Little 'Red Scares'

Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921-1946
Herausgeber: Goldstein, Robert Justin

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Produktbeschreibung

Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. By focusing on the interim period between the two major 'red scares', this volume makes clear that the lingering effects of 1919-20 and the gathering storm-clouds of 'McCarthyism' were clearly visible throughout the 20s and 30s. In so doing the rationale and motivations for the 'red scares' are contextualised as part of an evolving political narrative, rather than as isolated bouts of hysteria exploding onto - and then vanishing from - the political landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781409410911
• ISBN-10: 1409410919
• Artikelnr.: 41251561

Autorenporträt

Robert Justin Goldstein is professor emeritus of political science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA, and currently research associate at the Center for Russian, E. European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface: Little' Red scares': anti-Communism and political
repression in the United States, 1921-1946, Robert Justin Goldstein; After
the Red scare: civil liberties in the era of Harding and Coolidge, Ernest
Freeberg; The FBI and the politics of anti-Communism, 1920-1945: a prelude
to power, Athan Theoharis; Citizens versus outsiders: anti-Communism at
state and local levels, 1921-1946, M.J. Heale; Red herrings? The Fish
Committee and anti-Communism in the early Depression years, Alex Goodall;
Little Red schoolhouses? Anti-Communists and education in an 'age of
conflicts', Timothy Cain; Fighting the 'Red danger': employers and
anti-Communism, Chad Pearson; Leftward ramparts: labor and anticommunism
between the World Wars, Markku Ruotsila; Premature McCarthyism: Spanish
Republican aid and the origins of Cold War anti-Communism, Eric Smith;
Laying the foundations for the post-World War II Red scare: investigating
the left-feminist consumer movement, Landon R.Y. Storrs; The Dies Committee
v. the New deal: real Americans and the unending search for un-Americans,
Kenneth O' Reilly; The long Black and Red scare: anti-Communism and the
African American freedom struggle, Robbie Lieberman; Shooting rabid dogs:
New York's Rapp-Coudert attack on teachers unions, Stephen Leberstein; The
history of the Smith Act and the Hatch Act: anti-Communism and the rise of
the conservative coalition in Congress, Rebecca Hill; Index.