The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57

The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57
Author: Vernon L. Pedersen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252023217

He also tracks the public's changing perception of the Communists, from amused unconcern to alarm, and details how the Ober antisubversive law and the HUAC hearings of the 1950s dismantled the Party from without while planting seeds of paranoia that destroyed it from within.".