Acknowledgments

    The author wishes to thank all those who helped in the preparation of this history of the Communist Party.  Their cooperation covered a wide range of work--extensive research in many fields, the writing of various studies, and the reading and correcting of the manuscript and proofs.  Of especially great value were the large number of penetrating criticisms and constructive proposals made by these co-workers, without which this history could not have been written.

William Z. Foster

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