According to Udi Greenberg, many anti-Communist commentators in the early stages of the Cold War resurrected anti-Catholic tropes that had been deployed in the nineteenth century. Redirecting and adapting those tropes, Greenberg argues, played a crucial role in the effort to portray and vilify the Communist project.

Udi Greenberg, The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War Princeton University Press, 2015

Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion

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