Red America

Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950

Kostis Karpozilos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

211 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-855-3 (ISBN)

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Historians of immigration and ethnicity in the United States have typically devoted little attention to Greek Americans, while popular narratives depict them as indifferent or hostile to political and social radicalism. From acclaimed historian Kostis Karpozilos, Red America provides an alternative narrative of the Greek American experience. Focusing on the history of the Greek American Left from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Cold War, this volume uncovers the threads that bound notions of radical social change to everyday immigrant life, tracing ethnic radicalism from the boundaries of a specific community to the epicenter of American social and political history.

Kostis Karpozilos is the Director of the Greek Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI) and teaches history at Panteion University. In the past he has worked and taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Oxford Universities. He is currently completing a transnational history of Greek communism.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Radicals of Two Worlds

     Workers of the World

     Workers of the World, Unite!

     Tsars, Slaves, and American Flags

     Radical Diaspora

     Organōsis: Socialism as Education

     Ē Phonē tou Ergatou: Waiting for the Revolution

     Great Expectations, Lost Illusions

Chapter 2. Americanizing Communism

     “Be American!”

     Diasporic Communism

     Party Life

     “Taxisyneidēsia”: Greek-American Class Consciousness

     Organizing the Unorganizable

     Fur Workers or Greek Fur Workers?

     Non-Revolutionary Times

Chapter 3. Crisis and Revolution

     The Arthritis Doctrine

     Community Troubles

     Drachmas, Dollars, and Bank Panics

     Hungry Revolutionaries: The Unemployed Councils

     Workers’ Mutual Aid

     Soviet America

     The New Deal

     The Great Turmoil

Chapter 4. Turmoil and Compromise

     Red, American and Greek Flags

     The Greek-American Popular Front

     Working-Class Stories

     Furs: A Greek-American story

     A Bitter End

Chapter 5. Planning the Future

     America Needs Me, I Need America

     Visions of a New World

     Remnants of the “Old World”

     Double Ambassadors

     The Unpredictability of History

Chapter 6. Cold War Nation

     The Great Transition

     Liberals in Crisis

     Under Surveillance

     Anticommunist International

     Greek-American Anticommunism

     The Last Page

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80073-855-2 / 1800738552
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-855-3 / 9781800738553
Zustand	Neuware