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The red scare was a widespread potential fear of communism or anarchism by a society or just a state. The Scare had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution. ... Bolshevism and the threat of a Communist-inspired revolution in the U.S. became the overriding explanation for challenges to the social order, even such largely unrelated events as incidents of interracial violence.
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