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In Denial - Historians, Communism, and Espionage (Paperback)
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In Denial - Historians, Communism, and Espionage (Paperback)
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Beginning in the late 1960s, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr say,
the study of communism in America was taken over by "revisionists"
who have attempted to portray the U.S. as the aggressor in the Cold
War and saw suspicion about the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as
baseless "paranoia." In this intriguing book, they show how, years
after the death of communism, the leading historical journals and
many prominent historians continue to teach that America's
rejection of the Party was a tragic error, that American Communists
were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that
those anti-Communist liberals and conservatives who drove the CPUSA
to the margins of American politics in the 1950s were malicious
figures deserving condemnation. The focus of "In Denial" is what
the authors call "lying about spying." Haynes and Klehr examine the
ways in which revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted new
evidence from recently-opened Russian archives about espionage
links between Moscow and the CPUSA. They analyze the mythology that
continues to suggest, against all evidence, that Alger Hiss, Julius
Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and others who
betrayed the United States were more sinned against than sinning.
They set the record straight about the spies among us. Haynes and
Klehr were the first U.S. historians who used the newly opened
archives of the former Soviet Union to examine the history of
American communism. "In Denial" is the record of what they
discovered there. They show that while the international communist
movement may be dead, conflict over the meaning of the communist
experience in America is still very much with us.
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