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The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the “world” names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950's. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist “aesthetic ideology.” The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950's (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.

Anti-communist movements --- Cold War --- Popular culture --- Aesthetics --- Anti-communist movements in literature. --- Cold War in literature. --- American literature --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Anti-communist resistance --- Underground, Anti-communist --- Communism --- World politics --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects --- History and criticism. --- Psychology --- United States --- Politics and government --- Aesthetic Ideology. --- Anti-Communism. --- Catastrophe. --- Cold War. --- Enemy. --- Modernism. --- Popular fiction. --- Secrecy. --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world!" How did Kansas go from being a progressive state to one of the most conservative? In Red State Religion, Robert Wuthnow tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present. He examines how faith mixed with politics as both ordinary Kansans and leaders such as John Brown, Carrie Nation, William Allen White, and Dwight Eisenhower struggled over the pivotal issues of their times, from slavery and Prohibition to populism and anti-communism. Beyond providing surprising new explanations of why Kansas became a conservative stronghold, the book sheds new light on the role of religion in red states across the Midwest and the United States. Contrary to recent influential accounts, Wuthnow argues that Kansas conservatism is largely pragmatic, not ideological, and that religion in the state has less to do with politics and contentious moral activism than with relationships between neighbors, friends, and fellow churchgoers. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the role of religion in American political conservatism.

Political culture --- Religion and politics --- Culture --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Kansas --- US-KS --- KS --- KA --- Kans. --- Kan. --- Kansas Territory --- Politics and government --- Abraham Lincoln. --- Bill Clinton. --- Catholics. --- Dwight D. Eisenhower. --- Franklin D. Roosevelt. --- George Tiller. --- George W. Bush. --- Great Depression. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Kansas. --- Laura Beers. --- Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Methodists. --- Middle West. --- Populism. --- Prohibition. --- Protestant churches. --- Protestants. --- Religious Right. --- Republican Party. --- Republicans. --- Richard Nixon. --- Robert F. Kennedy. --- Vietnam War. --- W. L. Beers. --- abortion. --- activism. --- anti-communism. --- antiboss Republicans. --- black power. --- churches. --- civic order. --- conservatism. --- creationism. --- crime of passion. --- desegregation. --- education. --- evolution. --- fundamentalism. --- good citizenship. --- homes. --- hometowns. --- inequality. --- moral activism. --- murder. --- political activism. --- political isolation. --- political movements. --- politics. --- racial equality. --- red state politics. --- red state religion. --- red states. --- religion. --- religious movements. --- same-sex marriage. --- slavery. --- statehood. --- Politics and government.

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Die 1948 im Auftrag der US-amerikanischen Militärregierung gegründete Zeitschrift Der Monat war ein intellektueller Brennspiegel der jungen Bundesrepublik, in dem die politischen Deutungskonflikte - mit Fokus auf den Nationalsozialismus, den Sowjetkommunismus und die Zukunft der westlichen Welt - ausgetragen wurden. Zu ihrem Renommee trug bei, dass sie zahlreiche prominente Autoren wie Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Hans Kohn, Herbert Lüthy, George F. Kennan oder auch die Exkommunisten Arthur Koestler, George Orwell und Richard Löwenthal versammelte. Joachim Gmehling zeigt, welches Bild in der Zeitschrift vom nationalsozialistischen und sowjetkommunistischen Herrschaftssystem gezeichnet wurde und wie der Vergleich der beiden Diktaturen ausfiel. Dabei rekonstruiert er nicht nur den Einfluss der zeitgenössischen Totalitarismustheorien sowie die Imperative der US-amerikanischen Besatzungspolitik in Westdeutschland, sondern geht auch auf die CIA-Hintergründe des Periodikums ein. Eine Studie zu den Anfängen des Kalten Krieges, die angesichts der vielschichtigen Krise der westlichen Demokratien an Aktualität gewinnt.

Deutschland; Kalter Krieg; Totalitarismustheorie; Nationalsozialismus; Sowjetkommunismus; Kongress Für Kulturelle Freiheit; CIA; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Intellektuelle; Antikommunismus; Kulturgeschichte; Politik; Amerikanische Geschichte; Deutsche Geschichte; Zeitgeschichte; Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Geschichtswissenschaft; Germany; Cold War; Theory of Totalitarianism; National Socialism; Soviet Communism; Congress For Cultural Freedom; Coming To Terms With the Past; Intellectuals; Anti-Communism; Cultural History; Politics; American History; German History; Contemporary History; History of the 20th Century; History --- American History. --- Anti-Communism. --- Cold War. --- Coming To Terms With the Past. --- Congress For Cultural Freedom. --- Contemporary History. --- Cultural History. --- German History. --- History of the 20th Century. --- History. --- Intellectuals. --- National Socialism. --- Politics. --- Soviet Communism. --- Theory of Totalitarianism. --- Monat (Berlin, Germany) --- 1945-1990 --- Germany (West) --- Soviet Union. --- Politics and government --- Ber. ha-M. --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- ESSD --- FSSR --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyīt --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Ittiḥād-i Shūrav --- KhSHM --- PSRS --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Russia --- Russland --- Rusyah --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- Shūrav --- SNTL --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- Soi͡uz Radi͡ansʹkykh Sot͡sialistychnykh Respublik --- Soi͡uz Sovetskikh Sot͡sialisticheskikh Respublik --- Soi͡uz SSR --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Soyuz SSR --- SRSR --- SSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- SSṚM --- SSSR --- Su-lien --- Szovjetuni --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- TSRS --- UdSSR --- Uni Soviet --- Uni Sovjet --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- Union soviétique --- Unione Sovietica --- URSS --- USSR --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- ZSRR --- ZSRS --- Związek Radziecki --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich --- 1949 --- -Alemania Federal --- B.R.D. --- Batı Almanya --- Bondsrepubliek Duitsland --- BRD --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- F.R.G. --- Federal Almanya --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federativnai͡a Respublika Germanii --- FRG --- G.F.R. --- German Federal Republic --- Germanskai͡a Federalʹnai͡a Respublika --- Germany --- GFR --- Hsi-te cheng fu --- Ḥukūmat Almānyā al-Ittiḥādīyah --- N.R.F. --- N.S.R. --- N.Sz.K. --- Nĕmecká spolková republika --- Német Szövetségi Köztársaság --- Niemiecka Republika Federalna --- NRF --- NSR --- NSzK --- R.F.A. --- R.F.N. --- Repubblica federale di Germania --- Repubblica federale tedesca --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republik Federasi Jerman --- Republika Federalna Niemiec --- Republiḳah ha-federalit ha-Germanit --- République fédérale allemande --- République fédérale d'Allemagne --- RFA --- RFN --- Te-i-chih lien pang kung ho kuo --- Tyske forbundsrepublik --- West Germany --- Western Germany --- Germany (East)

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At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.

Intellectuals --- Research institutes --- Cold War --- Institutes, Research --- Research centers --- Think tanks --- Universities and colleges --- Learned institutions and societies --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Political activity --- History --- Social aspects --- Asia --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Intellectual life --- Aftermath of World War II. --- Aggression. --- Anti-Americanism. --- Anti-capitalism. --- Anti-communism. --- Anti-individualism. --- Anti-intellectualism. --- Antipathy. --- Aphorism. --- Armistice. --- Authoritarianism. --- Behavioralism. --- Behavioural sciences. --- Bernard Brodie (military strategist). --- Carpet bombing. --- Clash of Civilizations. --- Cold War. --- Communism. --- Communist International. --- Communist propaganda. --- Conventional warfare. --- Counter-insurgency. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Counter-terrorism. --- Creation myth. --- Criticism. --- Culture war. --- Decolonization. --- Defection. --- Demoralization (warfare). --- Deterrence theory. --- Disarmament. --- Disenchantment. --- Distrust. --- Espionage. --- Explanation. --- Foreign policy. --- Global catastrophic risk. --- Ideology. --- Incest. --- Indoctrination. --- Insurgency. --- Isolationism. --- Korean War. --- Korean conflict. --- Loss of China. --- Militarism. --- Militarization. --- Mind control. --- Modernization theory. --- Narcissism. --- National security. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazism. --- North Korean defectors. --- Nuclear strategy. --- Nuclear warfare. --- On Aggression. --- On Thermonuclear War. --- Oppression. --- Persecution. --- Political apathy. --- Political censorship. --- Political commissar. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Prisoner of war. --- Propaganda. --- Proxy war. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychological warfare. --- RAND Corporation. --- Racism. --- Radicalization. --- Reprisal. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientism. --- Separatism. --- Social science. --- Society of the United States. --- Sociology. --- Sovietization. --- Strategic bombing. --- Subversion. --- The Authoritarian Personality. --- The Wehrmacht (documentary). --- Total war. --- Totalitarianism. --- Un-American. --- Viet Cong. --- War economy. --- War effort. --- War of ideas. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Wars of national liberation. --- Weapon of mass destruction. --- World War II. --- World communism.

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The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication networks.

HISTORY / General --- Politics and government. --- Communism. --- Communication in politics. --- Anti-communist movements. --- HISTORY --- Anti-communist movements --- Communism --- Communication in politics --- Political communication --- Political science --- Anti-communist resistance --- Underground, Anti-communist --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Italy. --- History --- Italy --- Italia --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliyā --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Ιταλία --- Итальянская Республика --- Италианска република --- Италия --- Италия Республикаси --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Італія --- Італійська Республіка --- איטאליע --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- إيطاليا --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- イタリア --- イタリア共和国 --- 意大利 --- 意大利共和国 --- 이탈리아 --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- Sardinia (Italy) --- Politics and government --- Italian Republic --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Īṭāliy --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- Anti-Communism. --- Catholic associations. --- Christian democracy. --- Cold War. --- Italian Communism. --- Political communication. --- Political culture. --- Political languages. --- Post-Second World War Italy.