The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Threat: Domestic Sources of the Cold War Consensus

by Alan Wolfe

Historical examination of the ideology of the Soviet "threat", and its place in U.S. politics.

145 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1980

About the author

Alan Wolfe is professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. The author and editor of more than twenty books, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harper's, and the Atlantic. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Devin]

“if americans wake up to the danger posed from those within their midst who would destroy the best features of their country in order to militarize it against a misunderstood enemy, they have a chance to create the kind of future they will then deserve”