Communist Party of the United States of America : [papers]. [1913-1960].

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Communist Party of the United States of America : [papers]. [1913-1960].

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The CPUSA was the most important American radical organization from its factionalized 1919 origins well into the 1950s. This collection consists of works published by and about the Communist Party and its front organizations, books, pamphlets, newspapers and mimeographed reports dating from 1913-1960. Since this collection was acquired in 1960 many items have been separated to receive item level cataloging. These are located in the American Radicalism Collection.

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Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...