"A History of the Communist Party, USA as a Foreign Folicy Instrument o" by Donald H. Meracle Jr.
 

Date of Award

5-1961

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Roman Smal-Stocki

Abstract

Through the years virtually every scholarly consideration of the COMMUNIST MOVEMENT by Western historians and political writers has dealt solely with the Russian and Chinese theatres because there the Marxists have attained power and are in positions of tremendous strength. But shear strength. is not the same as significance for there is absolutely no sound reason why the strongest sections of the Communist Movement should by themselves represent it any more authentically than the weakest of that same organization. Numbers of highly articulate self-proclaimed authorities on Communism have shown by their writings and public utterances that they are dominated completely by this misconception and the reason is that they have looked at only the moat obvious and the moat glaring of the dozens of Communist movements scattered across the vast expanse of the globe. But even during the twenties and thirties COMMUNISM could not be correctly limited merely to either Russia or the Soviet Union as a whole. Certainly today it would be equally as erronious to limit such a survey or discussion to the USSR and the Peoples' Republic of China for since the days of Lenin Communism has not been confined exclusively to just those two countries. Through the last four decades it has played, and continues to play, a decisive role right here in the United States.

Comments

An essay submitted to the Graduate Department of Marquette University in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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