American Communist History_, 2, no. 2 (Winter 2003)

Symposium on the Historiography of American Communism

Bryan D. Palmer, “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism.”

James R. Barrett, “The History of American Communism and Our Understanding of Stalinism.”

John Earl Haynes, “Poison or Cancer?: Stalinism and American Communism.”

Melvyn Dubofsky, “The Devil is Not in the Details: He is Stalin!”

John McIlroy, “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: A Comment.”

Bryan D. Palmer, “Communist History: Seeing It Whole. A Reply to Critics.”

Peter Meyer Filardo, “United States & Comparative Communist History:
Bibliography 2002.”

Reviews

Lee Bernstein, _The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America_, Culture, Politics, and the Cold War (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002). Reviewed by Thomas Doherty

J. Peter Campbell, _Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way_ (Montreal [Qué.] Ithaca [N.Y.]: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999). Reviewed by Geoffrey Ewen

Aryeh Neier, _Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights_ (New
York: PublicAffairs, 2003). Reviewed by William James Hull Hoffer

John A. Salmond, _The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama_ (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2002). Reviewed by James C. Giesen

Ellen Schrecker, _The Age of McCarthyism a Brief History with Documents_ (New
York: Palgrave, 2002). Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Coker.

Athan G. Theoharis, _Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years_ (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002). Reviewed by Scott Lucas.