After the Second World War, numerous movements of dissent and protest amongst workers or soldiers which had been kept in check by the profits of war developed into significant movements, such as the Coal or Rail strikes in 1946. Similarly, the war-time consensus on the United States and "Russia" as allies broke down. What studies of the personal experience of repression in this era—specifically the late 1940s—exist? What cultural and social histories of the climate of immediate post-war repression exist?
What was it like to live outside of the newly forming post-war consensus in the late 1940s in the United States?
Image: Fitzpatrick, Daniel Robert, 1891-1969. 1947: ?St. Louis Post Dispatch