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100	1		_aFischer, Nick.
245	1	0	_aSpider web : _bthe birth of American anticommunism / _cNick Fischer.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c[2016]
300			_axviii, 345 p. : _billustrations : _c24 cm
520	2		_a"The McCarthy-era witch hunts marked the culmination of an anticommunist crusade launched after the First World War. With Bolshevism triumphant in Russia and public discontent shaking the United States, conservatives at every level of government and business created a network dedicated to sweeping away the 'spider web' of radicalism they saw threatening the nation. In this groundbreaking study, Nick Fischer shines a light on right-wing activities during the interwar period. Conservatives, eager to dispel communism's appeal to the working class, railed against a supposed Soviet-directed conspiracy composed of socialists, trade unions, peace and civil liberties groups, feminists, liberals, aliens, and Jews. Their rhetoric and power made for devastating weapons in their systematic war for control of the country against progressive causes. But, as Fischer shows, the term spider web far more accurately described the anticommunist movement than it did the makeup and operations of international communism. Fischer details how anticommunist myths and propaganda influenced mainstream politics in America, and how its ongoing efforts paved the way for the McCarthyite Fifties--and augured the conservative backlash that would one day transform American politics"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index.
505	0		_aChapter 1. The Origins of American Anticommunism, ca. 1860-1917 -- Chapter 2. The First World War and the Origins of the Red Scare -- Chapter 3. Here Come the Bolsheviks! : The Russian Revolution and the Red Scare -- Chapter 4. The Spider Web Chart -- Chapter 5. Mapping a Political Network : The Anticommunist Spider Web -- Chapter 6. John Bond Trevor, Radicals, Eugenics, and Immigration -- Chapter 7. Jacob Spolansky : The Rise of the Career Anticommunist Spook -- Chapter 8. The Better America Federation and Big Business's War on Labor -- Chapter 9. Political Repression and Culture War -- Chapter 10. Anticommunism and Political Terror -- Chapter 11. The Mythology of Anticommunism -- Chapter 12. Antidemocracy and Authoritarianism -- Conclusion: Legacies of the Spider Web -- Afterword.
650		0	_aAnti-communist movements _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aConservatism _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aMyth _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPropaganda _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1919-1933.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. _2bisacsh
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