Moses Finley's persecution by McCarthyism
MI Finley, a highly innovative 20th-century historian of the ancient world, was victim of McCarthyism and forced to leave the US to spend his academic career in Britain. After being denounced as a member of the Communist Party by Karl Wittfogel, he refused to answer questions to a McCarthy-era "loyalty" committee in the US Senate. He was subsequently fired from his academic position at Rutgers in 1953. It was a common story.
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Understanding Society · Moses Finley’s persecution by McCarthyismMI Finley (1912-1986) played a transformative role in the development of studies of the ancient world in the 1960s through the 1980s. He contributed to a reorientation of the field away from purely…