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As yet, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a reliable stream of motion pictures and memoirs decrying the problem of the Red Scare and exactly how it victimized politics innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh give for the first time the "backstory" behind this myth. They show the way the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the later 1920s, taking us inside the skin cells and discussion organizations that Communist Get together members formed, the guilds and unions they attempted to take over, and the studios they directed to impact.The authors display that many of the screenwriters who later became area of the Hollywood Ten in reality been successful in using film as a propaganda medium with respect to the Soviet cause. While others were lionizing them as blameless victims of American nativism and paranoia, the Hollywood Reds themselves were beset by doubts and disagreements about their disloyalty to America and their own treatment by the Communist Get together. Abandoned by their old CP allies, they faced the dark-colored list exclusively.Getting behind the denial and apologetics, Ronald and Allis Radosh tell the real report of one of the very most mentioned but least understood episodes in our political history, whose long half-life continues to influence the equally turbulent cultural politics of today.
