Nikitin, Vyacheslav. The Ultras in the USA. Moscow: Progress Publishers,
1981. 351 pages. Revised and translated from the 1971 edition.
NameBase includes four books on the U.S. far right during the 1950s
and 1960s -- "Danger on the Right" and "The Radical Right" by Benjamin
Epstein and Arnold Forster, "Power on the Right" by William Turner, and
"The Ultras in the USA" by Soviet historian V. Nikitin. Radical conservatism
during this period began with McCarthyism and included the John Birch
Society, the Minutemen, certain retired generals, and religious broadcasters
backed by various corporate millionaires. It continued through the 1964
Goldwater campaign and then the Young Americans for Freedom, which became
heavily endowed by the not-so-young and attempted to counter the left-wing
campus activism of the late 1960s.
With 900 footnotes citing U.S. sources, this volume was designed to
give the Soviet reader a broad familiarity with those forces in American
society that are contributing to and sustaining anti-communism. The bulk of
the book was written prior to 1971, although this 1981 translation is
slightly updated with recent revelations, particularly where it concerns
abuses of power by the FBI and CIA. Nikitin's research is extensive, and
both his writing and his translator's efforts seem to have exceeded the
usual standards of Progress Publishers.
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