By Massimo Salvadori

This small work was originally published in the United States for the use of undergraduate students. It was taken from lectures which formed part of the course on Modern European History which I gave in 1949-52 at Smith College in Massachusetts. There was no lack of voluminous works on communism ancient or modern, soviet or other. What did lack was a short introduction to the study of contemporary communism for the use of those who, without pretensions of becoming specialists in political science, want to form an adequately clear idea of a movement which at present affects all of humanity in one way or another.

Holt, 1952, 178 pages

By Paul Lewinson

The writer of this study has many indebtednesses to acknowledge for help in its prosecution. The greatest, it is hoped, is in some small measure discharged in the dedication. The study was begun at the London School of Economics. Intensive work was commenced on the 1865-1900 period at the Robert Brookings Graduate School in Washington (not to be confused with the present Brookings Institution), under the guidance of Professor William E. Dodd. A Social Science Research Council fellowship made possible the field trip and the questionnaire on which the last chapters are based. Many persons have given invaluable help on the form of the manuscript: the Faculty of the Brookings School, several Southerners white and Negro, and especially Jean Atherton Flexner, my “best friend and severest critic.” The scores of Southerners, many of them busy persons, who sacrificed time to discuss the local situation with the writer, would in some cases feel ill repaid were their names to be published here. Contacts with them were in many cases established through the cooperation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League; letters of introduction came also from Dr. Abraham Flexner, and from Mr. Will Alexander of the Interracial Cooperation Commission. The clipping files of Tuskegee Institute, a mine of valuable information in charge of Dr. Monroe Work, were opened to the writer.

Oxford University Press, 1932, 304 pages