The Historiography of Communism

In this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies, and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Taken together, the essays in this book offer a distinctive approach to the connections between social theory, criticism, and historiography and to what is "social" about "social movements."

Michael E. Brown is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and former Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of Collective Behavior (with Amy Goldman) and The Production of Society as well as the co-editor (with Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten and George Snedeker) of Recent Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism.