Anti-soviet campaigns in the USA during the great depression

The study deals with the anti-Soviet campaigns in the USA during the world economic crisis. They were initiated by new anti-religious attacks in the USSR in 1929-1930. But later they were viewed from the perspective of the economic expansion of the Soviet state in the capitalist economy. They were associated with propaganda thesis about the decline in living standards of Americans because of the so-called Soviet dumping. In fact, selling goods on world markets at low prices in the context of the crisis was common practice for all countries. Besides, Soviet goods were the minimum share of American imports. The fulfillment of the five-year plan was accepted as a threat to the capitalist world and the USA because of the new powerful competitor that exported raw materials under the state support of the production and trade and could ignore the interests of the competitors. State monopoly of the foreign trade was regarded as “unfair” competition. A number of Russian raw materials were restricted for export to the USA. But in general, the internal situation demanded that American authorities should solve their domestic affairs rather than counter the Soviet dumping. Therefore, these campaigns gradually disappeared.