The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U. S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963

by Robbie Lieberman

Book Overview

Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II, enabling proponents of the Cold War to virtually silence the opposition until the early 1960s.

The persecution of peace activists as subversives dates back to colonial time, but the specific link between communism and peace developed out of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628412
• ISBN13: 9780815628415
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"