Development of socialist and radical groups in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly Communist Workers Party, Workers' Council, and Trotskyites; factional struggles; trips to Moscow, 1925, 1927; International Labor Defense group; publications and editorial work; expulsion from Communist Party; effects of international political events; Socialist Party; split over Nazi-Soviet alliance; visits to Leon Tr otsky in Turkey, Norway, Paris, Mexico; Trotsky's assassination; Independent Socialist League, 1948-58. Impressions of Joseph Stalin, Norman Thomas, Eugene V. Debs, A.J. Muste, and many others
Communism--United States; Political parties--United States; United States Politics and government 20th century; Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972; Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; Communist Party of the United States of America; Socialist Party of the United States of America; Socialist Workers Party; Independent Socialist League