Menace of Our Time provides a history of the repression against the Communist Party, USA, the longest-lasting, most intensive, domestic repressive campaign ever undertaken against a political organization in the United States. While the magnitude of attacks between the years 1917-1991 varied, there was never a time when U.S. communism was not a high-priority target of the U.S. political, social, and criminal justice apparatus. There has never been anything on this scale, before or since.
Menace of Our Time provides a history of the repression against the Communist Party, USA, the longest-lasting, most intensive, domestic repressive campaign ever undertaken against a political organization in the United States. While the magnitude of attacks between the years 1917-1991 varied, there was never a time when U.S. communism was not a high-priority target of the U.S. political, social, and criminal justice apparatus. There has never been anything on this scale, before or since.
AARON J. LEONARD is an author and historian. Among his books are Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, The Folk Singers & the Bureau, and Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2024).
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Contents Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Opening Salvos (1901-1920) 2. Underground and Above (1921-1927) 3. The Third Period (1928-1933) 4. Marginalized in the Mainstream (1934-1939) 5. To War (1939-1945) 6. Clampdown (1946-1947) 7. Decapitation & Violence (1948-1949) 8. Prison and Pursuit (1950-1953) 9. Disruption (1954-1963) 10. Hounded (1964-1970) 11. Final Conflicts (1971-1991) Conclusion Appendix I: CPUSA Leaders Imprisoned Appendix II: FBI Files Referenced Chronology Acknowledgments Bibliography Index