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Week Eight - Witchhunts against the Enemy Within

 

McCarthyism

Caute, David, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge under Truman and Eisenhower (London, 1978). E.743.5.C2
Fried, Albert (ed.), McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare: A Documentary Reader (New York and Oxford, 1997). E.743.5.M2
Heale, M.J., American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970 (London, 1997). E.743.5.K6
Hoover, J. Edgar, Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It (New York, 1958). JD.242.H6
Kovel, Joel, Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America (London: Cassell, 1997). E.743.5.K6
Powers, Richard, Not without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism (New Haven and London, 1995). E.743.5.P6
Ruotsila, Markku, British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War (London, 2001). E.743.5.R8
Schrecker, Ellen, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton, NJ: PUP, 1998). PM
________ (ed.), McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (Boston and New York, 1994). E.813.S2
Theoharis, Athan G., The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (London, 1989). E.835.5.H6

 

 

Show Trials in the Eastern Bloc

Hodos, George, Show Trials KB.61.53.H6
Kaplan, Karel, Report on the Murder of the General Secretary (London, 1990). KB.61.37.C9
Pelikan, Jiri, The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950-54: The Suppressed Report of the Dubcek Government's Commission of Enquiry (London, 1971). KB.61.37.C9

 

The Hunt for the Third Man

Turnbull, Malcolm, The Spycatcher Case PM
Wright, Peter, Spycatcher (Richmond, Victoria, 1987). UB.271.G7