Introduction: From the National to the Transnational
Marc Becker, Margaret M. Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob Zumoff
Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-43)
1. The Comintern, the Mexican Communist Party, and the “Sandino Case”: The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-30
Lazar Jeifets and Victor Jeifets
2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s
Jacob A. Zumoff
3. The “Negro Question” in Cuba, 1928-36
Frances Peace Sullivan
4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-36
Tony Wood
5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-35
Jacob Blanc
Part II: Latin American Communism in the Cold War Frame (1945-89)
6. Latin America and the Communist World in the Early 1950s: The Networks of Soviet Pacifism and Latin American Anti-Imperialism
Adriana Petra
7. Breaking the Silence: Communist Women, Transnationalism, and the Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca, 1947-54
Patricia Harms
8. A Political and Transnational Ménage a Trois: The Communist Party USA, the Puerto Rican Communist Party, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1934-45
Margaret M. Power
9. Transnational Youth and Student Groups in the 1950s
Marc Becker
10. Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the “People’s War” Strategy
Kevin A. Young
Afterword: Remapping the Past
Tanya Harmer
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
