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Red Scare Politics: California's Campaign Against Un-American Activities, 1940–1970

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

M. J. Heale
M. J. Heale
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Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YG and Associate Editor-elect of the Journal of American Studies.
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The explanations for the red scare of the Cold War years have often been concerned with the direction taken by anti-Communist pressures. These have sometimes been represented as welling up from below, perhaps in the form of grassroots anxieties and resentments directed at well-to-do liberals and intellectuals, or as Catholic and immigrant enmity towards the Soviet Union. Such populistic currents may be portrayed as disturbing the normal routines of American politics. More often in recent years anti-Communist sentiments have been presented as elite-inspired influences working their way down in the polity, such as the anti-Soviet rhetoric and policies of the Truman administration, or the partisan opportunism of Republican politicians. The American political process itself may then be held to account. There have been a few attempts to test these interpretations by studies at state level, although it is not self-evident that such studies will favour either of these explanations. Indeed, the more detailed the study the more it is likely to acknowledge the complexity of American anti-communism. The evidence of California suggests that the second great red scare arose out of the convergence of pressures both from above and from below, in a process involving at least three different political dimensions.

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Journal of American Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , April 1986 , pp. 5 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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