Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? : gender, spycraft, and anti-Stalinism in the early Cold War

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Label

Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? : gender, spycraft, and anti-Stalinism in the early Cold War

Title remainder

gender, spycraft, and anti-Stalinism in the early Cold War

Statement of responsibility

Denise M. Lynn

Creator

• Lynn, Denise M

Author

• Lynn, Denise M

Subject

• Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Communist Party of the United States of America
• Communist Party of the United States of America -- Biography
• Espionage, Soviet
• Espionage, Soviet -- United States
• Intellectuals -- Political activity
• Intellectuals -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Missing persons
• Missing persons -- New York (State) | New York City -- Biography
• New York (State) -- New York
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
• Poyntz, Juliet Stuart, 1886-1937
• Soviet Union
• Spies
• Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• United States
• Women college teachers
• Women college teachers -- New York (State) | New York City -- Biography
• Women communists
• Women communists -- United States -- Biography
• Women spies
• Women spies -- United States -- Biography
• 1900-1999
• Communism

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"On a sweltering June evening in 1937, American Juliet Stuart Poyntz left her boardinghouse in Manhattan and walked toward Central Park, three short blocks away. She was never seen or heard from again. Seven months passed before a formal missing person's report was made, since Poyntz worked for the Soviet Secret Police and her friends (many of whom were anti-Stalinist radicals in the United States) were scared to alert authorities. Her disappearance coincided with Josef Stalin's purges of his political enemies in the Soviet Union and it was feared that Poyntz was a casualty of Soviet brutality. In Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?, Denise M. Lynn argues that Poyntz's sudden disappearance was the final straw for many on the American political left, who then abandoned Marxism and began to embrace anti-communism. In the years to follow, the left crafted narratives of her disappearance that became central to the Cold War. While scholars have thoroughly analyzed the influence of the political right in the anti-communism of this era, this captivating and compelling study is unique in exploring the influence of the political left"--

Member of

• Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 327.1247073092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HX84.P73

LC item number

L96 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond