Historians of immigration and ethnicity in the United States have typically devoted little attention to Greek Americans, while popular narratives depict them as indifferent or hostile to political and social radicalism. From acclaimed historian Kostis Karpozilos,Red America provides an alternative narrative of the Greek American experience. Focusing on the history of the Greek American Left from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Cold War, this volume uncovers the threads that bound notions of radical social change to everyday immigrant life, tracing ethnic radicalism from the boundaries of a specific community to the epicenter of American social and political history.

Kostis Karpozilos is the Director of the Greek Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI) and teaches history at Panteion University. In the past he has worked and taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Oxford Universities. He is currently completing a transnational history of Greek communism.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Radicals of Two Worlds
     Workers of the World
     Workers of the World, Unite!
     Tsars, Slaves, and American Flags
     Radical Diaspora
     Organsis: Socialism as Education
     Phon tou Ergatou: Waiting for the Revolution
     Great Expectations, Lost Illusions

Chapter 2. Americanizing Communism
     Be American!
     Diasporic Communism
     Party Life
     Taxisyneidsia: Greek-American Class Consciousness
     Organizing the Unorganizable
     Fur Workers or Greek Fur Workers?
     Non-Revolutionary Times

Chapter 3. Crisis and Revolution
     The Arthritis Doctrine
     Community Troubles
     Drachmas, Dollars, and Bank Panics
     Hungry Revolutionaries: The Unemployed Councils
     Workers Mutual Aid
     Soviet America
     The New Deal
     The Great Turmoil

Chapter 4. Turmoil and Compromise
     Red, American and Greek Flags
     The Greek-American Popular Front
     Working-Class Stories
     Furs: A Greek-American story
     A Bitter End

Chapter 5. Planning the Future
     America Needs Me, I Need America
     Visions of a New World
     Remnants of the Old World
     Double Ambassadors
     The Unpredictability of History

Chapter 6. Cold War Nation
     The Great Transition
     Liberals in Crisis
     Under Surveillance
     Anticommunist International
     Greek-American Anticommunism
     The Last Page

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index