Great Depression
Growing up as a communist kid in the 1930s
September 23, 2019I didn't always understand the nuances of the political arguments advanced at the big gatherings, but I always felt comfortable in the warmth of a movement that had as its professed goals brotherhood of peoples and...
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The Communist Party in the ’30s: The Depression and the great upsurge
May 14, 2019When the Depression struck, Herbert Hoover and the business press said to wait for economic adjustment. But unemployed and hungry people couldn't wait.
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