Before the Russian revolution, Russia had a Tsarist autocracy. Then, in 1917 the Bolshevik’s spread Karl Marx’s idea of communism successfully, throughout the region. During this time, the U.S. was fighting WW1 and began worrying about how communism might spread to America. The rapid immigration from eastern Europe (where communist and anarchist philosophies were prevalent) did not help their anxieties and instead were seen as a threat to the American way of life. As a result, this fear of communism reached its height during this time. To avoid any chance of communistic beliefs in the U.S., a wave of anticommunism swept the nation and resulted in a limitation of civil rights, palmer raids, the red scare (reds being a nickname used to identify
