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1. Return to Responses, Reflections and Occasional Papers
Return to Historical Writings
An Essay on Historical Writing on Domestic Communism
and Anti-Communism
By John Earl Haynes
[A edited and modified version of this essay appeared as
"The Cold War Debate Continues:
A Traditionalist Looks at Historical Writing on
Domestic Communism and Anti-Communism"
in The Journal of Cold War Studies 2,1 (Winter 2000)]
The domestic side of the Cold War has been a contentious area of scholarly debate. And the most sensitive part has been the history of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the inextricably linked issue of domestic anticommunism. One symptom of the strong emotions these issues still raise and the fear that the intellectual status quo will be upset appeared in a 1998 editorial reprimand of traditionalist scholars by the nation’s leading newspaper, the New York Times. The editorial, entitled "Revisionist McCarthyism," thundered that America should "beware the......

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