When the levitts moved to los angeles, they joined the hollywood branch of the communist party. The way helen levitt talks about it, she makes it sound like a glorified social club. It wasn't. They had various branches, and they would get their orders, as it were, from from the county,. usually filtered from new york. How closely was the national party under the control of or in communication with the sylvia union in those years? Complete, complete control. Hey, the party couldn't do anything that the people in moscow would disapprove of. Theyy were rapidly brought into into line. Meanwhile, stallan's policies were not exactly