Red Scare or Red Menace? by John Earl Haynes

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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.

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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 *
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ISBN 13 9781566630900
ISBN 10 1566630908
Title Red Scare or Red Menace?
Author John Earl Haynes
Series American Ways
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Ivan R Dee, Inc
Year published 1995-12-01
Number of pages 223
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