During the years 1947-1952 the Cold War, the anti- communist
foreign policy of the U.S. government, and the reassertion by the
American Communist party of its allegiance to the Soviet Union, the
international communist movement, and a literal Marxist-Leninist
ideology gradually gave rise to an anti-communist hysteria and to
the repression and persecution of American Communists. Author Peter
L. Steinberg shows that both the Truman Administration and the
Communist Party were in part responsible for the McCarthy era that
followed. Both were reacting to the ideologiical warfare conducted
by J. Edgar Hoover. Using his allies in government, Hoover took
advantage of the Cold War atmosphere to demand demonstrable action
against communists. The Truman Administration responded with a
loyalty program that seemed to legitimze the American people's
worst fears, leading to demands for further action. The Communist
Party's decision to "go underground" played into the hands of its
enemies. Steinberg sees the attack on American communists as a
necessary prelude to the demand for patriotic conformity and as a
factor contributing to the development of an internal political
police.
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