The Red Decade, the Stalinist Penetration of America

Eugene Lyons's The Red Decade is a powerful, firsthand exposé of how Soviet ideology infiltrated American intellectual, artistic, and political life during the 1930s. A former communist sympathizer and journalist who once interviewed Stalin himself, Lyons turned against Soviet totalitarianism after witnessing its brutal consequences. In this controversial but meticulously documented work, he examines how leftist movements in the U.S.—from labor unions and Hollywood circles to academia and j...