Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky is the author of "Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA" and author/editor of "Faith In The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA." His forthcoming book is titled "The Cancer of Colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker, 1944-1946." Pecinovsky has appeared on C-SPAN’s "Book TV" and speaks regularly on college and university campuses across the country.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky

Culture

How Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World
January 16, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.
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Politics

Review: “To The Promised Land,” King’s fight for economic justice
January 13, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
As a short book, Honey’s To The Promised Land packs quite a punch.
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CP100

‘Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice’: A welcome new book
October 28, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The story of Chicano Communists is a quintessential American one and absolutely relevant to our understanding of who we are as a nation.
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Culture

“Intersectional before it was cool”: The women’s movement during state socialism
October 3, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
Without a doubt, the Cold War was a very productive moment for women's rights because the Eastern Bloc once championed them on the international stage.
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Culture

Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
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World

Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world
August 20, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
"Like a brilliant sun, the [1917] October [Bolshevik] Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world."
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Culture

IWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures
August 19, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The International Workers Order was an insurance company like none ever seen - a Communist-led mutual aid society to shield its members from capitalist evils.
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Politics

2020 elections and organizational questions dominate Democratic Socialists of America convention
August 6, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
“Unity is hard to build,” one delegate said. “It’s messy. There will be bumps in the road. It can be frustrating, but it’s something we have to deal with.”
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