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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 ...

This book, first published in 2006, is a review of the major spy cases of the early Cold War.

A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom. Haynes argues convincingly that after the Second World War the American Communist Party was indeed a serious danger to the American body politic....He has begun the necessary reexamination of a squalid era. Ronald Radosh, Times Literary Su...

Dubious Alliance was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The formation of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota took place in a context of intense factional struggle that lasted from the death of Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1936 to the election of Hubert Humph...

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 technic...

Examined here first are the thousands of documents of the super-secret Venona Project--an American intelligence project, made public in 1995, that uncovered an enormous range of Soviet espionage activities against the U.S. during World War II. 18 illustrations.

Along with general insights into espionage tactics and the motives of Americans who spied for Stalin, this book resolves specific, long-seething controversies. It confirms, among many other things, that Alger Hiss cooperated with Soviet intelligence over a period of years, and that Robert Oppenheimer was never recruited by Soviet intelligence.