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A communist odyssey

The life of J¢zsef Pog ny/John Pepper

By: Thomas Sakmyster

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A communist odyssey

The life of J¢zsef Pog ny/John Pepper

By: Thomas Sakmyster

A group of Central European communists, most of them Hungarians, in the interwar period served the world communist movement as international cadres of the Comintern, the Moscow-based Communist International. As an important member of this cohort, J¢zsef Pog ny played a major role in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, the ?March Action? in Germany in 1921, and, under the name of John Pepper, in the development of the American Communist Party of the 1920s. During the 1920s he was an important official in the Comintern apparatus and undertook missions on three continents. A prolific writer and effective organizer, he was one of the most flamboyant and controversial communists of his era. Some of his comrades praised him as ?the Hungarian Christopher Columbus.? Others, like Trotsky, called him a ?political parasite.? This study is based on newly available primary sources from Hungary, Russia, and the United States; it is the first ever written about this colorful and well-travelled Hungarian communist. Examines Pog ny?s development as a socialist and communist, the influence of his Jewish origins on his career, the reasons for his remarkable success in the United States, and the circumstances that led to his arrest and execution in the Stalinist terror. ÿ

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Central European University Press

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6155225087

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Red Conspirator

J. Peters and the American Communist Underground

By: Thomas L. Sakmyster

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Red Conspirator

J. Peters and the American Communist Underground

By: Thomas L. Sakmyster

The author traces Peters's activities from his arrival in the United States to the dawn of the Cold War and his deportation back to Hungary. Known as the "Hungarian man of mystery," Peters emigrated to the United States in 1924 after serving in the Austrian Army during World War I. In America, he oversaw a false passport operation that facilitated the movement of Soviet agents to the United States and American communists to the Soviet Union. Working under a number of aliases, he constructed a complex network of informants and spies that stole numerous State Department documents in the 1930s. After years of hiding underground he was arrested and deported in 1949. The author reveals Peters to be not just the influential leader of conspiratorial Communist activities but also an organizer in the open American Communist party. The author of a handbook on Communism, Peters also set up a program to infiltrate the armed forces in the United States.

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University of Illinois Press

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Red Conspirator

J. Peters and the American Communist Underground

By: Thomas L. Sakmyster

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J. Peters and the American Communist Underground

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Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism

By: Thomas W. Devine

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Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism

By: Thomas W. Devine

In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, and not the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed the primary threat to the nation. He even welcomed Communists into his campaign, admiring their commitment to peace. Focusing on what Wallace himself later considered his campaign's most important aspect, the troubled relationship between non-Communist progressives like himself and members of the American Communist Party, Thomas W. Devine demonstrates that such an alliance was not only untenable but, from the perspective of the American Communists, undesirable, as well.

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1469602032

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Making Men, Making Class

The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920

By: Thomas Winter

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Making Men, Making Class

The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920

By: Thomas Winter

Acknowledgments1. The YMCA, Gender, Class, and Social Change, 1877-1920: An Introduction2. "A Zeal for Religious Work and an Open Door of Opportunity": YMCA Secretaries and Nineteenth-Century Ideals of Manhood3. "We Have Only to Step in and Occupy the Land": The YMCA, Labor Conflict, and the Rise of Welfare Capitalism4. "To Aid in the Upbuilding of Character": The YMCA, Welfare Capitalism, and a Language of Manhood5. "A Most Effective Ally in the Work of Labor Advancement": Workingmen and the YMCA6. "None of Your Milk-and-Water Sops, Flabby-Handed and Mealy-Mouthed, for Dealing with Such Men": The YMCA, the Secretaryship, and Professionalization7. Personality, Character, and Self-Expression: The YMCA and a Language of Manhood and ClassConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226902307

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A Communist Odyssey

The life of József Pogány/John Pepper

By: Thomas Sakmyster

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A Communist Odyssey

The life of József Pogány/John Pepper

By: Thomas Sakmyster

A group of Central European communists, most of them Hungarians, in the interwar period served the world communist movement as international cadres of the Comintern, the Moscow-based Communist International. As an important member of this cohort, József Pogány played a major role in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, the "March Action" in Germany in 1921, and, under the name of John Pepper, in the development of the American Communist Party of the 1920s. During the 1920s he was an important official in the Comintern apparatus and undertook missions on three continents. A prolific writer and effective organizer, he was one of the most flamboyant and controversial communists of his era. Some of his comrades praised him as "the Hungarian Christopher Columbus." Others, like Trotsky, called him a "political parasite."This study is based on newly available primary sources from Hungary, Russia, and the United States; it is the first ever written about this colorful and well-travelled Hungarian communist. Examines Pogány's development as a socialist and communist, the influence of his Jewish origins on his career, the reasons for his remarkable success in the United States, and the circumstances that led to his arrest and execution in the Stalinist terror.

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LIFE OF THOMAS STORY CAREFULLY

By: Thomas 1662-1742 Story,John 1726-1815 Ed Kendall

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LIFE OF THOMAS STORY CAREFULLY

By: Thomas 1662-1742 Story,John 1726-1815 Ed Kendall

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