Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War America: The Daily Worker and the Great Depression [Hardcover]

This book shows that press-orientated agitation and propaganda efforts, delivered through newspapers such as theThe Daily Worker,played a key role in the political strategy of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) as they rose to unprecedented cultural prominence and political influence.

On the eve of the Cold War, whenThe Daily Workercould be found on newsstands throughout the country and could boast sales of nearly 50,000, the party regarded the paper as the 'central organ' of their political movement. Arguing that this strategy closely aligned with the desires of their Soviet superiors in the Communist International (Comitern), who regularly intervened in the paper's affairs, Prown shows how it maintained a stringently pro-Soviet line, and its editors became not dupes or naifs, but willing Stalinist collaborators. Delving into the editorial policies and practices ofThe Daily Workerin those trying times,Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War Americaprovides insights into the forgotten world of American Bolshevism and the murky history of political propaganda.

This book explores the role of propaganda and press, particularlyThe Daily Worker, in the political strategy of the Communist Party of the United States as it achieved an unprecedented degree of cultural and political influence at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry H. Prownis the 2022-25 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies and an instructor in the History, Classics, and Religion Department at University of Alberta, Canada. He is a specialist on the transnational history of Communism and the relationship between Stalinism and the American media in the mid-20th Century.

A sobering account of how a generation of left-wing Americans were deceived. Throughout the great depression of the 1930s the Daily Worker -- official newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA  worked to stir up public opinion in the United States. It drew botlóÞ