Contents -- List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Documents -- Glossary of Individuals and Organizations -- Chronology of American Communism -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Orders from the Comintern -- In the Beginning: The 1920s -- The Consolidation of the American Communist Party -- The Comintern Sets American Party Policy -- Comintern Intervention in American Party Meetings -- Communism in Its Heyday: The 1930s -- The 1936 Presidential Campaign -- The Comintern and the Leadership of the CPUSA -- The CPUSA in the Labor Movement -- The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Its Aftermath -- The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- The "Just War of Defense" -- The Downfall of Earl Browder -- CHAPTER TWO Moscow Gold -- Designated Funds -- Bankrolling Depression-Era Activities -- Fifty Years of Soviet Subsidies -- The Significance of the Moscow Gold -- CHAPTER THREE Communists Abroad -- Comintern "Reps" -- The Plenipotentiaries -- Other Functionaries -- The CPUSA Challenges the Mandate of a Comintern Representative -- The CPUSA and International Comintern Operations -- Americans Stationed in Moscow -- John Reed, Louis Fraina, and Nicholas Hourwich -- Responsibilities of the CPUSA Representative -- American Communists in the "Great Land of Socialism" -- The Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman -- Karelian Fever and the Purge of the North American Finns -- Thomas Sgovio: An American in the Great Terror -- American Emissaries during World War II -- Morris Childs and the 1948 Presidential Election -- CHAPTER FOUR Imported Hatred -- Early Training in Ideological Conformity -- The Soviet Union and the Splintering of the American Left -- The Comintern Proclaims "Social Fascism" to Be the New Enemy -- The Madison Square Garden Riot -- The Moscow Trials and the Great Terror -- Earl Browder Declares War on Trotskyists.

The Trotsky-Zinoviev Trial of 1936 -- The Lovestoneite Deviation -- Pressure for Even Greater Press Fervor -- Comintern Education in Ideological Sensitivity -- Tools of Discipline -- Expulsion -- Dealing with Deviationists: Scott Nearing and Edgar Snow -- CHAPTER FIVE Fellowcountrymen -- Appendix American and Soviet Cominternists -- Comintern Representatives Serving in the United States -- American Communist Party Representatives to the Communist International Who Were Stationed in Moscow -- American Communists Serving in the Comintern in Minor Positions or Sent on Comintern Missions to Other Countries -- Americans Holding Positions in the Communist International's Highest Bodies -- "American" Signers of the "Call for the Formation of the Communist International" -- Selected Readings -- Index.