Volume 46, Number 1 · January 14, 1999
The Red Scare
By Sam Tanenhaus
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
by Ellen Schrecker
Little, Brown, 573 pp., $29.95
Ellen Schrecker's Many Are the Crimes appears at a time when, thanks to the fall of the Soviet Union, new information about the subject of communism is becoming available. The sporadic release of classified documents here and abroad has settled matters hotly disputed only decades ago. We know now that the American Communist Party served from its inception in 1919 as an outpost of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern) and that a disciplined espionage 'apparatus,' controlled by Soviet intelligence, infiltrated the US government in the 1930s and 1940s and placed spies inside the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
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