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"IN DENIAL Historians, Communism &
Espionage
By John Earl Haynes
Harvey Klehr
From the Cover
This is a book explaining how, beginning in the late 1960s, the study of American communism was taken over by “revisionist” historians who attempted to portray the United States as the aggressor in the Cold War and saw the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as an admirable force for democracy. Today, more than a decade after the death of the Soviet communism, revisionists remain dismissive of Stalin’s crimes and greatly underscore the degree to which the CPUSA apologized for Stalinism and assisted Soviet espionage. Under their influence, the leading historical journals continue to teach that America’s rejection of the Communist Party was a tragic error, that American Communists were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that those anticommunist liberals and conservatives who fought against the CPUSA in the 1950s were contemptible villains.
Haynes and Klehr discuss the astounding intellectual contortions that leading academics, including two former presidents of the Organization of American Historians, go through in order to distort historical record on American communism and Soviet espionage. They detail how revisionists have either ignored the revelations from the Soviet archives and Venona or tried to minimize their importance, and how they continue to insist, against all evidence, that Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and others who betrayed the United States were more sinned against than sinning.
In analyzing the work of leading American scholars who still whitewash Stalin’s regime and its American supporters, John Haynes and Harvey Klehr have stepped into the middle of one of the bitterest controversies in our intellectual life. In Denial makes clear that while communism may be dead, conflict over the meaning of the Communist experience in America is still very much with us.
The enormous human cost of communism barely registers in American intellectual life. Worse, a sizeable cadre of American intellectuals now openly applaud and apologize for one of the bloodiest ideologies of human history, and instead of being treated as pariahs, they hold distinguished positions in American higher education and cultural life. How is it possible that the memory of Communist crimes could have vanished so swiftly while the memory of Nazi crimes remains so fresh? Because of the BIG Lies, from America’s so-called historians. The following Communist apologists, Explaining Away the Documents-ignoring, minimizing or obfuscating facts that might put American communism in poor light.
From the book:
Jerry F. Hough of Duke University, Shelia Fitzpatrick of the University of Chicago, Robert Thurston University of Ohio, J. Arch Getty University of California, Alfred Rieber University of Pennsylvania, Peter M. Irons University of California, Gabriel Kolko-influential revisionist-Katyn Massacre-no evidence
Theodore Von Laue-approves of mass murder as a means of social modernization
Barbara Foley an English professor at Rutgers University, Grover Furr an English professor at Montclair State University, Fredric Jameson at Duke University,
David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge under Truman and Eisenhower
Robert Griffith-radicalism a good thing, opposition to it, was foul
Eric Foner the Dewitt Professor at Columbia University, past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association and also a member of a well-known family of Communists; his father and two uncles lost teaching jobs because of their communist party membership. In The Story of American Freedom, published in 1998 and lavishly praised in academia, Foner made the American Communist Party into a heroic organization that profoundly changed American history for the better, “the center of gravity for a broad democratic upsurge,” and one of the “focal points of a broad social and intellectual impulse, a ‘cultural front’ that helped to redraw the boundaries of American freedom.” His account of the American Communist Party was so unbalanced that Theodore Draper judged it “bizarre.” noting in his book Foner had shown “no such enthusiasm for any other organization in all of American history.”
Herbert Aptheker-longtime Communist and historian
Gerda Lerner professor of history emerita at the University of Wisconsin and president of the Organization of American History in 1981was an early sign of the leading role achieved by radical historians in professional associations. Lerner was a Communist until after Khrushchev’s confirmation of Stalin’s crime. After dropping out of the CPUSA she became a “post-Marxist” radical as well as a pioneering feminist historian.
See No Evil
Paul Buhle- a New Left activist, Dan Georgakas-New York U, Michael J. Heale-Communism apologist, Michael Brown-Northeastern University, Mark Naison-Fordham University, Gerald Horne U of NC, Paul Lyons-Stockton College
Ellen Schrecker- Yeshiva University Robin D.G. Kelley-New York U-revisionist historian, Norman Markowitz- Rutgers University, Alan Wald- University of Michigan, Alan Singer-Hofstra University, Blanche Wiesen Cook-New York
Joel Kovel-Bard College, Fraser Ottanelli- U of South Florida, Edward Johanningsmeier- U of Delaware, Michael E. Parrish- U of California,
A Conspiracy Theory, or Plain Lies
William Reuben-Journalist, Victor Navasky-The Nation, William Kunstler-radical lawyer, Bernice Schrank-Professor Memorial University Canada, Malcolm Sylvers- radical American historian, Michael Karni- Communism apologist,
Michael Rogin U of California, Berkeley, Robbie Lieberman- Professor Southern Illinois, Bernard Knox- Professor Harvard-Yale, Dr. Peter Carroll, chair of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
Lies about Spies
James Patterson-holder of the Ford Foundation Chair of American History at Brown University- denial of the Soviets in Katyn Forrest Massacre of Polish Officers
Bernice Schrank-Professor Memorial University Canada
Norman Markowitz- Rutgers University
John Lowenthal-Professor City University New York
Wishing Away Archival Evidence
Roger Sandilands- Communist apologist -Professor U of Strathclyde Great Britain
Bernice Schrank-Professor Memorial University Canada
John Lowenthal-Professor City University New York
Victor Navasky-The Nation
Athan Theoharis-Professor Marquette University
James Boughton-Former Professor Indiana University
From Denial to Justication
Victor Navasky-The Nation
Bernice Schrank-Professor Memorial University Canada
Walter and Miriam Schneir
Michael E. Parrish- U of California
Joel Kovel-Communist apologist
Corliss Lamont-Columbia U
Bruce Craig-historian that believes that those who spied for Stalin did for good reasons.
Constructing a Myth of a Lost Cause
Ellen Schrecker- Yeshiva University
Robert Korstad-Duke University
Nelson Lichtenstein- U of California
Alan Wald- University of Michigan
- Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: Encounter Books; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (October 1, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 159403088X
- ISBN-13: 978-1594030888
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 43 customer reviews
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- #44783 in World History (Books)
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