{"product_id":"red-chicago-9780252076381","title":"Red Chicago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRealities of the street-level American Communist experience during the worst years of the Depression\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging look at the final years of Chicago's reign as the left-wing capital of America.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRed Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution, integrating Communist history into the broader history of the working class and challenging the recent historiography that has dismissed the local context in favor of a top-down view.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Illinois History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An interesting story of a period of labor activity in the city that eventually sparked much more worker organizing than would be found in a number of other U.S. cities. Indeed, this is the period that fostered Chicago's eventual image as 'a labor town.'\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Union Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Storch's solid new book . . . [is] the beginning of a 'fourth wave' of historiography of the American Communist Party.\"--\u003ci\u003eHistory: Review of New Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Storch's] thoroughly researched study puts a 'human face' on American Communism by contextualizing the experiences of party members.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Urban\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Storch's new book effectively kicks off the beginning of a new wave of American Communist Party historiography. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRed Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is thoroughly researched, the prose lucid and felicitous, and its arguments clearly made. This is Storch's first book, and it marks her as a young historian of promise.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A must-read and a thrilling story for anyone interested in learning the tactics and hidden history of the CP's mass organizing in the 1930s.\"--\u003ci\u003eInternational Socialist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A first-rate study of social thought, protest and action.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Communist History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRed Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e provides a wealth of new information about Chicago area Communists and breaks new ground in charting their activities at the grassroots level. In doing so, Storch speaks directly to a long-running debate about the nature of the Communist Party's connections to the American working class, coming down clearly and forcefully on the side that sees the Party as rooted in an indigenous culture of labor radicalism rather than simply a creature of the Soviet Union. . . . An impressive and well-written book.\"--Rick Halpern, author of \u003ci\u003eDown on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRed Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is the most thorough and comprehensive case study in defense of the argument that local conditions shaped Communist policies, often anticipating changes in Party direction. What makes Storch's study particularly compelling is her ability to bring together what have often been considered to be contending interpretations: one emphasizing local initiatives and the other highlighting dependency on Moscow. This book makes a persuasive case that there needs to be a more nuanced interpretation that combines the strengths of both.\"--Paul Lyons, author of \u003ci\u003eThe People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sam Hammersmark's Chicagos   9\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolutionary Recruitment: Numbers and Experience   31\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"True Revolutionaries\": Chicago's Party Culture in Thought and Action   64\u003cbr\u003e 4. Red Relief   99\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Abolish Capitalism\": The Trade Union Unity League's Potential and Problems   130\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Generals Are of No Use without an Army\": How and Why Communists Abandoned the TUUL   164\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"Not That These Youths Are Geniuses\": Young Communists Move from the Margins to the Mainstream   187\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue   214\u003cbr\u003e Notes   231\u003cbr\u003e Index   289","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400484102487,"sku":"9780252076381","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252076381.jpg?v=1730470799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-chicago-9780252076381","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}