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Article: Anticommunism
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- Dictionary of American History
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ANTICOMMUNISM
ANTICOMMUNISM
was a stance rather than a movement. It did not revolve around a principal anticommunist organization or a core ideology. Anticommunists were defined by what they were against rather than what they were for. Rather than a single anticommunism, there were numerous varieties, and since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia a multitude of civil, political, and religious organizations incorporated anticommunism as a subsidiary part of their activities while countless single-purpose and usually short-lived anticommunist organizations sprang up. The various anticommunisms did not follow a common agenda aside from their shared opposition to communism or even ...