Red Scare or Red Menace? by John Earl Haynes
A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom. Haynes argues convincingly that after the Second World War the American Communist Party was indeed a serious danger to the American body politic....He has begun the necessary reexamination of a squalid era. -Ronald Radosh, Times Literary Supplement. American Ways Series.
A solid academic analysis of the American communist movement that draws on recently declassified Soviet documents* Kirkus *
An antidote to the melioristic revisionism about the Communist Party, so prevalent in mainstream circles of American historiography. -- Arnold Beichman * The Washington Times *
An antidote to the melioristic revisionism about the Communist Party, so prevalent in mainstream circles of American historiography. -- Arnold Beichman * The Washington Times *
John E. Haynes, an American historian now at the Library of Congress, has also written Dubious Alliance and has co-edited The Secret World of American Communism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781566630917 |
| ISBN 10 | 1566630916 |
| Title | Red Scare or Red Menace? |
| Author | John Earl Haynes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ivan R Dee, Inc |
| Year published | 1995-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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