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2009
| Arguments about whether distinctive features of Americansociety, culture, political structure, economic system,or population account for the relative weakness of Americanradicalism have engaged historians, sociologists, andpolitical scientists for decades. Influential concepts suchas "frontier theory" have been linked with the absence ofclass conflict in America. Other analysts have attributedthe failure of the American Left to fierce repression,giving red scares and the McCarthy era as illustra....[more] |
2006
| Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that American Communists had co-operated with Soviet espionage against the United States and had assisted in stealing the technical secrets of the atomic bomb as well as penetrating ....[more] |
2003
| Beginning in the late 1960s, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr say, the study of communism in America was taken over by 'revisionists' who have attempted to portray the US as the aggressor in the Cold War and saw suspicion about the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as baseless 'paranoia'. In this intriguing book, they show how, years after the death of communism, the leading historical journals and many prominent historians continue to teach that America's rejection of the Party was a tragic err....[more] |
1996
| The Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only two, the editor of Amerasia and a minor government employee, were convicted of any offense, and their convictions were merely for unauthorized possession of government documents. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh provide a full-scale history of the first public drama....[more] |
1973
| Histories of American radical left groups abound. The Communist party, the tiny Trotskyist movement, and the New Left have all been abundantly chronicled. Very little information has been available, however, about the Radical Left today. Far Left of Center remedies that deficit. Part One deals with the Communist party of the United States, the largest and most influential Marxist-Leninist group in the United States. Part Two deals with Trotskyist, Maoist, the other Marxist-Leninist organizations....[more] |
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