McCarthyism, a term used to relate to an event in the past similar the Salem Witch Trial. After World War 2, many Americans are dubious about their lives, so they joined different organizations or parties in search for a better future. Many joined the Communist Party hoping it would be fortunate for...

Analysis of “Soviet Agents Plotting to Ruin Unity, Defenses of Americas” In June of 1950, Will Lissner wrote an informative article on the Soviets’ plan to break the American defenses via Central America, more specifically Guatemala. Lissner’s article presents these Soviet diplomats as hav...

Intimacy And Terror Andrei Stepanovich Arzhilovsky Andrei Stepanovich Arzhilovsky “was accused of counter revolutionary agitation” (Arzhilovsky p.112) as a result his diary was analyzed by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) which resulted in Arzhilovsky’s execution. According to the NKVD the...

How did Stalin and the CPSU control the USSR? Why did Stalin regard this as important? There were various ways Stalin and the communist party (CPSU) controlled the population of the USSR. This included Stalin’s economic revolution, gaining control over the public through propaganda, introduc...