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Book SynopsisTransnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. It convincingly illustrates that communist parties were both deeply rooted in their own local realities and maintained significant relationships with other communists across the region and around the world. The essays in this collection use a transnational lens to examine the relationships of the region's communist parties with each other, their international counterparts, and non-communist groups dedicated to anti-imperialism, women's rights, and other causes. Topics include the shifting relationship between Mexican communists and the Comintern, Black migrant workers in the Caribbean, race relations in Cuba, Latin American communists in the USSR, Luís Carlos Prestes in Brazil, the U.S. and Puerto Rican communist and Nationalist parties, peace activist networks in Latin America, communist women in Guatemala, transnational student groups, and guerrillas in El Salvador. Con
Trade Review“An important contribution for those interested in studying the Latin American politics of the twentieth century and for those who study the global history of communism. These works develop different transnational perspectives that inspire us to think about the exchanges of ideas and people between the communist world and the Latin American left, and the challenges and dilemmas that these experiences faced.”--Aldo Marchesi, author of
Latin America’s Radical Left: Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960sTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the National to the Transnational
Marc Becker, Margaret M. Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob Zumoff
Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-43)
1. The Comintern, the Mexican Communist Party, and the “Sandino Case”: The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-30
Lazar Jeifets and Victor Jeifets
2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s
Jacob A. Zumoff
3. The “Negro Question” in Cuba, 1928-36
Frances Peace Sullivan
4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-36
Tony Wood
5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-35
Jacob Blanc
Part II: Latin American Communism in the Cold War Frame (1945-89)
6. Latin America and the Communist World in the Early 1950s: The Networks of Soviet Pacifism and Latin American Anti-Imperialism
Adriana Petra
7. Breaking the Silence: Communist Women, Transnationalism, and the Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca, 1947-54
Patricia Harms
8. A Political and Transnational Ménage a Trois: The Communist Party USA, the Puerto Rican Communist Party, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1934-45
Margaret M. Power
9. Transnational Youth and Student Groups in the 1950s
Marc Becker
10. Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the “People’s War” Strategy
Kevin A. Young
Afterword: Remapping the Past
Tanya Harmer
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
