Socialism, Bolshevism, and the Red Scare

The famed Italian anarchists who were electrocuted for murder in 1927, Ferdinando Nicolo Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) both traveled to Mexico in 1917 in part to avoid being...

The Communist Party in the United States never attracted anything like the levels of mass support of their European counterparts. To a large extent, this was because the New Deal under FDR...

The First Red Scare helped change the United States politically, economically, and socially. The Red Scare came after the Progressive Era and World War I. By 1920, Americans were looking for...

The business community in the 1920s was able to use the Red Scare to help get the general public to side with it over the labor movement. It was able to do this by painting the labor movement as a...

It should be noted when speaking about fears of radicalism that this was not entirely an invention. There were radicals within the United States and they did at times use violence. You can look...

The Red Scare was a period of anti-communist and anti-radical hysteria that gripped the United States after World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. In some ways, it was an outgrowth of the...

The federal government of the United States during the 1920s was notable for a conscious turn from the Progressive politics of the first part of the twentieth century. The presidents of the...

I think that the Red Scare really did much to bring out the "harmonious dissonance" of society in the time period. One of the reasons why the 1920s has monikers like "the Jazz Age" or "the Roaring...

As fear of communism specifically, but radicals in general, grew after World War I, the potential for a Red Scare overreaction grew along with it. There had been many, many recent immigrants to...

Okay, sorry about that. So for the WWI one, here goes: The major thing that was going on in international politics was the Russian Revolution. In 1917, Russia had become communist, becoming the...

Starting in the late 1800s, disputes between the working class and upper/management class escalated, partly because of industrialization. Industry de-emphasized agricultural and rural life,...

In answering this question, I will assume that you are asking about the Red Scare that occurred after World War I. There are at least three main reasons for this scare. The first reason for the...

Much of this is going to be dependent on how one defines "conservatism." If one is defining it as a demonstration of strength of central authority, then the Red Scare would have functioned as an...

I would have to go with a false vote on the question. I think the Red Scare was motivated by the fear of Communism and the changing principles in Europe. The period in which the first Red Scare...

I think that what made socialism more frightening to people after WWI was mainly the creation of the Soviet Union. I would point out, however, that I am not sure that it was the working class after...

I'll address the Red Scare of the 1920s, since it was the one that involved the most change. After Russia fell to the Bolsheviks in 1917-1918, America was afraid that Russian agents would seek to...

The mood of Americans after World War I can be seen in responses to the Red Scare, increasing immigration, and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Americans wanted to turn inward. We wanted to...

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian American anarchists convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1920, crimes for which they were executed seven years later. Their executions came...

Although the Red Scare is an American phenomenon, it is rooted in the First World War and the 1917 Russian Revolution. While the U.S. was still at war with Germany, the new Bolshevik government...

The Palmer Raids were caused by two main factors. One of these was domestic while the other was international. On the international scene, there was the Russian Revolution and the general rise of...

Even today, this question is one on which historians differ based on their political beliefs. For liberals, there is a strong feeling that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and executed because of...

In answering this question, it is important that we realize that there is no way to objectively know what causes human beings to have certain attitudes. We can speculate about what things would...

There are at least two possible ways to answer this question. First, the jury might have found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty because the two men were actually guilty. Second, the jury might have...