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The Strangest Dream
originally published by Syracuse University Press (May 2000) Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II. This association gave proponents of the Cold War a powerful weapon with which to try to silence the opposition. This weapon - anti-communism - was extremely effective until the early 1960s and its effects linger even today. The persecution of peace activists as subversives dates back to the colonial era, but the specific link between communism and peace developed out of the unique conditions of the Cold War.Communist agitation for pea...
Rude Awakenings
The story of a man navigating an era of upheaval, persecution, and suspicion: “A must read for students of 20th-century political and intellectual history.” —Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies Education, New York University Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, Carol Sicherman traces Harry Marks’s German American heritage, his education both formal and informal, his marriage to a fellow Communist from a poor Russian family, his rocky start as an academic, his anguish when confronted by his Communist past, and his ultimate creation of a satisfying career....
The Role of Organized Labor in the Vocational Training and Placement of Hard-core Youth
USA. Report on a pilot study in massachusetts to ascertain the potential role of trade unions in combatting juvenile delinquency - describes various local level projects involving the provision of vocational guidance and vocational training in prison training centres for youthful prisoners and the provision of employment service facilities to assist offenders in finding employment opportunities on their release from correctional institutions, etc.
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