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History in Dispute, Vol. 19: The Red Scare After 1945 from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Red Scare After 1945 provides scholarly essays that debate the nature of American Communism, the reasons the Red Scare emerged, the role of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, the significance of Joseph R. McCarthy, the effects of the Red Scare on civil liberties, labor, minorities, and culture. It examines the well-known cases, the legal issues, the legacies, and the lessons of the Red Scare.
Topics covered include
- An actual communist threat
- African American politics
- The Amerasia case
- Anti-communism and the civil rights movement
- Art and politics
- Artistic expression
- Civil liberties
- Committee on Un-American Activities
- CPUSA and racial equality
- The CPUSA in American life
- Democrats and Republicans
- Destruction of the American Left
- Education
- Emergence of McCarthyism
- End of the Red Scare
- Federal loyalty program
- Foreign-policy consequences
- High Court decisions
- The Alger Hiss case
- The Hollywood blacklist
- Hollywood Ten
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Ideological roots
- Impact of the CPUSA
- Informers
- Local and state activity
- McCarran Act
- Nixon's impact
- Overthrow of the government
- Peace advocates
- Popular fears
- Prosecution of Communist Party leaders
- Red Scare as a model
- Red Scare legacy
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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September 13, 2010
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