Underground Notes
By Mihajlo Mihajlov (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
Communism
Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism
By Jiwei Ci (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Behind the profound social and economic changes now taking place in China is a complex history of communism's invention and loss of meaning. This history, from 1949 to the present, has been extensively studied by scholars using the methods of history and political science. Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution … Continued
Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor
By Ben Kiernan (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist … Continued
Many Are the Crimes: Mccarthyism in America
By Ellen Schrecker (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) From an award-winning McCarthy scholar comes the first post-Cold War exploration of the anticommunist witch-hunt and its devastating impact. Tracing the way that a network of dedicated anticommunists created blacklists and destroyed organizations, this broadbased inquiry reveals the connections between McCarthyism’s disparate elements in the belief that understanding its … Continued
Planetarnoe soznanie = Planetary Consciousness
By Mihajlo Mihajlov (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China: State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity
Edited by David Strand (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard This book examines the important theme of reform and reconstruction in twentieth century China, focusing particularly on the Deng era. Chapters are organized around three crucial issues: (i) the extent and limits of state control over economic, social, and cultural life; (ii) prospects for … Continued
The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970
By Jack Goody (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in … Continued
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South
By Nell Irvin Painter (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Painter's oral biography of the Black activist recreates in detail Hudson's life in the Birmingham steel mills, his active participation in the Communist Party, and his presidency of a CIO union local during the 1930s
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
By Miguel La Serna (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Orin Starn On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The … Continued
Witches and Communists: The Crucible and the Cold War
We have long understood The Crucible, ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials, to “actually” be about McCarthyism, but what more can this play tell us about politics and American identity in the early years of the Cold War? To what extent is the fear of communism the occasion for Miller’s portrayal of American paranoia, and … Continued