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Vollständiger Titel | Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era (American Ways Series) |
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Aktueller Besitzer | SaberRider (derzeit inaktiv) |
Aktuelle Kosten | 4 Punkte |
Genre | Sachbuch |
Buchformat: | Taschenbuch |
Buchnummer | 61732 |
Autor | John E. Haynes |
ISBN-Nr. | 9781566630917 |
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.1995 |
Verlag | Ivan R. Dee |
Beschreibung | ========================================== Zu grundlegenden Tauschbedingungen siehe den Abschnitt "Beschreibung der eigenen Situation" auf meiner Profilseite. Die dortigen Bedingungen dienen der Transparenz. Bitte nehmen Sie diese unbedingt zur Kenntnis, um Missverständnisse zu vermeiden! Beim Angebot zum Tausch gelten diese als gelesen und verbindlich. ========================================== Anticommunism was a pervasive force in America during the cold war years, influencing domestic politics, the conduct of foreign policy, the nuclear arms race, and a myriad of social and economic circumstances. In this succinct survey, John E. Haynes traces the origins of American attitudes toward communism in the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of a full-blown cause in the years following World War II, and the relative decline of anticommunism as a political issue in the sixties and seventies. As one of a handful of American scholars allowed to review documents in newly opened archives once held by the Soviet Union, Mr. Haynes uses fresh evidence throughout in shedding new light on the U.S. confrontation with communism at home. After describing the buildup of the American Communist party in the twenties and thirties, he focuses on the heyday of popular anticommunism from 1945 to 1960. Along the way he touches on the chief episodes, personalities, and institutions of cold war anticommunism, showing how earlier campaigns against domestic fascists and right-wingers provided most all of anticommunism's tactics and weapons. And he dissects the various anti-Communist constituencies, analyzing their origins, motives, and activities. From the Soviet archives, Mr. Haynes draws on new and indisputable evidence that the Soviet Union heavily subsidized the American Communist party from its earliest days; maintained an underground organization in Washington in the 1930s that reported to American party leaders and in turn to Moscow on U.S. government activities; and placed American party members in the wartime Office of Strategic Services and Office of War Information, the government's chief intelligenceand propaganda agencies. He also confirms much of Elizabeth Bentley's 1940s accusations of Communist infiltration in government. Mr. Haynes has written not only a compact history of American communism but a reappraisal of American Communist activities that overturns a great deal of cold war interpretation. Historians cannot ignore it. ========================================== Das Buch wendet sich in erster Linie an Fachleute, Studenten der Politologie und Geschichte. Interessierte Laien können das Buch ebenso lesen, wenn sie Englisch auf hohem Niveau beherrschen. ========================================== + Tierfreier Nichtraucherhaushalt |
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