The red decade : the Stalinist penetration of America / Eugene Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Eugene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--United States.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Red Decade

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1941.

Summary:

This book examines communism in the United States during the 1930s.

Contents:

Introduction : in defense of Red-baiting

The five ages of the Communist International

A party is born

Boring from within

The Moscow solar system

The American party is purged

The milquetoast takes command

The Red decade dawns

Fascism has the right of way

The cult of Russia-worship

The liberals invent a utopia

Apologists do their stuff

The Red cultural renaissance

More planets are launched

Moscow adopts the Trojan horse

Communism becomes Americanism

The incredible Revolution spreads

American league for Soviet war mongering

Stalin's children's hour in the U.S.A

Stalin muscles in on American labor

Russian purges and American liberals

Hooray for murder!

"Friends of the G.P.U."

Cocktails for Spanish democracy

Revolution comes to Hollywood and Broadway

America's own popular front government

The typewriter front

Intellectual Red terror

The last loony scene

The melancholy retreat of the liberals

New fronts for old

And they called it "peace"

The menace today.

Notes:

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