Socialism before Sanders The 1930s Moment from Romance to Revisionism /

• Main Author: Altman, Jake (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Labor-History.; Social history.; World politics.; US History.; Labor History.; Social History.; Political History.

The early years of the twentieth century are often thought of as socialism's first heyday in the United States, when the Socialist Party won elections across the country and Eugene Debs ran for president from a prison cell, winning more than 900,000 votes. Less well-known is the socialist reviv...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prologue: The Promise of Revival
• 3. Radical Incubators: New York City and the Union Theological Seminary
• 4. The Revolutionary Policy Committee
• 5. Fruits of the Socialist Revival
• 6. Their Party, Their Power: Socialist Women in the 1930s
• 7. While the Men Played Revolution
• 8. The Great Transition: Channeling "A Mighty River"
• 9. Epilogue: Norman Thomas Nostalgia.