Reminiscences of Max Shachtman, 1963

Scope and Contents

Development of socialist and radical groups in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly Communist Workers Party, Workers' Council, and Trotskyites; factional struggles; trips to Moscow, 1925, 1927; International Labor Defense group; publications and editorial work; expulsion from Communist Party; effects of international political events; Socialist Party; split over Nazi-Soviet alliance; visits to Leon Trotsky in Turkey, Norway, Paris, Mexico; Trotsky's assassination; Independent Socialist League, 1948-58. Impressions of Joseph Stalin, Norman Thomas, Eugene V. Debs, A.J. Muste, and many others

Subjects

• Chodes, Stephen, interviewer.
• Communism--United States.
• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Hogan, Thomas F., interviewer.
• Independent Socialist League.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political parties--United States.
• Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972--Interviews.
• Socialist Party of the United States of America.
• Socialist Workers Party.
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972