Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union: 1920–40: From Red Square to the Left Bank (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Stibbe, Matthew, “The SED, German communism and the 17 June 1953 uprising: new trends and new research,” in: Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe, eds., Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule (New York: Berg, 2006)
- Taminaux, Pierre, “Breton and Trotsky: the revolutionary memory of surrealism,” in: Katherine Conley and Pierre Taminaux, eds., Surrealism and Its Others (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006)
- Tijani, Hakeem Ibikunle, Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945–1965 (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Tomoff, Kiril, “The results of party intervention,” in: Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006)
- Vargas, Otto, and Reyes, Adrian, La Trama de una Argentina Antagónica: Del Cordobazo al Fin de la Dictadura (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Agora, 2006)
- Vidal, Georges, La Grande Illusion: la Parti Communiste Français et la Défense Nationale à l’Epoque du Front Populaire, 1934–1939 (Lyon, France: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2006)
- Vittoria, Albertina, Storia del PCI 1921–1991 (Roma: Carocci, 2006)
Serials
- Adams, James, Clark, Michael, Ezrow, Laurence, and Glasgow, Garrett, “Are niche parties fundamentally different from mainstream parties? The causes and the electoral consequences of Western European parties’ policy shifts, 1976–1998,” American Journal of Political Science, 50, no. 3 (2006): 513–30. “… we find no evidence that niche parties responded to shifts in public opinion …[and] that in situations where niche parties moderated their policy positions they were systematically punished at the polls (a result consistent with the hypothesis that such parties represent extreme or noncentrist ideological clienteles).”
- Adi, Hakim, “Forgotten comrade? Desmond Buckle: an African communist in Britain,” Science & Society, 70, no. 1 (2006), 22–45
- Aurell i Cardona, Jaume, “Autobiographical texts as historiographical sources: rereading Fernand Braudel and Annie Kriegel,” Biography, 29, no. 3 (2006), 425–45. Kriegel was at one time a member of the PCF
- Beaumont, Matthew, “Cacotopianism, the Paris Commune, and England's anti-communist imaginary, 1870–1900,” ELH, 73, no. 2 (2006), 465–87
- Becker, Marc, “Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the indigenous question in Latin America,” Science & Society, 70, no. 4 (2006), 450–79
- Beecher, Jonathan, “French socialism in Lenin's and Stalin's Moscow: David Riazanov and the French archive of the Marx-Engels Institute,” Journal of Modern History, 78 (March 2006), 119–43
- Belnap, Jeffrey Grant, “Diego Rivera's Greater America Pan-American patronage, indigenism, and H.P.,” Cultural Critique, 63 (2006), 61–98
- Bowen-Struyk, Heather, “Guest Editor's introduction. Proletarian arts in East Asia.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 14, no. 2 (2006), 251–78
- Bowen-Struyk, Heather, “Rival imagined communities: class and nation in Japanese proletarian literature,” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 14, no. 2 (2006), 373–404
- Burke, Roland, “The compelling dialogue of freedom: human rights at the Bandung Conference,” Human Rights Quarterly, 28, no. 4 (2006), 947–65
- Callaghan, John, and Morgan, Kevin, “The open conspiracy of the Communist Party and the case of W. N. Ewer, communist and anti-communist,” Historical Journal, 49, no. 2 (2006), 549–64
- Carter, David, “Communism and carnival: Ralph de Boissiere's Crown Jewel and its Australian context,” Journal of the Department of English [Calcutta, India], 32, no. 1/2 (2005/2006), 86–100
- Cenckiewicz, Slawomir, “Polscy Agenci Moskwy w USA” [“Moscow's Polish agents in the USA”], Biuletyn Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej [Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance (Poland)], March/April 2006, 36–58. Discusses Boleslaw “Bill” Gebert, a founding member of the CPUSA, among others
- Choi, Seung-Wan, “Naengjon ui Okapjok Chongch’i Hyonsil: 1950/60 Nyondai Soton ui ongsanju ui cha T’anap ul Chungsim uro” [“The oppressive political conditions of the Cold War: West Germany's oppression of Communists in the 1950s–60s”], Yoksa Hakbo [Korean Historical Review], 190 (2006), 201–38
- Clark, Mark W., “Hero or villain? Bertolt Brecht and the crisis surrounding June 1953,” Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), 451–75
- Clark, William A., “Communist devolution: the electoral decline of the KPRF,” Problems of Post-Communism, 53, no. 1 (2006), 15–25. Russian Federation CP
- Comber, Leon, “The Malayan Special Branch on the Malayan–Thai frontier during the Malayan Emergency (1948–60),” Intelligence and National Security, 21, no. 1 (2006), 77–99
- Cornwall, Mark, “Stirring resistance from Moscow: the German communists of Czechoslovakia and wireless propaganda in the Sudetenland, 1941–1945,” German History, 24, no. 2 (2006), 212–42
- Cross, Richard, and Flinn, Andrew, “Biography meets history: Communist Party lives in international perspective: introduction,” Science & Society, 70, no. 1 (2006), 11–21
- Cull, Nicholas J., “Was Captain Black really red? The TV science fiction of Gerry Anderson in its Cold War context,” Media History, 12, no. 2 (2006), 193–207
- Drake, David, “The PCF, the surrealists, Clarté and the Rif War,” French Cultural Studies, 17, no. 2 (2006), 173–88
- Durgan, Andy (interviewee), “Seventy years after the Spanish Civil War,” International Socialism, no. 111 (summer 2006), 163–70
- English, Jim, “Empire Day in Britain, 1904–1958,” Historical Journal, 49, no. 1 (2006), 247–76. Includes some discussion of the CPGB response
- Fernandez, Carlos, Semprún, Jorge, and Azaustre, Manuel; Vilanova, Mercedes (interviewer), “Jorge Semprun y Manuel Azaustre: dos vidas contadas” [“Jorge Semprún and Manuel Azaustre: two life stories”], Historia Antropología y Fuentes Orales, 35 (2006), 83–117
- Fishman, Nina, Prazmowska, Anita J., and Heith, Holger, “Communist coalmining activists and postwar reconstruction, 1945–52: Germany, Poland and Britain,” Science & Society, 70, no. 1 (2006), 46–73
- Furst, Julianne, “In search of Soviet salvation: young people write to the Stalinist authorities,” Contemporary European History, 15, no. 3 (2006), 327–45. Komsomols, etc
- Garner, Jason, “Separated by an ideological chasm: the Spanish National Labour Confederation and Bolshevik internationalism, 1917–1922,” Contemporary European History, 15, no. 3 (2006), 293–326
- Guiheux, Gilles, “The political ‘participation’ of entrepreneurs: challenge or opportunity for the Chinese Communist Party?,” Social Research, 73, no.1 (2006), 219–44
- Ginor, Isabella, and Remez, Gideon, “The spymaster, the communist, and Foxbats over Dimona: the USSR's motive for instigating the Six-Day War,” Israel Studies, 11, no. 2 (2006), 88–130. Israel's nuclear weapons program as a factor and a discussion of the role Moshe Sneh, the Israeli Communist leader, who (apparently with Israeli approval) informed the USSR of Israel's intention to build nuclear weapons
- Gray, Geoffrey, “The ANRC has withdrawn its offer: Paul Kirchhoff, academic freedom and the Australian academic establishment,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52, no. 3 (2006), 362–77
- Heathorne, Stephen and Greenspoon, David, “Organising youth for partisan politics in Britain, 1918–c.1932,” Historian, 61, no. 1 (2006), 89–119
- Innes, Christopher, “Allegories from the past: Tom Stoppard's uses of history,” Modern Drama, 49, no. 2 (2006), 223–37. Includes a brief discussion of Travesties (featuring Lenin in Zurich)
- Kaplan, Vera, “A dress rehearsal for cultural revolution: Bolshevik policy towards teachers and education between February and October, 1917,” History of Education, 35, no. 4/5 (2006), 427–52
- Kelemen, Paul, “British communists and the Palestine conflict, 1929–1948,” Holy Land Studies, 5, no. 2 (2006), 131–53
- Kotila, Pikko, “Hertta Kuusinen: the Red Lady of Finland,” Science & Society, 70, no. 1 (2006), 46–73
- Kranjc, Gregor, “Long live our honest girls: the image of women in Slovene anti-communist propaganda, 1942–1945,” Journal of Women's History, 18, no. 1 (2006), 50–76
- Kristensen, Lasse, “Tjekkoslovakiets eksempel—ungkommunistisk dannelse i begyndlsen af den Kolde Krig” [“The case of Czechoslovakia: the forming of young communists at the beginning of the Cold War period”], Arbejderhistorie: Tidsskrift for Historie, Kultur og Politik, 2/3 (2006), 39–51
- Laursen, Eric, “A new enigmatic language: the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm and the case of Gladkov's Cement,” Slavic Review, 65, no. 1 (2006), 66–89. Abstract descriptors include “communist party.” Contains a discussion of this socialist realist novel, noting “In the party purge at the end, those who speak unconsciously, therefore misleading and confusing the masses, are cast out of the party. The newly conscious Gleb and Dasha, who now speak properly, take their place as leaders.”
- Li, Jianhui, and Hongxu, Wang, “The origins of the general line for the transition period and of the acceleration of the Chinese socialist transformation in summer 1955,” China Quarterly, 187 (2006), 724–31
- Lindenberger, Herbert, “Heroic or foolish? The 1942 bombing of a Nazi anti-Soviet exhibit,” Telos, 135 (2006), 127–54. “… looks at the bombing of a Nazi anti-Soviet exhibit in Berlin on May 18, 1942, by communist, largely Jewish resistance fighters … wonders about the political appropriateness and ethical legitimacy of the attack, where reprisals could have been anticipated.”
- Liu, Ping, “The left-wing drama movement in China and its relationship to Japan,” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 14, no. 2 (2006), 449–66
- Loewenstein, Karl E., “Re-emergence of public opinion in the Soviet Union: Khrushchev and responses to the secret speech,” Europe–Asia Studies, 58 (2006), 1329–46. Contains a discussion of the CPSU response
- Lu, Xing, and Simons, Herbert, “Transitional rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the post-Mao reform period: dilemmas and strategies,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92, no. 3 (2006), 262–86
- Maier, Hans, “Political religions and their images: Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German national socialism,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 7, no. 3 (2006), 267–81
- Manson, John, “Did James Barke join the Communist Party?,” Communist History Network Newsletter Online, 19 (spring 2006), http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/chnn
- Manson, John, “Was Grassic Gibbon a Communist Party member?,” Communist History Network Newsletter Online, 19 (spring 2006), http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/chnn
- March, Luke, “Power and opposition in the former Soviet Union: the Communist Parties of Moldova and Russia,” Party Politics, 12, no. 3 (2006), 341–66
- Mark, James, “Antifascism, the 1956 revolution and the politics of communist autobiographies in Hungary 1944–2000,” Europe–Asia Studies, 58, no. 8 (2006), 1209–40
- Marot, John Eric, “Trotsky, the left opposition, and the rise of Stalinism: theory and practice,” Historical Materialism, 14, no. 3 (2006), 175–206
- McCallum, Todd, “The Great Depression's first history? The Vancouver Archives of Major J.S. Matthews and the writing of Hobo History,” The Canadian Historical Review, 87, no. 1 (2006), 79–107. Includes a discussion of communist activities
- McCrindle, Jean, “The Hungarian Uprising and a young British communist,” History Workshop Journal, 62, no. 1 (2006), 194–99
- McIlroy, John, “The establishment of intellectual orthodoxy and the Stalinization of British communism 1928–1933,” Past & Present, 192 (2006), 187–230
- McLellan, Josie, “I wanted to be a little Lenin: ideology and the German International Brigade volunteers,” Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), 287–304
- McRobbie, Kenneth, “Under the sign of the pendulum: childhood experience as determining revolutionary consciousness: Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897–1978),” Canadian Journal of History, 41, no. 2 (2006), 263–98. “At the age of twenty [she] became Hungary's leading female revolutionary: first organizing anti-war propaganda in 1917, then for the next four years—as a member of the newly formed Hungarian Communist Party—working in the 1919 Budapest Republic of Soviets and, in 1920, briefly in Moscow, before being expelled from the Party in 1922. Later she assisted in the final phase of the anti-fascist stand of the Austrian Workers Militia (Schutzbund) in Vienna from 1934–36 … . Late in life she began work on an autobiography.”
- Newsinger, John, “Recent controversies in the history of British communism,” Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), 557–72
- Mistry, Kaeten, “The case for political warfare: strategy, organization and US involvement in the 1948 Italian election,” Cold War History, 36, no. 3 (2006), 301–29
- Nilsson, Lars Bro, “Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti under den Anden Kolde Krig” [“The Danish Communist Party during the Second Cold War”], Arbejderhistorie: Tidsskrift for Historie, Kultur og Politik, 2/3 (2006), 20–38
- Osawa, Takehiko, “Sengo Naisen-Ki Ni Okero Chugoku Kyosanto No Tohoku Shihai To Taiso Koeki” [“The Chinese Communist Party's control of the northeast and trade with the Soviet Union during the post-World War II Civil War”], Rekishigaku Kenkyu, no. 5 (2006), 1–15, 61
- Our History: History Group of the Communist Party of Britain Newsletter, New Series, no. 1 (May 2006). Available online at: http://www.communist-party.org.uk/downloads/OurHistoryBulletin_1.pdf
- Patrias, Carmela, “Socialists, Jews and the 1947 Saskatchewan Bill of Rights,” The Canadian Historical Review, 87, no. 2 (2006), 265–92
- Radchenko, Sergei Sergeyeevich, “Mongolian politics in the shadow of the Cold War: the 1964 coup attempt and the Sino-Soviet split,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 8, no. 1 (2006), 95–119. Internal conflict in the Mongolian CP
- Reid, Nicholas, “Struggle for souls: Catholicism and communism in twentieth-century New Zealand,” Australian Historical Studies, 128 (2006), 72–88
- Riga, Liliana, “Ethnonationalism, assimilation, and the social worlds of the Jewish Bolsheviks in fin de siècle Tsarist Russia,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48, no. 4 (2006), 762–97
- Robin, Regine, “Sartre was always wrong—or was he?,” Journal of Romance Studies, 6, no. 1/2 (2006), 79–92
- Roy, Srila, “Revolutionary marriage: on the politics of sexual stories in Naxalbari,” Feminist Review, 83, no. 1 (2006), 99–118. Bengali communism
- Shah, Alpa, “Markets of protection: the terrorist Maoist movement and the state in Jharkhand, India,” Critique of Anthropology, 26, no. 3 (2006), 297–314
- Smith, James, “Brecht, the Berliner Ensemble, and British Government,” New Theatre Quarterly, 22, no. 88 (2006), 307–23. Surveillance by MI5
- Smula, Johann, “The Party and the proletariat: Škoda 1948–53,” Cold War History, 6, no. 1 (2006), 153–75
- Snir, Reuven, “Till spring comes: Arabic and Hebrew literary debates among Iraqi-Jews in Israel (1950–2000),” Shofar, 24, no. 2 (2006), 92–123
- Sonnessa, Antonio, “Factory cells and the Red Aid Movement: factory and neighborhood forms of organization and resistance to fascism in Turin, 1922–1926,” Science & Society, 70, no. 4 (2006), 480–508
- Sperber, Raquel Ibanez, “Judios en las Brigadas Internacionales. Algunas cuestiones generales” [“Jews in the International Brigades. Some general considerations”], Historia Actual Online, no. 9 (winter 2006), http://www.historia-actual.com/hao/pbhao.asp
- Stoica, Catalin Augustin, “Once upon a time there was a big party: the social bases of the Romanian Communist Party (Part II),” East European Politics and Societies, 20, no. 3 (2006), 447–82
- Stokes, Lawrence D., “Fact or fiction? German writer A.E. Johann, a Winnipeg communist, and the Depression in the Canadian West, 1931–1932,” Labour/Le Travail, 57 (2006), 131–42
- Suleiman, Susan Robin, “Ontology and politics: the representation of communists in Sartre's fiction and theatre,” Journal of Romance Studies, 6, no. 1/2 (2006), 127–41
- “Symposium. Translating Gramsci: Joseph Buttigieg's Edition of the Prison Notebooks,” Rethinking Marxism, 18, no. 1 (2006), 7–42
- Tamineaux, Pierre, “Breton and Trotsky: the revolutionary memory of Surrealism,” Yale French Studies, 109 (2006), 52–66
- Tanaka, Masato, “Minshu shugi, heiwa shugi, shakai shugi: Nihon kyosan shugi undoshi kenkyo no saikin no juichi nen” [“Democracy, pacifism, socialism: the last decade of historical research on the Japanese communist movement”], Shirin, 89, no. 1 (2006), 137–64
- Thatcher, Ian D., “Communism and religion in early Bolshevik Russia: a discussion of work published since 1989,” European History Quarterly, 36 (2006), 586–98
- The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online, XII, no. 19 (2006), 93 pp. Available online at: http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/JHK-news/Newsletter/Newsletter.htm. Contents: (I) Newsletter of the newsletters: communist studies, selected items; (II) Archival problems, files, institutions, projects; (III) Projects—work in progress; (IV) Materials for biographical, regional, and institutional studies; (V) New publications—reports and reviews (including: The political biography of Alvaro Cunhal, vol. 3, 1949–1960; Jose Pacheco Pereira; Sobhanlal Datta Gupta: Comintern and the destiny of communism in India)
- Todorova, Maria, “The mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as lieu de memoire,” Journal of Modern History, 78, no. 2 (2006), 377–411
- Welch, Cliff, “Keeping communism down on the farm,” Latin American Perspectives, 33, no. 3 (2006), 28–50
- Windle, Kevin, “A troika of agitators: three Comintern liaison agents in Australia, 1920–22,” Australia Journal of Politics & History, 52, no. 1 (2006), 30–47
Dissertations and theses
- Bivens, Andrew Hunter, “Concrete utopia: history and labor in the German communist novel (Eduard Claudius, Anna Seghers, Brigitte Reimann),” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2006. AAT 3206315
- Coombes, Sam, “Sartre's thought, 1936–48, in relation to thinkers of the left,” Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University, 2006
- Cox, John M., “Circles of resistance: intersections of Jewish, leftist, and youth dissidence under the Third Reich, 1933–1945,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
- Janzen, Marike Sophie, “Messenger writers: author position, the international left, and the Cold War (Anna Seghers, Germany, Alejo Carpentier, Cuba),” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
- Lupp, Bjorn-Erik, “Von der Klassensolidarität zur Humanitären Hilfe: die Flüchtlingspolitik der Politischen Linken 1930–1950,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Basel, 2003. Switzerland
- Nassar, Maha Tawfik, “Affirmation and resistance: press, poetry and the formation of national identity among Palestinian citizens of Israel, 1948–1967,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2006
- Okuyama, Yutaka, “De-radicalization of the communist parties in the developed countries: comparative studies of the role of the French and Japanese Communist Parties in the social movements of 1968,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama, 2005
- Perlman, Susan M., “Shock therapy: the United States anti-communist psychological campaign in Fourth Republic France,” Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 2006
Conference materials
- Campbell, Alan, “British communists and Russian spies,” paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006
- Kley, Martin, University of Texas, Austin, “Toward the two-hour work day: Weimar anarchists in search of alternatives to Fordism and Bolshevism,” paper presented at the North American Labor History Conference, 2006
Appendix: Communism in Fiction 1992–2006 (selected English language works)2
- Ali, Tariq, Fear of Mirrors (London: Arcadia Books, 1998). “The German university professor, Vladimir Meyer, a dissident in the days of communism, discovers things are not so different under capitalism when he is fired for holding unpopular socialist views.”
- Allen, Jack, Change of Heart (Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, 2001). Communists; Russia (Federation); politics and government; fiction
- Andjelko, Cerancevic, Offhand Swineries (London: Minerva, 1997). Swine; communism; single men; fiction
- Banville, John, The Untouchable (London: Picador, 1997). Anthony Blunt
- Barnes, Julian, Apostrophes and Apocalypses (New York: TOR, 1992). “Stories and essays on the past and future. In one, sexual intercourse takes place between humans and intelligent animals, another is a revisionist view of Christopher Columbus, and in a third story communism triumphs in the Cold War.”
- Barnes, Julian, The Porcupine (London: J. Cape, 1992). “The upheavals that have recently rocked Eastern Europe provide the inspiration for Barnes's latest novel. … It focuses primarily on the interaction between two men, former Communist party head Stoyo Petkanov, for 33 years the leader of his nation, and Peter Solinsky, newly appointed chief prosecutor for ‘justice.’ Rather than adopt a meek, defensive posture, the recalcitrant party chief thrusts out some barbs of his own, suggesting that the new leadership is no less susceptible to lies and hypocrisy than his own government was.” Communism; Eastern Europe; politics and government; 1989; fiction
- Blackthorn, John, I, Che Guevara: A Novel (New York: W. Morrow & Co., 2000). “As Cuba prepares for its first free election, pitting Havana communists against Miami capitalists, a third political party appears. It is led by a man whom voters believe to be Che Guevara, who did not die after all. The man's message of grassroots democracy spreads panic among communists and capitalists alike.”
- Bock, Dennis, The Communist's Daughter: A Novel (Toronto, Canada: HarperCollins, 2006). Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937–1945; Norman Bethune, 1890–1939; fiction
- Brown, Lloyd L., Iron City: A Novel (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1994). African-American communists; fiction
- Bridal, Tessa, The Tree of Red Stars (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1997). “The political awakening of young Magda, a member of Uruguay's golden youth … chronicles her evolution from a privileged girl … to a member of the Tupamaros, the country's main revolutionary movement.” African-American communists; African-American prisoners; African-American men; fiction
- Brust, Steven, and Bull, Emma, Freedom and Necessity (New York: TOR, 1997). “A 19th century plot by capitalists in England to stem social reform. The hero is James Cobham, an English revolutionary and one of the founders of Communism. The novel describes the various attempts by the plotters to get rid of him and how he fights back with the aid of his woman.”
- Brycz, Pavel, I, City (Prague, Czech Republic: Twisted Spoon, 2006). “I, City is a novel about the north Bohemian city of Most …[the] city is the narrator … telling its own story through its inhabitants … fictional people say factual things and factual people (Kafka … the last president of Communist Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak) say fictional things.”
- Buckley, William F., Last Call for Blackford Oakes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005). Includes Kim Philby
- Buckley, William F., The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1999). “… narrated by an assistant who parts company because the senator is destroying people's lives with half-truths.”
- Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (Trans. George Shriver), How It All Began (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). “Bukharin's thinly veiled autobiographical novel, written during the last months of his life in prison, was suppressed in Stalin's personal archive until the 1990s.”
- Buzura, Augustin, Requiem for Fools and Beasts (New York: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004). “The English edition of this celebrated novel by [a] world-renowned Romanian writer … paints a psychological portrait of rulers and the ruled under communism (the eponymous ‘fools’ and ‘beasts’).”
- Campbell, James Oliver, The Uncivil Patriot (United States: 1st Books, 2001). Labor unions; USA; organized crime; communism; fiction
- Carlisle, Henry, and Carlisle, Olga Andreyev, The Idealists (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1999). “A novel on the 1917 Russian Revolution whose heroine is the daughter of the leader of the Socialist Party. Through her eyes are seen the machinations which resulted in the Socialists losing power to the Communist Party, despite having a majority in parliament.”
- Chalmers, Robin, Prince's Trust (London: Minerva Press, 1998). Family; Scotland; communists; Russia; conspiracy; special forces (military science); Princes; Great Britain; parachute troops; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; Highlands (Scotland); fiction
- Champion, David, She Died for for Her Sins: A Bomber Hanson Mystery (Santa Barbara, CA: Allen A. Knoll, 2002). Bomber Hanson (fictitious character); fathers and sons; trials (murder); Communists; California; fiction
- Christopher, Nicole, Death of a Tyrant (Sutton, Surrey, UK: Severn House, 1997). Stalin; Beria
- Chaudhuri, Amit, Freedom Song: Three Novels (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999). “Three novels … featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party.”
- Cheever, John, Thirteen Uncollected Stories (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1994). One … is about a Communist rabble-rouser who is getting nowhere
- Clifford, Nicholas Rowland, The House of Memory: A Novel of Shanghai (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994). “In China on a research project, Harvard professor Mathew Walker tries to discover why an American writer disappeared in Shanghai in 1927, during pro-Communist riots. As he does so, he finds himself dangerously close to following in the writer's footsteps, only now they are anti-Communist riots.”
- Collins, Max Allan, Majic Man: A Nathan Heller Novel (New York: Dutton, 1999). “A Cold War mystery in which PI Nathan Heller is hired by the U.S. Secretary of Defense … the target of a conspiracy by Communists within the federal government.”
- Cook, James, Fellow Travellers (Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 2000). “Two American entrepreneurs try their luck in the Soviet Union of the 1920s. They are the Faust brothers of New York, sons of a millionaire who co-founded the American Communist Party. They dig for platinum, manufacture aspirins and one marries a Russian, but when Stalin comes to power their concessions are withdrawn and they have to leave.”
- Coover, Robert, The Public Burning (New York: Grove Press, 1997). Trials (espionage); fiction; communists; Julius Rosenberg, 1918–1953; Ethel Rosenberg, 1915–1953
- Cosgrove, Erin, The Baader–Meinhof Affair: A Secret Romance (New York: Printed Matter, 2002). College students; New York State; Baader–Meinhof gang; terrorists; Germany; communists; romance; fiction
- Davies, Peter Ho, The Ugliest House in the World: Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2005). “… The ‘Silver Screen’ deals with Hollywood's influence on a Communist revolution.”
- Defoe, Gideon, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006). “London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers … plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain … finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelgänger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot.”
- Delahunt, Meaghan, In the Blue House (London: Bloomsbury, 2001). Trotsky; Kahlo
- Dillon, Millicent, Harry Gold: A Novel (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000). Espionage; Soviet; Manhattan Project; fiction
- Dixon, Thomas, The Flaming Sword (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005). Originally published 1939. White supremacy movements; African-American criminals; anti-communist movements; murder victims’ families; back to Africa movement; lynching; racism; New York; South Carolina; fiction
- Druzhnikov, Iurii, Madonna from Russia (London: Peter Owen, 2006). “Newly arrived from the provinces, the young Lily becomes a prostitute working the streets of Petrograd. Soon she is recruited by the Bolsheviks to a higher category of working woman to service the Communist elite. At the age of twenty-three she makes a fortuitous marriage to Andrei Bourbon, poet, Futurist and artistic colleague of Malevich, Mayakovsky, Burliuk and others. One day Bourbon takes some of Lily's poems to the official children's newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda. With the aid of an airbrushed and suitably ‘revolutionary’ biography, her poems are immediately published as children's books. Andrei Bourbon disappears in the purges and Lily becomes poet laureate and an ideal symbol of the Soviet era. After further marriages and the eventual collapse of the dictatorship, Lily manages to escape Russia.”
- Du’o’ng, Thu Hu’o’ng, Novel without a Name (New York: W. Morrow, 1995). “The story of a North Vietnamese soldier, from his enlistment full of idealism, to his disillusionment after 10 years of war. The writer, who lives in Hanoi, is an advocate of human rights. In 1991 she spent seven months in jail for her political beliefs after being expelled from the Communist party.”
- Eisenberg, Nora, The War at Home: A Memoir-Novel (Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog Press, 2002). World War II; veterans; brothers and sisters; medication abuse; communists; the Bronx (New York); fiction
- Faherty, Terence, Kill Me Again: A Scott Elliott Mystery (Carmel, IN: Crum Creek Press, 2003). “In 1940s Hollywood, a screenwriter is accused of being a Communist, which could mean financial ruin for the studio. Before the truth can be established he is murdered. Who did it, an individual or the studio? Investigating is Scott Elliott, an actor reduced to security duties on his return from World War II.”
- Finger, Anne, Bone Truth: A Novel (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1994). “In San Francisco, a woman photographer recounts her sad life … the daughter of communist parents who suffered at the hands of McCarthy … a polio victim and now … pregnant … and not sure if her relationship with the baby's father will last.”
- Fitzpatrick, Nina, The Loves of Faustyna (New York: Penguin Books, 1995). “The adventures, political and amorous, of a woman intellectual under Communism. The setting is Poland in the 1960s, a time of demonstrations against the regime in which she takes part.”
- Fleming, Charles, After Havana (New York: St Martin's Minotaur, 2004). “A … novel of Cuba in 1958 … is the story of the nightclubs, revolutionaries, and Security forces in the sour twilight of the Batista empire. Sloan is a white American horn player … Anita is the mixed-race beauty … Carlos Delgado is the famed rebel Communist leader, having secretly returned to his homeland from exile in Mexico … Cardoso is the haunted Security agent assigned to find and kill Delgado.”
- Ford, Richard, Vintage Ford (New York: Vintage Books, 2004). Contents include “Communist from Rock Springs.”
- Furst, Alan, Red Gold: A Novel (New York: Random House, 1999). “In World War II, a French film director working for the Vichy resistance has to smuggle a large shipment of arms under the nose of the Nazis. The guns are the price the Communists demand for cooperation with the resistance.”
- Georgescu, Adriana, In the Beginning Was the End (Bucharest, Romania: Memoria Cultural Foundation, 2004). Communism; Romania; fiction
- Giardino, A Jew in Communist Prague (New York: NBM Comics Lit., 1997). “A graphic novel of life under Communism in 1950s Prague. The main character is a Jewish boy whose father has been arrested in the middle of the night. He and his mother write letters to obtain the father's release, but that only brings more trouble.” Communism; Romania; history; 1944–1989; fiction
- Gorman, Edward, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, 2001). Sam McCain (fictitious character); private investigators; Iowa; communists; fiction
- Goudge, Eileen, “My father the communist,” in: Jill M. Morgan, ed., Fathers and Daughters: A Celebration in Memoirs, Stories, and Photographs (New York: Signet, 1999)
- Grand, David; The Disappearing Body: A Novel (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003). Drug trafficking; heroin abuse; anti-communist movements; fiction
- Grecu, Eugene, Long Shadows of War (Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2006). World War II; Romania; anti-communist movements; fiction
- Greene, Graham, It's a Battlefield (London: Vintage, 2002). Communists; Great Britain; murderers; death row inmates; fiction
- Gunn, Rufus, A Friendship of Convenience (Saffham, UK: Gay Men's Press, 1997). Anthony Blunt; Joseph Losey
- Harris, Jimmy Carl, “The communists of my youth,” in: Walking Wounded: Stories (Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2006)
- Hillhouse, Raelynn, Rift Zone (New York: Forge, 2005). Smugglers; communists; birth fathers; missing persons; fathers and daughters; Americans; Eastern Europe; Berlin (Germany); fiction
- Hogan, James P., Rockets, Redheads, and Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999). Stories. Contents include: “What really brought down communism?”
- Hornstein, Claire Hartford, Fragile Roots: An Historical Novel, from the Great Depression of the 1930s through the Vietnam War in the 1970s (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004). Communism; USA; fiction
- Horvath, Andre, The Other Side of the Fence (St Marys, Australia: Horvath Books, 1997). Communism; Hungary; history; 1945–1989; fiction
- Hunt, Gaillard, City of Masterless Men: Washington in the 1930s: A Slice-of-Life Novel in the Manner of John Dos Passos (s.l.: s.n., 2005). Unpublished novel finished in 1943, printed from Gaillard T. Hunt's web site 24 January 2005 and archived, with permission, in the Michigan State University Library (http://www.gthunt.com/citymmin.htm). “… about the Washington of a cab driver (Anderson) and a patent examiner (Peter Mann), two men who each in his own way is living through the Great Depression, one struggling to stay alive, the other flirting with communism, fearing fascism, despairing of capitalism, and having a roaring good time
- Jancar, Drago, Northern Lights. Writings from an Unbound Europe (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001). Drifters; Slovenia; communism; World War II; fiction
- Jones, Dorothy M., When Shadows Fell (Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2002). Communism; USA; social conditions; 1945; fiction
- Kalfus, Ken, The Commissariat of Enlightenment (New York: Ecco, 2003).“… in 1910 in Astapovo … where Leo Tolstoy lies dying of pneumonia. Members of the press from around the world have … been joined by a film company whose young assistant, Nikolai Gribshin, is capturing the extraordinary scene … he comes across two men—the scientist, Professor Vorobev, and the revolutionist, Joseph Stalin—who have bold, mysterious plans for the future that will inevitably involve him. With the coming of the Russian Revolution, Gribshin takes on the nom de guerre Comrade Astapov and joins the Bolshevik ministry of propaganda. In league now with Stalin and Vorobev, he plots to kill Lenin and glorify his embalmed body, promoting a vision of lifeless immortality that will dominate the minds of millions.”
- Kertesz, Imre, Liquidation (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2004). Suicide; Hungarians; middle-aged men; communism; Auschwitz (concentration camp); fiction
- Kohout, Pavel, The Widow Killer (New York: St Martins, 1998). “On the surface a murder mystery but one that follows a Prague police detective's observations on Czech Communists from those who fought on the righteous side in Spain to the opportunists who joined the victors in the 13th hour to reap what they didn’t sow.” (Annotation supplied by Mike Munk.)
- Levitt, Paul M., Dark Matters: A Novel (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004). Triangles (interpersonal relations); women labor union members; anti-communist movements; college students; Boulder (CO); fiction
- Liang, Hsueh-Fen, Yellow Stories (London: Minerva, 2001). Communism; China; fiction
- Lilley, Merv, The Channels (Carlton North, Australia: The Vulgar Press, 2001). Working class; communists; authors; Queensland; fiction
- Lim, Catherine, The Teardrop Story Woman (London: Orion, 1998). Man–woman relationships; Malaysia; communists; Malaya; fiction
- Lord, Bette, Spring Moon: A Novel of China (New York: Perennial, 2004). Women; China; communism and culture; fiction
- Love, Sam, Electric Honey: A Novel (North Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2006). 1960s; marijuana; student protesters; anti- communist movements; University of Mississippi; fiction
- Lourie, Richard, The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin: A Novel (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999)
- Makine, Andrei, Requiem for the East (London: Sceptre, 2002). Communism; Russia (Federation); history; 20th century; fiction
- Mattison, Alice, Hilda and Pearl (New York: Perennial, 2001). “A girl seeks to learn whose daughter she is. … As she probes, the family secret comes out. … The setting is 1930s America with its social tensions reflected in the family. The first brother is a communist, the second is for the status quo.”
- Menendez, Ana, Loving Che (New York: Grove Press, 2003). Che Guevara
- Miller, Arthur, Plain Girl: A Life (London: Methuen, 2000). World War II; communists; New York State; New York; Jewish women; fiction
- Min, Anchee, Wild Ginger (Boston, MA: Mariner Books, 2004). “The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her ‘foreign-colored eyes.’… The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit. She rises quickly through the ranks and is held up as a national model for Maoism. … But Mao's prohibition on romantic love places her in an untenable position.”
- Montefiore, Sebag, My Affair with Stalin (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997). Communism; boarding school students; boys; England; fiction
- Mrozek, Slawomir, “Spring in Poland,” in: Teresa Halikowska, ed., The Eagle and the Crow: Modern Polish Short Stories (London: Serpent's Tail, 1996). “Political satire on communism.”
- Muller, Herta, The Appointment: A Novel (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001). Factories; employees; Romania; women; communism; political persecution; fiction
- Naipaul, V. S., A Way in the World: A Sequence (London: Vintage, 2001). “A collection of narratives on the subject of history and the people who make it …[the] third is about a Panamanian communist in the 1930s.”
- Nason, Tema, Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography: A Novel of Ethel Rosenberg (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002)
- Nelluvely, Joseph, Road from Heaven (Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing Co., 2001). Communism; India; Kerala (India); social conditions; 20th century; social life and customs; fiction
- Norinsky, Sidney, Deadly Farce: A Tale of the Dreaded Red Menace of the Cold War Nineteen Fifties (Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2004). Anti-communist movements; 1950s; Cold War; fiction
- Oeste, Bob, The Last Pumpkin Paper: A Novel (New York: Random House, 1996). “A historical whodunit featuring John Pope, an investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee, as he seeks evidence against Alger Hiss.”
- Ortega, Julio, Ayacucho, Goodbye; Moscow's Gold (Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1994). “Two novellas on the revolution in Peru. … The second traces the relationship of two friends when one discovers the other is a communist.”
- Pelevin, Viktor, The Blue Lantern and Other Stories (New York: New Directions, 1997). “… in ‘Mid-Game,’ young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.”
- Platonov, Andrei Platonovich, The Foundation Pit (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994). Originally published 1930. “A 1930s novel on a disillusioned Russian Communist. He analyzes the manner in which people rationalize their membership in the Communist party, turning a blind eye to its excesses.”
- Potok, Chaim, The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family (New York: Knopf, 1996). Jews; Soviet Union; biography; Jewish communists; refuseniks; fiction
- Potok, Chaim, Davita's Harp (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996). Jewish families; communists; Jews; USA; fiction
- Qiu, Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine (New York: Soho Crime, 2000). Police; China; Shanghai; crimes against young women; murder; investigation; communism; fiction
- Rabb, Jonathan, Rosa: A Novel (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005). Rosa Luxemburg, 1871–1919; fiction
- Rayner, Richard, The Devil's Wind: A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). Organized crime; atomic bomb testing; anti-communist movements; Las Vegas (NV); fiction
- Rosen, Charles, The House of Moses All-Stars: A Novel (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996). “The antics of an all-Jewish basketball team on a road tour in the 1930s … a mixed lot that includes a bank robber, a Zionist, a Communist, and an Irishman posing as a Jew.”
- Roth, Joseph, The Silent Prophet (Trans. David Le Vay) (London: Peter Owen, 2002). Written in 1929, originally published posthumously in 1966. “… a vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders. It focuses on the power struggle between the illegitimate and rootless Friedrich Kargan (based on Trotsky) and the coldly amoral Savelli (Stalin).”
- Roth, Philip, I Married a Communist (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998). “Iron Rinn (né Ira Ringold) is a self-educated radio actor, married to a spoilt, rags-to- riches beauty, silent-film star Eve Frame (née Chave Fromkin). He is a Communist, and a ‘sucker for suffering,’ locked into the cycle of violence from which he has emerged. She has risen by assiduous imitation of what is ‘classy’—which seems to include a wide swathe of anti-Semitism—and ultimately denounces her husband as a Soviet spook.”
- Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things (New York: HarperPerennial, 1998). “The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province.”
- Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep, The Gabriel Club (New Delhi: Penguin, 1998). Anti-communist movements; Hungary; Budapest; fiction
- Ruffner, Sara S., That Beautiful Future: A Novel (Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1998). Women communists; women intellectuals; New York; fiction
- Ryan, Paul Ryder, Kew, the Nepal Maoist Strain: A Novel (Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 2002)
- Sarton, May, Faithful Are the Wounds (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997). Anti-communist movements; USA; gay men; psychology; college teachers; suicide victims; fiction
- Schulman, Sarah, Shimmer (New York: Bard, 1998). “ A trio of stories on life in America in the 40s and 50s, highlighting the conformity and anxiety which existed …[in one] a journalist falls afoul of McCarthyism.”
- Shawhan, Dorothy, Lizzie (Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1995). “A Southern belle turns social rebel in this tale of a Mississippi governor's daughter … who runs away from boarding school, cavorts with Communists … returns home to start a feminist newspaper. … Eventually her father commits her to a lunatic asylum.”
- Simecka, Martin M., The Year of the Frog: A Novel (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Young men; Slovakia; Bratislava; communism; fiction
- Sipos, Thomas M., Vampire Nation (Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, 1998). Communism; Transylvania (Romania); fiction
- Skvorecky, Josef, The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults (Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1993). “In 1971, on a Czech army base, recruits refuse to attend communist indoctrination classes. Leading the revolt is Danny Smiricky, a tank commander with a PhD in philosophy.”
- Smith, L. Neil, Forge of the Elders (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2001). Communism; totalitarianism; fiction (science fiction)
- Stuart, Gary L., The Gallup 14: A Novel (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2000). Anti-communist movements; New Mexico; history; Gallup (NM); fiction
- Teleky, Richard, The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin (South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1998). “The amours of an American Jewess in Paris. After affairs with Algerians, she moves in with a French Communist and it's real love. But he is an alcoholic and dies. A look at immigrant life in France.”
- Throssell, Ric, Tomorrow (North Melbourne, Australia: EM Press, 1997). Jewish women; communists; Australia; fiction
- Topping, Seymour, The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War (New York: PublicAffairs, 1999). “A novel on the Communist conquest of China through the eyes of a CIA agent. He is Eric Jensen, an interpreter hired by the agency to liaise with the Communists, a dangerous assignment as the Nationalists still rule.”
- Westborrk, Kate, The Moneypenny Diaries: Secret Servant (London: John Murray, 2006). Kim Philby
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