Red Scare or Red Menace?

A solid academic analysis of the American communist movement that draws on recently declassified Soviet documents.

• Part 1 Preface viiPart 2 COMMUNISM AND ANTICOMMUNISM 3Chapter 3 The Soviet experience. Origins of American communism. Red Scare. Heyday of the movement.Part 4 FASCISM AND WORLD WAR II 17Chapter 5 Threat of fascism and fifth columns. Antifascist response in the United States. Roosevelt's foreign policy. The Nazi-Soviet pact.Part 6 THE ROAD TO THE COLD WAR 37Chapter 7 Disillusion of the peace. Wartime promises—the case of Poland and domestic repercussions. Communist espionage: Amerasia, Gouzenko, the Rosenbergs.Part 8 THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES 64Chapter 9 Early focus on fascism. Dies Committee. Postwar Hollywood hearings. Bentley revelations. Chambers and Hiss.Part 10 VARIETIES OF ANTICOMMUNISM 89Chapter 11 Evangelical Christians. Catholics and ACTU. The Socialist attack. Trotskyism. Lovestone and labor.Part 12 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM 113Chapter 13 Popular Front liberals. Niebuhr and Americans for Democratic Action. State politics. Murray and CIO drive against Communists.Part 14 PARTISANSHIP AND ANTICOMMUNISM 137Chapter 15 Party politics in the anti-Communist era. Rise and fall of McCarthy.Part 16 ANTICOMMUNISM AT HIGH TIDE 163Chapter 17 Federal offensive against American Communists. Personnel security programs. FBI activites. The literature of exposure. The uses of anticommunism.Part 18 THE END OF THE ANTI-COMMUNIST ERA 190Chapter 19 Death of Stalin. Decline of the CPUSA. Influence of the Vietnam War.Part 20 Selected Readings 201Part 21 Index 205