Reflections on writing the history of anti-communism
Twentieth Century Communism - ISSN 1758-6437
Volume 2014 Number 6
Reflections on writing the history of anti-communism
Jean-François Fayet
Abstract
The article offers an overview of anti-communisms – ranging across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and across Eurasia and the US. It points to the ambiguity and diversity of the phenomenon, and the wide-ranging definitions of anti-communism, which occur partly because the term is so ideologically charged. It also discusses how anti-communism changed from a characterisation used by communists themselves to one that is used by historians in general.
To cite this article
Jean-François Fayet (2014) Reflections on writing the history of anti-communism, Twentieth Century Communism, 2014(6)