Name: The Naked Communist
ISBN: 9781568493671

Willard Cleon Skousen

Amerikansk propaganda. Den russiske kommunismes fremkomst og udvikling siden revolutionen i 1917 og indtil 1950'erne. En amerikansk advarsel mod kommunismen. Bl.a. behandles hvordan Rusland blev en kommunistisk verdensmagt, kommunismen og 2. Verdenskrig, kommunismen i USA, og hvordan Sovjetunionen har forsøgt at påvirke den tredie verden efter afslutningen af 2. Verdenskrig og Koreakrigen.

The Naked Communist

W. Skousen

A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across the United States. From the tragic falls of China, Korea, Russia, and the UN, to the fascinating histories of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and General MacArthur, The Naked Communist lays out the entire graphic story of communism, its past, present, and future.After searching unsuccessfully for a concise literature on the communist threat, W. Cleon Skousen saw the urgent need for a comprehensive book that could guide the American conversation. So he distilled his FBI experience, decades of research, and more than one hundred communist books and treatises into one clarifying, readable volume that became a touchstone of American values and earned praise from the likes of President Ronald Reagan, Glenn Beck, and Ben Carson. Lauded by one reviewer as "the most powerful book on communism since J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit," this text draws a detailed picture of the communist as he sees himself: stripped of propaganda and pretense. Readers gain a unique insight into the inner workings of communism-its appeal, its history, its basic and unchanging concepts, even its secret timetable of conquest. Among the many questions The Naked Communist answers are:* Who gave the United States' nuclear secrets to the Russians?* How did the FBI fight communism after it was forced underground in 1918?* Why did the West lose 600 million allies after World War II?* What really happened in Korea?* What is communism's great secret weapon?* What lies ahead?* What can I do to stop communism?* How can we fight communism without a major war?Now updated for 2017, this edition includes a chapter on the forty-five Communist Goals, detailing how forty-four of those goals have been achieved in the U.S. already, as well as a chapter on the making of The Naked Communist, shedding light on how this book has sold almost two million copies. As relevant now as it was sixty years ago, Skousen's groundbreaking work provides a renewed understanding of one of the greatest threats facing America today.

Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

Fonzi D

Very good breakdown of the history of Communist thought and its application in various states up through the 1950s. It's very obviously told from a small-government conservative Christian perspective and doesn't hide it. I don't think that makes it a bad, but it does make some parts of it less convincing if you don't come from that perspective already.

Overall, its message is an important one. How Communism is sold to the public and what it really teaches can be very confusing for people who don't sit down to read the original texts and examine the history of how the proponents of its application have tried to do so.