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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video examining the history of the CPUSA, the Communist Party of the USA, from its origins to the role it played in the United States during the Cold War How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE #ColdWar #UnitedStates #Communism #CPUSA #CommunistParty #USA Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv **SOURCES** Against the Current. 1996. "The Communist Party and the CIO." Against the Current 63. https://againstthecurrent.org/atc063/p2363/. 2. "A Few of the Communist Women Who Shaped U.S. History." 2023. Communist Party USA. https://www.cpusa.org/article/a-few-of-the-communist-women-who-shaped-u-s-history/. 3. American Historical Association. 2000. "Moscow’s Archives and the New History of the Communist Party of the United States." Perspectives on History, October. https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/moscows-archives-and-the-new-history-of-the-communist-party-of-the-united-states-october-2000/. 4. Barrett, James R. 1981. "The Influence of the Left in American Labor Historiography." Labor History 22 (4): 477–92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2988978. 5. Bentley, Eric. 1977. "The Meaning of the American Communist Party." Studies in Comparative Communism 10 (1–2): 119–32. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039359277800604. 6. Communist Party USA. 2019. "History of the CPUSA." Democratic Socialists of America. https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/history_of_the_cpusa_dl/. 7. Countryman, Matthew. 2002. "From Protest to Politics: Community Organizations and Economic Justice in Detroit, 1953–1993." Journal of Urban History 28 (5): 646–68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42977762. 8. Draper, Theodore. 1957. "The Roots of American Communism." The American Historical Review 62 (3): 583–84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1948827. 9. Enstad, Nan. 2018. "The 'Soviet Threat' and the Creation of Modern Capitalism." Feminist Studies 44 (1): 13–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.44.1.0013. 10. Foner, Philip S. 1975. The History of the Labor Movement in the United States. New York: International Publishers. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25610047. 11. "History of the Communist Party USA." 2019. Jacobin Magazine, December. https://jacobin.com/2019/12/communist-party-usa-history. 12. "How the Communist Party USA Shaped the American Left." 2024. Jacobin Magazine, September. https://jacobin.com/2024/09/communist-party-us-history-review. 13. New York University. n.d. "Communist Party of the USA Records." Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/tam_132/. 14. Oklahoma Historical Society. n.d. "Communist Party in Oklahoma." The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CO040. 15. ScienceDirect. 1977. "The Meaning of the American Communist Party." Studies in Comparative Communism 10 (1–2): 119–32. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039359277800604. 16. Smith, Jennifer. 2020. Seeing Red: A Historiographical Study of the American Communist Movement During the Interwar Period. Texas Woman’s University. https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Seeing-Red-A-Historiographical-Study-of-the-American-Communist-Movement-During-the-Interwar-Period.pdf. 17. University of South Florida. n.d. Tampa Bay History: Books and Monographs. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/hty_books_tpa/6/. 18. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. n.d. "Communist Party USA and Soviet Influence." https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-01226R000100140026-0.pdf. 19. Weir, Stan. 1982. "Communism and American Labor: The Case of Harry Bridges." International Labor and Working-Class History 21: 56–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25769061. 20. Wolff, Richard D. 2014. "The Legacy of the Communist Party USA." The American Economic Review 104 (5): 82–86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41889957.