Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard professors, many of whom wereworld-renowned experts on topics like Communism,nuclear weapons and U.S.-Soviet relations, alsoexposed the Class of '49 to an unusually highlevel of political debate...
...sweet that one struggles (though unsuccessfully) to join in the son's self-deception. William F. Buckley Jr., who as a young conservative in the 1950s was a friend to both Chambers and McCarthy, gives his version of McCarthy in a documentary novel, The Redhunter. And in Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr analyze the deciphered '40s cable traffic, recently released, between Soviet agents working in America and their masters in Moscow--files that show there was far more spying, and far more complicity by American party members, than was previously thought...
...Herbert Romerstein, former minority chief investigator of the House Internal Security Committee (which used to be HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee), and the late Eric Breindel. The book will make sensational charges, among them Romerstein's claim that the radical journalist I.F. Stone was a paid Soviet agent...
...much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion of South Korea, something was wrong in the world. The opening of Soviet archives after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., together with the Venona decryptions, which the National...
...Venona traffic validates the "even paranoids have enemies" school. Although Venona might have saved America a lot of internal strife had it been released years ago, it demonstrates beyond argument that the Soviet penetration into American life, government, science and industry during the '30s and '40s was deep, thorough and hostile. Venona shows that the American Communist Party was elaborately involved in the spying (though of course only a small minority of party members were actual spies). To fake the Venona traffic would have required a conspiracy involving thousands, working together over many years. Furthermore, the decrypted messages are often...