edited by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood and Jacob A. Zumoff
contributions by Victor Jeifets, Adriana Petra, Margaret Power, Frances Peace Sullivan, Kevin A Young, Tony Wood, Jacob A. Zumoff, Marc Becker, Jacob Blanc, Tanya Harmer, Patricia Harms and Lazar Jeifets
University of Illinois Press, 2023
Paper: 978-0-252-08736-3 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05474-7 | Cloth: 978-0-252-04522-6
Library of Congress Classification HX110.5.A6T73 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 335.43098

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Transnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. It convincingly illustrates that communist parties were both deeply rooted in their own local realities and maintained significant relationships with other communists across the region and around the world. The essays in this collection use a transnational lens to examine the relationships of the region’s communist parties with each other, their international counterparts, and non-communist groups dedicated to anti-imperialism, women’s rights, and other causes. Topics include the shifting relationship between Mexican communists and the Comintern, Black migrant workers in the Caribbean, race relations in Cuba, Latin American communists in the USSR, Luís Carlos Prestes in Brazil, the U.S. and Puerto Rican communist and Nationalist parties, peace activist networks in Latin America, communist women in Guatemala, transnational student groups, and guerrillas in El Salvador.

Contributors: Marc Becker, Jacob Blanc, Tanya Harmer, Patricia Harms, Lazar Jeifets, Victor Jeifets, Adriana Petra, Margaret M. Power, Frances Peace Sullivan, Tony Wood, Kevin A. Young, and Jacob Zumoff