John Scott. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Edited by Stephen Kotkin. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. xxv, 306 pp. $27.50 cloth; $9.95 paper. An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: the Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934. Edited by Michael Gelb. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. 363 pp. $29.95.

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-337
Author(s):  
Paul Krause
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Urals ◽  
American Worker

Book Review: Reappraising the Environmental Revolution: A Review Article The Limits of Altruism by G. HARDIN. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. 1978. pp. 154. £7.00 Current Issues in US Environmental Policy edited by P. R. PORTNEY. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1978. pp. 207. £10.50 H/B; £3.50 P/B Environmental Improvement Through Economic Incentives by F. R. ANDERSON et al. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1977. pp. 194. £9.00 H/B; £3.25 P/B Pollution and Policy - A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution 1940-1975 by J. KRIER and E. URSIN. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 1978. pp. 401. £11.25 Air Pollution and Human Health by L. LAVE and E. SESKIN. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1978. pp. 368. £15.75 Environmental Assessment - Approaching Maturity by S. BENDIX and H. GRAHAM. Chichester: Ellis Horwood Ltd., distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1978. pp. 288. £12.60 Principles for Local Environmental Management by P. ROWE et al. Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger Publishing Co., distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1978. pp.272. £10.40

Urban Studies ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-353
Author(s):  
David Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Review Article ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Future

Books

Film Matters ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Jonathan T. Pearce ◽  
Jordan Michael-Victor Penrose ◽  
Kelly Rudolph ◽  
Brian C. Davis ◽  
Jenicka Roche
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public History ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Real ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Military Psychiatry

The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium, Paula Albuquerque (2018)Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 244pp., ISBN: 9789462985582 (hbk), 120.00, ISBN 9789048536733 (ebk)The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, Patricia R. Zimmermann and Scott MacDonald (2017)Indiana University Press, 360pp., ISBN: 9780253026248 (hbk), 25.00Governing Visions of the Real, Lars Weckbecker (2016)Intellect, 200pp., ISBN: 9781783204953 (hbk), 86.00Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977, Joshua Glick (2018)University of California Press, 277pp., ISBN: 9780520293717 (pbk), 34.95Traumatic Imprints: Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War, Noah Tsika (2018)University of California Press, 300pp., ISBN: 9780520297647 (pbk), 34.95

Lifting the Veil

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Scott Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
State Government ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
And Control ◽  
California Schools

The story of anti-communism in California schools is a tale well and often told. But few scholars have appreciated the important role played by private surveillance networks. This article examines how privately funded and run investigations shaped the state government’s pursuit of leftist educators. The previously-secret papers of Major General Ralph H. Van Deman, which were opened to researchers at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., only a few years ago, show that the general operated a private spy network out of San Diego and fed information to military, federal, and state government agencies. Moreover, he taught the state government’s chief anti-communist bureaucrat, Richard E. Combs, how to recruit informants and monitor and control subversives. The case of the suspicious death of one University of California, Los Angeles student – a student that the anti-communists claimed had been “scared to death” by the Reds – shows the extent of the collaboration between Combs and Van Deman. It further illustrates how they conspired to promote fear of communism, influence hiring and firing of University of California faculty, and punish those educators who did not support their project. Although it was rarely successful, Combs’ and Van Deman’s coordinated campaign reveals a story of public-private anticommunist collaboration in California that has been largely forgotten. Because Van Deman’s files are now finally open to researchers, Californians can gain a much more complete understanding of their state bureaucracy’s role in the Red Scare purges of California educators.

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