Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S. Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees [Hardcover]

Taking a new look at two controversial topics, American anti-Communism and the Cold War, this book reveals the little known history of anti-Communism in the US from the point of view of ethnic refugee/?migr? groups, and also offers insight into the lives of minority groups that have hitherto not received scholarly attention.Preface; I.Zake Introduction: Anti-Communism and American Ethnic Groups; J.Radzilowski PART I: THE COLD WAR WARRIORS The Polish American Congress, Polish Americans and the Politics of Anti-Communism; D.Pienkos Fighting Moscow from Afar: Ukrainian-Americans and the Evil Empire; M.Kuropas The American Armenians' Cold War: The Divided Response to Soviet Armenia; B.F.Alexander One Goal, Many Paths: Internal and External Struggles of the Hungarian ?migr?s; J.Fai-Podlipnik The Highs and Lows of Czech and Slovak ?migr? Activism; P.Tomek Multiple Fronts of the Cold War: Ethnic Anti-Communism of Latvian ?migr?s; I.Zake Small, but Vociferous: Bulgarian Ethnic Anti-Communist Groups; V.Paraskevov 'The Voice of the Silenced Peoples': the Assembly of Captive European Nations; A.Mazurkiewicz PART II: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: FACING COMMUNISM AROUND THE WORLD 'Better Dead than Red': Anti-Communist Politics among Vietnamese Americans; C.N.Le Hmong Anti-Communism at Home and Abroad; C.Y.Vang Conflict and Cooperation: Cuban Exile Anti-Communism and the United States, 1960-2000; J.Gibbs & A.Goodall Conclusion; I.Zake

The scholars who have contributed to Zake's collection offer a unique look at a critical yet often overlooked dimension of ethnic life in the United States during the post-WWII period.Anti-communism has exerted an important influence on the politics within many ethnic communities and they in turn had an impact on postwar U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics often disproportionate to their numbers.Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S. thus fills an important gap in the historiography. - John J. Bukowczyk, Professor of History, Wayne StalãÇ