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Downfall of the Republic! The 1877 General Strike and the Fictions of Red Scare
- Canadian Review of American Studies
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 46, Number 3, Winter 2016
- pp. 386-408
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This paper argues that the strategic fictions of Communist insurrection circulated during the July 1877 general strike helped President Rutherford B. Hayes authorize the US Army intervention against the strikers. It reads apocalyptic telegrams sent to Hayes beside a pulp novella, The Commune in 1880; Downfall of the Republic.
Résumé:
Cet article défend l’idée que les fictions stratégiques de l’insurrection communiste diffusées pendant la grève générale de 1877 ont permis au président Rutherford B. Hayes d’autoriser l’armée des États-Unis à intervenir contre les grévistes. Les télégrammes apocalyptiques envoyés à Hayes sont confrontés à un court roman populaire intitulé The Commune in 1880; Downfall of the Republic.
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