Some analysts see the rise of McCarthyism as conservatives taking political advantage of the Communist issue to lash out at New Deal people and roll back their work. A person or idea that seeks change through the political system. The Russian Revolution produced two factions that sought to succeed Czarist rule. The Red faction was the winner. The children of people who were accused or otherwise investigated as Communists or suspected sympathizers during the 1940s and 1950s.
Red scares continue to lesser extent in American politics.
Its official pervue was finding suspected compromises in security by government employees. The constitutional amendment that enumerates the right of an accused person to face his or her accusers and refute the charges. The work is know by the project code name of Venona. It has been important after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Venona decrypts were matched with information from Russian archives about spying. The losing faction in the Russian revolutionary struggle.