...This chapter focuses on the aftermath of the February 1936 elections, which returned the left to power. It discusses the tasks faced by the new government; the problem of the military; increasing tensions within the Socialist ranks following the electoral victory; the role of the Communists...

...This chapter discusses information regarding MI5 targeting of foreign missions and diplomats. This information revealed that surveillance of the activities of foreign missions in the United Kingdom and also the investigation of foreigners and Communists was the task of what is called the Security...

..., as a student and young academic, sought the company of communists and subscribed to party funds. But he was also ashamed of his Jewish background and craved acceptance by the Establishment. The chapter digs into his ‘triumph’ in July 1945 after the successful testing of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico...

... movement Violence and CNT Azañn Manuel and Acción Republicana Milicias Antifascistas Obreras y Campesinas Worker Peasant Antifascist Militias MAOC Revolutionary insurrection of 1934 and breakdown of Second Republic Socialists and Republican coalition Spanish Communist Party Partido Comunista de...

... of totalitarianism in the context of Soviet historiography, along with the limitations of revisionist historical accounts of Stalinism. Finally, it rejects the notion that modernity had something to do with the monstrous violence fomented by the National Socialists and communists in the first half of the twentieth...

...This chapter reveals how many Cubans increasingly associated support for the armed opposition with anti-Communism and disdain for the Partido Socialist Popular (Popular Socialist Party, PSP) with hatred of Batista for two reasons. First, Cuba's Communists continued other traditional political...

.... This chapter examines the factors that account for the triumph of revolutionary extremism and the success of the Bolsheviks in Russia. It looks at how the Bolsheviks assimilated the anticapitalist principle, the role of capitalism and anticapitalism in the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Communists...

... with him. Commu Nazis Nazi Soviet Pact Communist Party of the United States CPUSA Vultee Aircraft Corporation Young Communist League Elitcher Max Sobell Morton Radar Signal Corps Laboratories V 1 rockets Rosenberg Julius Daily Worker Osheroff Abraham Pogarsky Marcus Pogarsky Stella Rosenberg...

...When the Comintern sent a letter to several national parties emphasizing the need for unity with the Socialists, the French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français [PCF]) started negotiations with the French Socialists that same day. The PCF proposed a unity pact with the Socialists providing...

...This chapter discusses Munzenberg's attitude toward German political affairs after his arrest in Stuttgart during the Spartacist uprising of 1919. He remained largely aloof from German political affairs, and like most Communists in Berlin, had been caught off guard by the right-wing Kapp Putsch...

... would come around to his point of view and build a true anti-Hitler coalition for seizing power in Germany—and he still wanted this coalition to be led by Communists. Although he knew his life was in mortal danger due to NKVD surveillance of his movements, Munzenberg steadfastly refused to break his...

... as a replacement for capitalism in terms of accumulating capital and developing the productive forces of society. In Russia, production socialism formed the foundation of the Communists' betrayal of democratic and egalitarian ideals as well as their creation of the so-called bureaucratic state capitalism...

... as women's struggles with the conflicts of work, sex, love, maternity, and politics. The novel focuses on the lives of two women, Molly and Anna, their problems as divorced women with children to raise, their disillusionments as former Communists, among other subjects. novel Irving Howe The Golden Notebook...

... to Russian communism; Spanish Communists' efforts to gain new followers; and attempts to re-establish the alliance between Republicans and Socialists. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the Spanish Popular Front. Alcalá Zamora Niceto and Republican center right Portela Valladares Manuel as governor...

... totals in the popular vote, made more confusing by the functioning of the alliance system. One of the most remarkable results was that, ultimately, seventeen of the twenty-two Communist candidates gained seats. Alcalá Zamora Niceto and Republican center right Elections of 1936 polarization in Portela...

...This chapter examines the Spanish revolutionary movements in the Spring of 1936. The discussions include the anarchosyndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo; the increasing gap between the Socialist “left” and “center”; Communist policy; the revolutionary position held by the Partido Obrero...

...This chapter discusses the main theme of this book written by Josef Mackiewicz in 1962, which is about the damage caused by communism. It explains that the main target of Mackiewicz is communism and the willingness of non-communists to propitiate it and to seek coexistence, particularly those who...

...From the first free elections in post-Soviet Russia in 1989 to the end of the Yeltsin period in 1999, Russia's parliament was the site of great political upheavals. Conflicts between communists and reformers generated constant turmoil, and twice parliamentary institutions broke down in violence...