Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise
- ISBN-10
- 0813543061
- ISBN-13
- 9780813543062
- Category
- African American intellectuals
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Joy Gleason Carew
Description
One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. In Blacks, Reds, and Russians, Joy Gleason Carew offers insight into the political strategies that often underlie relationships between different peoples and countries. Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist United States, found unprecedented opportunities in communist Russia.
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- 2010
- 273 pages
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