American Communist History_, 2, no. 2 (Winter 2003)
Symposium on the Historiography of American Communism
Bryan D. Palmer, “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism.â€
James R. Barrett, “The History of American Communism and Our Understanding of Stalinism.â€
John Earl Haynes, “Poison or Cancer?: Stalinism and American Communism.â€
Melvyn Dubofsky, “The Devil is Not in the Details: He is Stalin!â€
John McIlroy, “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: A Comment.â€
Bryan D. Palmer, “Communist History: Seeing It Whole. A Reply to Critics.â€
Peter Meyer Filardo, “United States & Comparative Communist History:
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