Institute for Historical Review

The Pro-Red Orchestra In the USA, 1941

Contents

• Part 1: Opinions and opinion makers in the USA
• Part 2: Winston Churchill as a factor influencing Americans at the outset, June 1941
• Part 3: Initial reaction of interventionist spokesmen and press to the Soviet entry into the European war
• Part 4: Some diplomatic and economic straws in the wind
• Part 5: The Roosevelt administration and press supporters lean toward aid at the time of the August 1941 Atlantic Conference
• Part 6: The main pockets of resistance to supporting Stalin
• Part 7: American Communists as a complication in the Soviet aid debate
• Part 8: Time, corporate America and 'culture' contribute to the confusion
• Part 9: New voices in behalf of assistance to Stalin, at home and abroad
• Part 10: Continued annoyance from influential anti-Soviet liberal personalities, while pro-aid forces gain in academe
• Part 11: October 1941 polls register a gain in aid-to-Stalin sentiment
• Part 12: President Roosevelt creates a diversion over the religious issue
• Part 13: Diplomatic moves toward vastly increased military aid to Stalin
• Part 14: Culture, big names, and the well-placed lend their assistance to the building pro-Soviet bandwagon
• Part 15: Echoes of the religious dust-up reverberate
• Part 16: British propaganda diversions, and related American Anglophile support for the growing enhancement of Stalin
• Part 17: Fellow travelers -- domestic and foreign -- add their bit
• Part 18: Vote of no confidence from the Saturday Evening Post
• Part 19: Some practical consequences of Soviet aid get aired
• Part 20: The origins of "second front" talk in the West, and the impact of Soviet aid production on American labor and business/ businessmen
• Part 21: Pearl Harbor forces a temporary diversion in the overall drive to assist the Soviet Union
• Part 22: Reactions and second-guessing following Stalin's avoidance of involvement in the war Against Japan
• Part 23: The dimensions of the propaganda war as waged by the authors and publishers
• Part 24: The ante rises after Pearl Harbor on production and appropriations for Stalin
• Part 25: Davies' book, Mission to Moscow, sets the tone on the adulation of Soviet Communism for the rest of the war
• Part 26: Endnotes