A Present of Things Past by Theodore Draper

Author:Theodore Draper [Draper, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, International Relations, General
ISBN: 9780809078745
Google: hcLEQgAACAAJ
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1990-01-15T15:59:24+00:00

1 Kenneth Waltzer, Reviews in American History, June 1983, p. 259.

2 Gary Gerstle, Reviews in American History, December 1984, p. 560.

3 Maurice Isserman, Radical America, Vol. 14 (1980), p. 44.

4 Ellen Schrecker, Humanities in Society, Spring–Summer 1983, p. 139.

5 Gerstle, Reviews in American History, pp. 559–66.

6 In These Times, April 4–10, 1984.

7 Roy Rosenzweig, Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1984–85, pp. 758–59.

8 William C. Pratt, Minnesota History, Winter 1984, p. 161.

9 Norman Markowitz, Political Affairs, May 1984, pp. 39–40.

10 Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism (Basic Books, 1984), p. 415.

11 When I left the Communist movement after the full implications of the Nazi-Soviet pact had become clear, none of my friends from the student movement of the early 1930s left with me. Almost none would have anything to do with me—until 1956.

12 Maurice Isserman, Which Side Were You On? (Wesleyan University Press, 1982), p. xi.

13 George Charney, A Long Journey (Quadrangle, 1972), pp. 29, 37, 42–44, 59–60, 124, 143–45, 252, 276.

14 Steve Nelson, James R. Barrett, Rob Ruck, Steve Nelson: American Radical (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), pp. 249, 250, 290, 387, 393.

15 Al Richmond, A Long View from the Left (Houghton Mifflin, 1972), pp. 144–45, 226, 283, 365, 380, 425, 429.

16 Nelson et al., Steve Nelson: American Radical, p. 290.

17 Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (Harvard University Press, 1979), pp. 25, 180, 307, 309.

18 Roy Rosenzweig, International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 1983, pp. 32–33.

19 Waltzer, Reviews in American History. June 1983, pp. 259–60, 266. The same general approach is taken by Gerstle. Reviews in American History, December 1984, pp. 559–66.

20 Gerstle, Reviews in American History, p. 562.

21 Ibid., p. 563.

22 Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism, p. 415.

23 Rosenzweig, International Labor and Working Class History, p. 32.

24 Charney, A Long Journey, p. 59.

25 Gerstle, Reviews in American History, pp. 561, 563–64.

26 I have found only one other alleged anticipation of the Popular Front. In his review of Klehr’s book, Maurice Isserman wrote: “As early as 1932 Communist college students were reaching out to (or huddling together with) their socialist counterparts in common political enterprises” (In These Times, p. 18). This largely apocryphal tale refers to the Communist-led National Student League (NSL) of the early 1930s (I was editor of its magazine, Student Review, in 1934 and 1935). It was considered by the Communists to be a “front” organization and thereby enjoyed more leeway than an official Communist organization.

A National Student Anti-War Conference was held in Chicago in December 1932; it was dominated by pro-Communist delegates but some Socialists and pacifists, willing to follow the lead of the NSL, also attended. Some slight concessions were made to the Socialists in the “minimum program” adopted at the conference, and even these were promptly denounced by the leader of the Young Communist League. Communist and Socialist students continued to treat each other with varying degrees of suspicion and hostility until the American Student Union, a merger of the National Student League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy, was formed in December 1935.

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