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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Immigrant Leadership in the CPUSA | 19 |
Jewish Leadership in the CPUSA | 37 |
Black Leadership in the CPUSA | 53 |
Female Leadership in the CPUSA | 70 |
Leaving the CPUSA | 83 |
A Profile of the Party Leadership | 101 |
Conclusion | 115 |
Notes | 121 |
| 131 | |
| 137 | |
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Common terms and phrases
American Communism American Communist Party attracted backgrounds Basis of American became Ben Gitlow blue-collar born Central Committee members charter members Comintern Communism and Soviet Daily Worker defectors Earl Browder early ETHNIC ORIGIN ex-communists expelled factional foreign-born Jews foreign-born leaders foreign-born members foreign-born party Gitlow Glazer Ibid immigrants included Jay Lovestone Jewish Jews John Gates joined the CPUSA joined the party labor language federations large numbers Left CPUSA left the CPUSA left the party Melech Epstein MEMBERS BY BIRTHPLACE MEMBERS BY RACE Nathan Glazer natives Negro non-Jewish non-Jews number of committees organization party cadres party careers party figures party leadership party members party membership Party Status party-cadre sample party's percent percentage of blacks period political positions prominent reach the Central recruits remained role SCORES OF CENTRAL served Social Basis Socialist Soviet Russia substantial Table Theodore Draper tion Trotskyists U.S. Congress United white-collar Whittaker Chambers William Z
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Page 137 - US Congress, House, Un-American Activities Committee. Investigation of Communist Activities in the State of Michigan. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1954.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Communist Cadre: The Social Background of the American Communist Party Elite Volume 198 of Hoover Institution publication, ISSN 0073-3296 |
| Author | Harvey A. Klehr |
| Publisher | Hoover Press, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0817969837, 9780817969837 |
| Length | 141 pages |
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