Soldiers of the International : A History of the Communist Party of Canada, 1919-1929 / William Rodney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodney, William, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist Party of Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Soldiers of the International covers the origins and growth of the Canadian party in detail and shows that its programme and development paralleled those of other Communist parties throughout the world.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; KEY TO PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS; 1 The Roots of Canadian Socialism; 2 The Years of Uncertainty and Unrest: 1917-1919; 3 The Birth of the Canadian Communist Party; 4 The Rise of the Workers' Party; 5 Underground Operations and the CPC; 6 The CPC and the Fourth Comintern Congress; 7 The CPC and the United Front; 8 The Emergence of the Canadian Communist Party; 9 Bolshevization and the Canadian Party; 10 The Interim Years: 1924-1925; 11 The CPC and the Canadian Labor Party; 12 The CPC and the Trade Union Educational League; 13 Canadian Party Life: 1925-1926

14 The Seventh Plenum, Comintern Proposals, and Canadian Party Policies15 The Rise of Canadian Trotskyism; 16 North American Exceptionalism and the Triumph of Stalinism in Canada; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX A Biographical Notes; APPENDIX B CPC Representation at Comintern and Profintern Congresses and Plenums; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8331-1

OCLC:

1129188716