Review: In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage
Filed Under (Library, Review) by Morbid Romantic on Sep 19, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
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In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr
Publisher: Encounter Books; 2005
Genre: Historical
Pages: 299
Rating: 4 stars
There are two types of historians: traditional and revisionist. According to Haynes and Klehr, revisionist historians have dominated the area of Cold War history for too long. Among the crimes of the Cold War historians are denial, justification, and outright lies. After the opening of the Soviet Archives, it was released that the American Communist Party had more influence from Moscow than originally thought. Espionage was more rampant than people thought… perhaps, just maybe, McCarthy wasn’t on a wild witch hunt. Revisionist historians have since continued to deny horrors and influence, have mitigated events, and manipulate evidence to justify Stalin and espionage. However, I think that Harvey and Klehr would have had a more sound argument had they not come off sounding unprofessional in their direct usage of personal insults and adjectives.
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