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This study, based on an extensive program of interviewing former American, British, French, and Italian Communists, provides many answers to these questions and gives a convincing insight into the motivations, tensions, and loyalties of Party members. First, the book examines Communist literature (the Lenin and Stalin classics and current Party media) to see what the Communists themselves expect of their movement. Then it shows whether this ideal is realized by the people who have \"been through it.\" The final sections, which follow the interviews closely, reveal what actually happens to people when they join, while they are in the Party, and after they leave. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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So many varieties of human experience are encompassed in susceptibility to Communism, so many different kinds of needs, interests, and values enter into decisions to join the party, that it may be useful at the outset to provide a system of classification, a kind of card index, of levels, types, and patterns of susceptibility. Bylevelof susceptibility we mean the degree to which an individual is aware of and positively chooses to join the party in terms of its inner characteristics and requirements. Bytypeof susceptibility we mean the particular need or set of needs and interests which

The findings of this study may perhaps be most appropriately drawn together and summarized around two organizing themes: first, how shall we appraise the ethical significance of the Communist movement? and, second, what kinds of policies and actions are likely to be effective in dealing with it? It is one of the obligations of the scientific calling that, while ethical impulses may affect the selection of a problem and the purposes for which the findings are used, they may not enter into the scientific process—that is, affect the methods of research or the findings themselves. Persons who are unfamiliar

Ideological groupings differ from one another in the ways in which they portray the world of politics. An ideology imputes a particular structure to political action. It defines who or what the main initiators of action are, whether they be individuals, status groups, classes, nations, magical forces, or deities. It attributes specific roles to these actors, describes their relationships with one another, and defines the arena in which actions occur. If we compare the Communist and liberal democratic ideologies from the point of view of these categories of types of actors, roles, modes of interaction, and arena, we will arrive