Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao
American Communists: Beyond the Red Scare
S1 E5:
Track the growth of communism in the United States, where the Great Depression was a golden age for recruitment, especially since the party treated all workers as equal victims of capitalism. Note how espionage often went hand in hand with party membership, and survey successive “red scares” such as the McCarthy period, and the punitive response of US authorities.