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ABOUT H-HOAC

To provide a forum for scholars, serious students, and all who want to participate in a scholarly discussion of the history of American communism and domestic anticommunism encompassing the history of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), groups that split from the CPUSA, and competing radical movements. Foreign policy and Cold War diplomacy will not be a subject except when there is some relevance to domestic political history. Similarly, Soviet communism and the Communist International will be a topic only to the extent that there is relevance to the history of the domestic Communist movement. The network will provide a place to report on research in progress, recent publications and openings of archival resources, raise research questions, open scholarly dialogue, and provide information about conferences and symposia. H-HOAC is build on the work of "The Historians of American Communism" an organization founded in 1982 and which has published a quarterly Newsletter continuously since that time.

In 2002 HOAC sponsored the creation of a new twice-yearly scholarly journal, _American Communist History_, edited by Dan Leab of Seton Hall University and published by Carfax

The H-HOAC list is co-edited by Robert Cherny, cherny@sfsu.edu, and John Haynes johnearlhaynes@comcast.net

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