British and US Anticommunism Between the World Wars

Olmsted, Kathryn S.

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“…One California group, for example, ultimately recruited spies to infiltrate student groups, women peace activists, the Young Men's and Women's Christian Association, and many others. 67 Spying took a different turn when the Minnesota Jewish community became fearful of Christian nationalists and fascist paramilitary groups. In 1936, the community's newly formed defense organization, the Anti-Defamation Council, began "mapping" the Silver Shirts, the most prominent such group in the area.…”

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Antisemitism without Quotas at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and 1940s: Anticommunist Politics, the Surveillance of Jewish Students, and American Antisemitism

Prell¹

2021

American Jewish History

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wrote to G. R. Higgins, his counterpart at the University of Minnesota, on a matter he asked to be kept "just between us": the "big problem" of Jewish boys and girls. He sought advice about managing the use of Cornell's student union by Jewish students in the six weeks of summer session, when the building became what he described as "a Jew picnic." Although the enrollment of "Hebrews" was the same in the summer as over the rest of the school-year-about fifteen percent of the student body-he estimated that "one-hundred percent" of people using the union during the summer were "Jewish boys and girls." They used the union, he wrote, like a "country club" and travelled "in packs as is their curious custom." Coffin could not identify any "specific sin" committed by these students, but complained they "do get in our hair," and worried that they brought "unregistered" friends into the union. At Minnesota, he asked Higgins, "Do you frisk them at the gate" for their credentials? 2 1. Research for this paper was conducted, in part, for the 2017 exhibition at the University of Minnesota entitled A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism, and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota 1930Minnesota -1942. Sarah Atwood and I served as co-curators of that exhibition. Some of the research was carried out by assistants under my direction, by Atwood, and subseqently by Patrick Wilz. In 2017, I curated the digital exhibition: Acampusdivided.umn.edu. The College of Liberal Arts and the Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Minnesota provided funding for the research.

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Antisemitism without Quotas at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and 1940s: Anticommunist Politics, the Surveillance of Jewish Students, and American Antisemitism

Prell¹

2021

American Jewish History

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“…This discourse, she adds, portrayed the USSR as 'a land of unimaginable horrors for families' and accused American Communist Party leaders of showing 'contempt for gender norms and for their duty to protect a white woman's safety.' 74 Most of the previously discussed themes were brought together in full display in 1968, in the landmark movie On the Borders of Treason, directed by Dimis. The picture was produced in the first year of the Dictatorship by former 20th Century Fox employee, James Paris, who introduced big budget production to Greece a few years earlier.…”

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The Visual Politics of Fear: Anti-Communist Imagery in Postwar Greece

Kazamias

2022

Journal of Contemporary History

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From the mid-1940s to the fall of the Colonels’ Dictatorship in 1974, Greek society was defined by an official anti-communist discourse that divided it into ‘nationally-minded’ Ethnikofron citizens and left-wing ‘enemies of the nation’. The article shows how this power discourse deployed visual media to construct an emotional regime of fear around communism during and after the Greek Civil War. It uncovers a large volume of propaganda imagery, including posters, illustrations, book covers, photographs, newsreels and feature films, which was used alongside texts and corporeal practices to vilify the Greek left. The article argues that the visual language of Ethnikofrosyni patterned itself on older scripts of negative othering embedded in Greek popular culture, such as lycanthropy, teratology, witchcraft, Islamophobia and Orientalism to discredit communism without engaging with its twentieth-century ideas and policies. Communists were therefore portrayed as monsters, beasts, barbarians, Muslims, Turks, Jews and unfeminine women to arouse primordial fears that threatened the deepest symbols of Greek national identity. The article stresses the centrality and relative autonomy of images in the discourse of Ethnikofrosyni and uses comparisons to unveil the processes of circulation and domestication operating across different national strands of anti-communism in the Cold War.

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United States Communist History Bibliography 2018

Filardo¹

2019

American Communist History

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British and US Anticommunism Between the World Wars

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Antisemitism without Quotas at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and 1940s: Anticommunist Politics, the Surveillance of Jewish Students, and American Antisemitism

Antisemitism without Quotas at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and 1940s: Anticommunist Politics, the Surveillance of Jewish Students, and American Antisemitism

The Visual Politics of Fear: Anti-Communist Imagery in Postwar Greece

United States Communist History Bibliography 2018

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