Congress and countersubversion in the 20th century : aspects and legacies /

The core of this book consists of essays originally posted on the blog of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection, belonging to Academic Library Services, East Carolina University. The end result is a collection of 24 self-contained chapters, organized into five chronological/topical se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durant, David M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Greenville, North Carolina] : East Carolina University Academic Library Services, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • From Brewing to Brown Scare: 1917-1945. Beer, Subversion, and Bolsheviks: World War 1 and the First Investigative Committee ; The Left Embraces Countersubversion: The 1930s Brown Scare and the Growth of Countersubversion ; "Father of the Committee:" Rep. Samuel Dickstein and the Origins of HUAC ; "A Grave Injustice:" The Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942-45
  • McCarthyism and Red Scare: 1946-1959. Source for the Blacklist: The Origins of Appendix IX ; HUAC Goes to Hollywood, Aspects of the Blacklist ; Jackie Robinson Testifies Before HUAC, 1949 ; New Evidence in the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; "Have you left no sense of decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings, 1954 ; Pete Seeger and HUAC, 1955 ; Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC, 1956 ; "A Travesty Upon the Word 'Investigation:'" Mary Knowles and the Plymouth Meeting Controversy
  • The Decline of Countersubversion, 1960-77. The First NSA Defection: 1960 ; Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers
  • Espionage, Disinformation and Political Warfare in the Cold War. Active Measures ; The "Neighbors": The GRU in America, from "Ales" to "Fancy Bear" ; "False Alarm:" Communist Allegations of Biological Warfare in the Korean War ; "The Crime and the Lie:" The Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940 ; Congress Investigates the Katyn Forest Massacre, 1951-1952 ; Previewing the Film Katyn
  • Echoes and Legacies: Countersubversion and Disinformation from the Late Cold War to Present. Congress Investigates Right-Wing Extremism, From the 1960s to Present ; 1983: The Bombing of the U.S. Capitol ; Russian Interference in the 2016 Election ; Foreign Election Interference in 2020.