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The book was controversial and widely noticed, pushing Gitlow into the public eye as a leading opponent of American communism. The book remains an important primary document for the study of American communism in the 1920s and 1930s. [1] In 1948, Gitlow followed his 1940 memoir with a steamier retelling of old tales called The Whole of Their ...
The following is a list of anti-communist books, this being books heavily critical or expressing opposition towards the ideology of communism as a central or reoccurring theme. Some of these works may overlap communism with socialism , particularly those based on or set in the Soviet Union .
The historian Eberhard Kolb calls the January Revolt the revolution's Battle of the Marne (Germany's July 1918 battlefield defeat that led directly to the Armistice). The 1919 uprising and its brutal end exacerbated the already deep divisions in the workers' movement and fuelled more political radicalisation.
t. e. The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, [3] were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. This revolutionary wave is sometimes referred to as the Autumn of Nations, [4][5][6][7][8] a play ...
[14] In 1998, Geoffrey Wheatcroft criticised certain aspects of anti-anti-communism. He suggested that "one mark of the true anti-anti-communist is an evasive use of language" such as downplaying historical Soviet espionage. [13] Linguist Noam Chomsky noted double standards in his criticism of The Black Book of Communism.
t. e. A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism. Historically, "red scares" have led to mass political persecution, scapegoating, and the ousting of those in government positions who have had connections with left-wing to far-left ideology.
34187185. We the Living is the debut novel of the Russian American novelist Ayn Rand. It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism. Rand observes in the foreword that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Rand finished writing the novel in 1934, but ...
Workers' and soldiers' councils, for which the term "soviets" (German: Räte, singular Rat) was coined, were first set up during the Russian Revolution.The increasingly straitened living standards of German workers under the hardships of World War I made political parties such as the Independent Social Democrats (USPD), which opposed the war, more and more appealing.