7 INTRODUCTION
  Chapter I
  THE MAIN TRENDS OF CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE USA BETWEEN 1918 AND 1923
11 1. The Aftermath of World War I in the USA. The Foreign Policy of the Wilson Administration During 1918-1920
18 2. The Internal Situation and the Basic Factors of Intensified Class Struggle
22 3. The Upsurge in the Labor and Democratic Movement (1918-1920)
33 4. The Strengthening of the Left Wing of the Socialist Movement and the Formation of the Communist Party of America (CPA)
38 5. The Republican Victory. The Domestic and Foreign Policies of the Harding Administration
50 6. The Labor and Democratic Movement in the Early 1920s
  Chapter II
  THE USA BETWEEN 1924 AND 1929: THE PARTIAL STABILIZATION OF CAPITALISM
66 1. Distinctive Features of the Economic Development of the USA During the Period of Stabilization
71 2. The Class Struggle in the Period of Stabilization
82 3. US Foreign Policy Between 1924 and 1929
  Chapter III
  THE USA DURING THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS (1929-1933)
87 1. The Economic Crisis and the Situation of the Working People
91 2. The Domestic and Foreign Policies of the Hoover Administration
96 3. The Mass Workers’ Movement in the Period of Economic Crisis (1929-1933)
  Chapter IV
  THE USA DURING ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL (1933-1939)
105 1. The New Deal and Its Class Nature
114 2. The Labor and Democratic Movement in the Mid-1980s
125 3. Changes in the Political Climate and the Leftward Shift in the New Deal
138 4. The Economic Crisis of 1937-1938 and Its Impact on New Deal Policies
146 5. US Foreign Policy. 1933-1939
  Chapter V
  THE USA DURING WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)
154 1. On the Road to Pearl Harbor
161 2. US War Aims and Effort
168 3. The War Economy
176 4. The Political Party Struggle
181 5. The Labor Movement
187 6. American Plans for the Postwar Organization of the World
  Chapter VI
  THE FORMATION OF POSTWAR FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY (1945-1948)
196 1. Problems of Reconversion
205 2. The Onslaught of Domestic Reaction
210 3. Imperialist Foreign Policy Doctrines. The Unleashing of the Cold War
220 4. The Trade Unions and the Communist Party in the Immediate Postwar Years
228 5. The Election of 1948
  Chapter VII
  THE REACTIONARY RAMPAGE AND AGGRAVATION OF THE COLD WAR (1949-1954)
233 1. The Economc Crisis of 1948-1949 and Debacle of Truman’s Fair Deal. Unleashing an Anti-communist Hysteria
239 2. Truman’s Point Four Program. NATO. Intervention in Korea.
246 3. Republican Measures Intensifying the Cold War
252 4. McCarthyism
260 5. The Democratic Forces’ Fight Against Reaction and Militarism
  Chapter VIII
  THE PERIOD OF CONSERVATIVE “CONSENSUS” (1955-1960)
267 1. Socio-economic Developments
274 2. The Dominant Conservatism in the Bourgeois Parties’ Ideology and Policies
284 3. Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Dulles
290 4. The Labor and Democratic Movement
302 5. The Democratic Victory in the 1960 Election
  Chapter IX
  THE STORMY SIXTIES
306 1. The Impact of the Scientific and Technological Revolution on the Development of American Capitalism
317 2. Socio-economic Policies of the Democrats
327 3. Foreign Policy Under Kennedy and Johnson
336 4. The Growing Danger from the Right
343 5. The Upsurge in the Labor and Democratic Movement
355 6. The New Stage in the Civil Rights Movement
361 7. The Democratic Defeat in the 1968 Election
  Chapter X
  THE REPUBLICANS IN POWER (1969-1974)
364 1. The State of the Economy. The Socio-economic Policies of the Nixon Administration
377 2. The Party Struggle. The Political Crisis of 1973 and 1974
388 3. The Present-time Labor and Democratic Movement
401 4. Republican Foreign Policy. Soviet-American Relations
416 5. The United States Under the Administration of Gerald Ford
  Chapter XI
441 SOVIET STUDIES OF THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE USA
454 CONCLUSION
  APPENDICES
456 Appendix No. 1 • The States of the Union
458 Appendix No. 2 • State Structure of the USA (according to the US Constitution, adopted in 1787, with 26 amendments)
459 Appendix No. 3 • Presidential Election (1920-1972)
461 Appendix No. 4 • Party Control in Congress
462 Appendix No. 5 • Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of State
463 Appendix No. 6 • Justices of the United States Supreme Court
464 Appendix No. 7 • Strike Movement (Official Statistics)
466 Appendix No. 8 • Landmarks in Recent US History
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
477 Classics of Marxism-Leninism
477 Documents of the International Communist Movement
478 Works by Soviet Authors
484 Works by American Authors
488 INDEX
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