Oral history interview with William O'Neill, 1994

Biographical Note

Historian

Scope and Contents

New York intellectuals, Jewish, Marxist, Socialist context; communism and socialism compared; Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), origins, membership, control by Soviet Union, roots in trade union movement, influence; opposition to CPUSA, Trotskyist movement; Max Eastman as example; anticommunism, origins of, dilemmas of, and New York intellectuals; Waldorf Conference 1948

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• O'Neill, William L.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman