Harvey Klehr

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Harvey Klehr |Clay Risen

By: Harvey KlehrThe Red Scare—the era from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s during which fears of domestic communism became one of the major issues in American political life—has generated innumerable books and articles dedicated to documenting its alleged victims and searching for those ultimately responsible for the harm it inflicted and the ways in which it distorted American culture.

Nov 25, 2024 | tandfonline.com | John Haynes |Harvey Klehr

AbstractIn 1995, Committee for State Security lieutenant general Vitaly Pavlov published “The Time Has Come to Talk about Operation ‘Snow’” in News of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Pavlov maintained that, in early 1941, Soviet intelligence had concluded that Germany would invade the USSR and Japan would use the opportunity to invade the Soviet Far East, confronting the USSR with an unwinnable two-front war.

Nov 17, 2024 | conservativereview.com | Harvey Klehr

Nov 17, 2024 | freebeacon.com | Harvey Klehr

If Martha Dodd Stern had been a minimally important or competent Soviet spy, her story would make a rip-roaring Hollywood movie. But despite Brendan McNally’s effort to inflate the damage she did to American interests—Traitor’s Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga of Soviet Espionage—the fact remains that her career as a spy was relatively brief and largely unsuccessful.

Sep 11, 2024 | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Harvey Klehr

REVIEW: ‘To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism’ by Sean McMeekin By: Harvey Klehr Sean McMeekin’s new book about the trajectory of the most consequential political movement of the 20th century, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, is an ambitious effort to chronicle an ideology birthed in the early 1900s by a heretofore obscure exile that managed to seize power in Russia, inspire imitators around the world, and by the end of the 1970s...