Let Them Tremble is a collection of six biographies exploring unique and often neglected aspects of the Communist Party, USA and its 100-year history. Each intervention explores a specific CPUSA leader’s life, work and times – and places them within political and historical context. The interventions collectively span the bulk of the Party’s history, not just the so-called ‘Hey Day’, Popular Front, McCarthy or Old Left periods.
Special emphasis is placed on CPUSA activity and analysis post-1956. Let Them Tremble adds to our understanding of the 20th Century domestic communist movement and fills the gap in the historiography of US radicalism through biographical narratives.
People Before Profits Education Fund/Chelsea Fund for Education 