Title: In denial : historians, Communism, & espionage /
Authors: Haynes, John Earl.; Klehr, Harvey
Publisher: Encounter Books,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Communist Party of the United States of America History Archival resources.; Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) Archival resources.; Espionage, Soviet United States History Archival resources.; Communism United States History Archival resources.; Spies Soviet Union History Archival resources.; Spies United States History Archival resources.
Abstract: "In Denial shows 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. 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 the historical record on American communism and Soviet espionage.