FORMAT CANCELLED Menace of Our Time

The Long War Against American Communism

Aaron J. Leonard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4181-9 (ISBN)

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Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism’s collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domestic communism. This book tracks those efforts; from the state laws of the twenties that imprisoned the fledgling communist leadership, the efforts by police and local authorities against communists as they fought for unions, racial equality, and the unemployed, the trials and imprisonment of communist leaders mid-century, the extra-legal efforts of the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the sixties, and the ongoing, relentless attention by the FBI afterward. This is a long-overdue book about the most extensive, repressive effort ever undertaken by US authorities against a political organization that, however problematic, was largely operating within the scope of constitutionally mandated freedoms.

AARON J. LEONARD is an author and historian. Among his books are Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, The Folk Singers & the Bureau, and Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2024).

Contents

Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. Opening Salvos (1901-1920)
2. Underground and Above (1921-1927)
3. The Third Period (1928-1933)
4. Marginalized in the Mainstream (1934-1939)
5. To War (1939-1945)
6. Clampdown (1946-1947)
7. Decapitation & Violence (1948-1949)
8. Prison and Pursuit (1950-1953)
9. Disruption (1954-1963)
10. Hounded (1964-1970)
11. Final Conflicts (1971-1991)
Conclusion
Appendix I: CPUSA Leaders Imprisoned
Appendix II: FBI Files Referenced
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.2025
Zusatzinfo	11 B-W, 2 table images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4181-7 / 1978841817
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4181-9 / 9781978841819
Zustand	Neuware