How social movements die : repression and demobilization of the Republic of New Africa / Christian Davenport.

"Met any American communists lately? Between 1919 and the late 1950s, the Communist Party of the United States of America (CP-USA) engaged in a wide variety of challenges directed against the U.S. government and its economic system. Because of this, many aspects of the organization became well known...

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Main Author: Davenport, Christian, 1965-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Physical Description:xvii, 346 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book

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