Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950 - Hardcover

by Walter T. Howard (Author)

This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins, growth, and decline of the relatively small but active Marxist-Leninist organization that operated there during the first half of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Walter T. Howard is Associate Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Professor Howard holds a Ph.D. in History from Florida State University.