When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941

! When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and Americas First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 ë PDF Download by ^ Robert Cohen eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and Americas First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 Never before, and not again until the 1960s, were so many undergraduates mobilized for political protest in the United States. At its peak, in the late 1930s, the movement mobilized at least a half million collegians in annual strikes against war. The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than tha

Author	:	Robert Cohen
Rating	:	4.70 (639 Votes)
Asin	:	0195111362
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	456 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-08-01
Language	:	English

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Robert Cohen is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences Education at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Never before, and not again until the 1960s, were so many undergraduates mobilized for political protest in the United States. At its peak, in the late 1930s, the movement mobilized at least a half million collegians in annual strikes against war. The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement lost nearly all its momentum in 1939, when the signing of the Hitler-Stalin pact served to discredit the student Communist leaders. Adding to the emerging portrait of political life in the 1930s, this book is the result of an extraordinary amount of research, has fascinating individual stories to tell, and offers the first comprehensive history of this student insurgency.. The movement arose from a massive political awakening on campus, caused by the economic crisis of the 1930s, the

It is the first and only comprehensive study of the radical movement among college students in the 1930's.Bound to provoke considerable discussion, perhaps even spirited criticismbut the inevitable debate will only enhance its significance and serve to focus the attention of the scholarly community on one of the most important works to come along in many years."--American Historical Review"A major strength of this work lies in its depth of research in a variety of sources.When the Old Left Was Young is a valuable remin