Red scared!: the commie menace in propaganda and pop culture

Preface: Cold War style

1. Timeline: 1848-1927, The first Red scare.

2. Timeline: 1928-1944, Between Red scares.

The Hitler-Stalin pact foments a new red scare

The Soviet pavilion at the New York World's Fair

Hollywood kids the commissars

3. Timeline: 1944-1947, Just a guy named Ivan.

Comrades in arms: Hollywood warms up to Russia

4. Timeline: 1947-1950, The Iron Curtain descends.

Could the reds seize Detroit?

How to identify and American communist

The Cold War hits the silver screen

How Hollywood told the tale of the Cold War

5. Timeline: 1950-1953, "I'm no communist".

HUAC's so-called communist front organizations to which Dashiell Hammett was linked

The love song of J. Edgar Hoover

"I led three lives," maybe more

Mickey Spillane's One Lonely Night

Television and the red menace

6. Timeline: 1953-1957, "We will bury you!"

Sputnik and the space race

Red star over Cuba

Beyond Stalin

7. Timeline: 1957-1962, Pamphlets on parade.

Timeline: 1963-2000, Kremlin komics

"Communist kisses!".