McCarthyism and the Red Scare Revisited
The Cold War
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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a return look to the topic of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare, examining the methods used to create fear and a culture of self-censorship. We examine the case of Owen Latimore and how even the end of Senator McCarthy did not mean a reprieve from the effects of the hunt he had started. We also darw some parallels from the past to the present.
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*SOURCES*
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America | Ellen Schrecker |
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy | David M. Oshinsky |
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities | Ellen W. Schrecker |
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents | Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery |
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later | Larry Ceplair |
Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars | Jennifer Luff
Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism | Nick Fischer |
Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York | Phillip Deery |
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left | Landon R. Y. Storrs |
Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow: Film and Soviet-American Relations during World War II | Todd Bennett |
The Making of Song of Russia | Robert Mayhew |
Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry | Office of War Information |
Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry | U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities |
Mission to Moscow | American Film Institute Catalog |
The North Star | American Film Institute Catalog |
Song of Russia | American Film Institute Catalog |
Howard Koch | Bard College Archives & Special Collections |
Executive Order 9835 | Harry S. Truman |
Congressional Record: Taft-Hartley Act, Section 9(h) | U.S. Congress |
Records of the House Committee on Un-American Activities | National Archives |
Communists in Government Service, McCarthy Says | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
Declaration of Conscience | Margaret Chase Smith |
Veto of the Internal Security Bill | Harry S. Truman |
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 | U.S. Supreme Court
Executive Order 10450 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
These People Are Frightened to Death | Judith Adkins |
LGBTQIA+ Federal Employment in the Records at the National Archives | National Archives |
Have You No Sense of Decency? | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
The Censure Case of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
Trump Revives Old Tropes as He Pushes Warnings of ‘Communist Menace’ | Robert Tait |
The Smithsonian Hearing That Wanted an Uncomplicated America | ProfessorMeredith |
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Have we always lived up to these principles? He'll no. Have we made progress to governing ourselves more fairly? Yes.
Vasili Mitrokhin was a senior KGB archivist who, between 1972 and 1984, secretly copied and took extensive notes from classified KGB files while helping relocate the foreign intelligence archives to a new headquarters. He smuggled the material out piece by piece and hid it beneath his dacha.
The archive contains an extraordinary amount of information on Soviet spies, agents, informants, and covert operations around the world, including technological espionage, assassination and sabotage plots, blackmail, and political influence campaigns. The FBI later described the material as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source."
Mitrokhin defected to Britain in 1992, and British intelligence subsequently exfiltrated him, his family, and the archive from Russia.
Much of the material was later published with historian Christopher Andrew in The Sword and the Shield, which focuses largely on KGB operations in the West, and The World Was Going Our Way, which covers Soviet intelligence and influence operations throughout the Third World.
If you haven't looked into it already, it's a really interesting source on Cold War activities
McCarthyism and the Red Scare Revisited
The Cold War
13,869 views
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a return look to the topic of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare, examining the methods used to create fear and a culture of self-censorship. We examine the case of Owen Latimore and how even the end of Senator McCarthy did not mean a reprieve from the effects of the hunt he had started. We also darw some parallels from the past to the present.
Fischer vs Spassky: Cold War Chess: Bobby Fischer
Soviet Domination of Chess: How the Soviet Union Dominated Chess
CF-105 Arrow & The Bomber Gap: Closing the Bomber Gap: Canada's CF-105 Arrow
A History of Maoism: A History of Maoism
China's Cultural Revolution: China's Cultural Revolution
Commercial Air Travel: Flying Cold War - The Rise of Commercial A...
Reykjavik Summit 1986: How the US and the USSR almost Abolished T...
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Saturday Morning Soldiers: How the Cold Wa...
The Profumo Affair: The Profumo Affair: The British Political ...
Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: The Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: Stories tha...
America's Bioweapons pt 2: What happened to America's Bioweapons Prog...
America's Bioweapons pt 1: America's Cold War Biological Weapons Program
The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: Sidney Gottlieb
The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev's Years of St...
The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: The Soviet Economy from Revolution to Khru...
How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People
How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: How Khrushchev Housed Everyone - Cold War ...
Communist Girl Scouts of America: How the Girl Scouts of America were Accuse...
Support us on Patreon: Patreon: TheColdWar,
Youtube membership @thecoldwartv
✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar
✔ Patreon ► Patreon: thecoldwar
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✔ Instagram ►Instagram: thecoldwartv
#ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #McCarthyism #McCarthy #HUAC #communism #RedScare
*SOURCES*
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America | Ellen Schrecker |
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy | David M. Oshinsky |
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities | Ellen W. Schrecker |
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents | Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery |
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later | Larry Ceplair |
Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars | Jennifer Luff
Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism | Nick Fischer |
Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York | Phillip Deery |
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left | Landon R. Y. Storrs |
Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow: Film and Soviet-American Relations during World War II | Todd Bennett |
The Making of Song of Russia | Robert Mayhew |
Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry | Office of War Information |
Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry | U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities |
Mission to Moscow | American Film Institute Catalog |
The North Star | American Film Institute Catalog |
Song of Russia | American Film Institute Catalog |
Howard Koch | Bard College Archives & Special Collections |
Executive Order 9835 | Harry S. Truman |
Congressional Record: Taft-Hartley Act, Section 9(h) | U.S. Congress |
Records of the House Committee on Un-American Activities | National Archives |
Communists in Government Service, McCarthy Says | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
Declaration of Conscience | Margaret Chase Smith |
Veto of the Internal Security Bill | Harry S. Truman |
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 | U.S. Supreme Court
Executive Order 10450 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
These People Are Frightened to Death | Judith Adkins |
LGBTQIA+ Federal Employment in the Records at the National Archives | National Archives |
Have You No Sense of Decency? | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
The Censure Case of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin | U.S. Senate Historical Office |
Trump Revives Old Tropes as He Pushes Warnings of ‘Communist Menace’ | Robert Tait |
The Smithsonian Hearing That Wanted an Uncomplicated America | ProfessorMeredith |