商品簡介
Larry Ceplair (history, Santa Monica College) critically examines the diversity of anti-communism through-out the 20th century and argues that, betrying any univocal program, a variety of agendas wore the mask of anti-communism. He takes a quasi-encyclopedic approach to laying out his categories of anti-communism, but says it is not absolutely exchaustive and only follows major trends. He draws a line between official and unofficial anti-communism in terms of government involvement. The government had the power to spy, subpeona, prosecute and indict targets, while those outside of the government acted through boycotts, black-lists and physical aggression. He spends several chapters on anti-communism across the political spectrum, as it were, looking at conservative, liberal, left-of-liberal and civil libertarian unofficial anti-communism. His approach is still largely chronological and focuses on periods between 1919 and 1957, with final chapters on the long decline of anti-communism in the latter half of the 20th century and the resurgence of its logic in 21st-century anti-terrorism. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Larry Ceplair is professor of history emeritus at Santa Monica College, CA.
