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Title: The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929
START DATE: 5/7/2015
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: west los angeles, beaches
Location Details:
The Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, 4130 Overland Avenue, Culver City
Event Topic: History
Event Type: literary event
Contact Name: Prometheus Research Library
Contact Email: slsycla@sbcglobal.net
Contact Phone: 213-380-8239
DESCRIPTION:
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prl-booklaunch.jpg, image/jpeg, 1701x2201 BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION: Amid the barbarism of WWI, the working class under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party seized state power in November 1917, pulled Russia out of the war, and announced that the world socialist revolution had begun. Jacob Zumoff's new book, The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929, examines how the early American Communist movement was inspired by this first successful workers revolution in history. Zumoff's research makes use of original documents in the Comintern archives that had been closed to earlier historians of the American Communist Party. Zumoff's book refutes the myth of destructive Moscow domination of the American party in the early 1920s. In contrast, he shows that the Comintern in Lenin and Trotsky's era guided the nascent American Communist movement to grapple with the unique challenges to working-class unity in this capitalist society founded on black chattel slavery. Moscow thus helped "Americanize" early U.S. Communism by emphasizing that the fight for socialist revolution and the struggle for black liberation are inextricably linked. The later degeneration of the Russian Revolution under Stalin (after 1924) and its impact on the history of American Communism are also examined.

Jacob Zumoff received his doctorate in history from the University of London, and researches labor and black history. He has taught at several universities, most recently as a visiting professor at New Jersey City University. He is a research associate of the Prometheus Research Library.

This event is sponsored by the Prometheus Research Library, a working archive of American and international Marxist history, documentation, and related interests.
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