Americans were frightened due to red Russia after Communists came to power in the Bolshevik Revolution, leading to a tiny Communist party in America; tensions grew due to many strikes in the Republic at war's end, many the result of high prices & frustrated union-organizing drives, upstanding Americans assumed problems were due to Bolsheviks; a general strike in Seattle in 1919, though with low demands & orderly methods, led to the mayor's call for federal troops to head off "the anarchy of Russia"

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