ABSTRACT
By the middle of 1921 new life was stirring in the battered body of American communism. The two-year old invalid was beginning to show signs of recovery, some generated from the inside, some from the outside. Old names vanished; new names came into prominence. A new driving force was provided by Jay Lovestone, William W. Weinstone, Max Bedacht, Alexander Bittelman, and James P. Cannon. This new team assumed increasing responsibility until the underground was liquidated. Over a hundred years before the American Revolution and about two hundred and fifty years before the Russian Revolution, two Browder brothers set sail from the British Isles, probably from Wales, to the distant shores of Dinwiddie County in the colony of Virginia. Browder set out across the country to round up suitable candidates for the trip to Moscow.
