As multifaceted as anti-communism itself is its history, especially in a country like Switzerland, where communism played a minor role and the Soviet Union was only officially recognized after thirty years. This volume takes this fact into account with a variety of contributions on the following topics: origins of anti-communism and their significance, myths, actors, networks, and milieus of anti-communism, legal anti-communism, anti-communist images of communism, the anti-communism of the left, and anti-communism in relation to anti-Semitism, racism, and colonialism.