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Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism, 2002, Volume 21, No 2. Dan Leab, General
Secretary – Ronald Cohen, President – John Earl Haynes, Editor
This issue of the Newsletter contains among the Research Queries And Research In Progress information about
the 1930s activities of Michael Ross, the biography of Louis Budenz, a graduate student conference on The Red
Scare after 1945 and the Reconsidering the Cold War and a call for papers of The Society for the Study of
Working-Class Literature. The Archival column comprises a note on the Paperless Archives and on Bruce
Craig’s The Hiss/ Chambers Controversy: Records of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The column
about Web Sites, Videos And Documentaries contains notes on Freda Utley, the On-line edition of the British
Communist History Network Newsletter, the Communist Chronicles, a Web site founded by Norwegian,
Russian, and British historians, the Communism in Washington State-History and Memory project about The
Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State. The column Writings On The History Of American Communism
redacted by John Earl Haynes lists articles, books, papers, and films relevant to American communism, splinter
movements, and domestic anticommunism, some of them with a short commentary, such as: Alexis Albion on
Politics and Culture in the Spy Stories of the 1960s, Arnold Beichman on the Gouzenko affair, Marcella
Bencivenni about Italian American Radicalism in New York City, Don Binkowski on Leo Krzycki and Polish
Americans in the American Labor Movement, Gordon Black on the Unemployed movement in the Early
1930s, Puhle Buhle and Dave Wagner on The Left and Popular Culture (Film and Television), Anthony Carew et
al. on The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, George Cerny on the reaction of Maryland
Communists to Venon Pedersen’s Communist Party in Maryland, Frank K. Clarke on Cold War Anti-
Communism at the Toronto Board of Education, 1948–1951, Donald T. Critchlow and Agnieszka Critchlow on
excerpts from Gulag survisor literature that shaped the views on American anti-Communists, Stéphanie
Curwick on War and Red Scare (1940–1960), Victor G. Devinatz on Walter Reuther’s affiliation with the
Communist Party in the latter half of the 1930s, Joshua B. Freeman on New York’s left culture in the 1940s and
early 1950s, A. Gounot on the structures and characteristics of the Red Sport International, 1921–1937, James
Gregory on the History of Communism in Washington State, Brian Grijalva on the unemployed movement in
the 1930s and 1940s, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr on the Myth of ›Premature Antifascism‹ concerning
Brigades veterans in British covert operations against Nazi Germany prior to the Nazi attack on the USSR,
Maurice Isserman and Ellen Schrecker on evidence of espionage from Major Andre’s Boot to the Venona Files,
Daniel Kelly about the Life of James Burnham, Roger Kimball on Burnham’s contributions to anticommunism,
Michael Kimmage on William F. Buckley and the intellectual origins of ›Populist Conservatism‹, Harvey Klehr
and John Earl Haynes Critique on Paul Buhles essays on Communist secret work in the Enclopedia of the
American Left, Daeha Ko on the »Rough Beginnings« in the 1920s, Helen Laville on U.S. representations of
Soviet women in film, Gerda Lerner on her role in the CPUSA, Andree Levesque on »la culture internationale et
l’identitaire communiste au Canada pendant l’entre-deux-guerres«, Timothy McCarthy, Timothy Patrick and
John McMillian on the American radical tradition, Erik McDuffie on four black women activists in the American