Political oppression and persecution Books
Yale University Press Gulag Voices
Book SynopsisA collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. It includes the personal stories of figures such as renowned literary scholar Dmitri Likhachev; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate labourers; and, American citizen Alexander Dolgun.Trade Review“The power of Gulag Voices is not only to remind us of the horrors of the Soviet Union’s corrective labour institutions and to honour those who were incarcerated there. It is also to illuminate the human consequences that ensue when any state’s legal system fails to recognise the human rights of prisoners.”—Wendy Slater, Times Literary Supplement -- Wendey Slater * Times Literary Supplement *“[Gulag Voices] will inform a generation fortunate enough to be living in different times.”—Mary Dejevsky, The Independent -- Mary Dejevsky * The Independent *“Applebaum….is the ideal editor, providing introductions to each account, as well as a general explanation of the Gulag system. Her selection, each depicting a different aspect of Gulag life, leaves an unforgettable impression.”—Anthony Beevor, The Mail on Sunday -- Anthony Beevor * The Mail on Sunday *“…Applebaum has performed an invaluable service…. She has put together a marvellous collection of memoirs, stories and reminiscences written by surviving Gulag inmates ranging from the 1920’s when Lenin opened camps in the first days after the Revolution, to the late 1970’s, a time when most Westerners, as well as Russians, presumed that such places no longer existed.”—Victor Sebestyen, The Spectator -- Victor Sebestyen * The Spectator *“A shocking mosaic of misery, of courage and of just about unimaginable resilience – this anthology brings together first-hand accounts of what it took men and women to survive. A disturbing and yet, in its way, inspiring book.” Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman, 19th March 2011 -- Michael Kerrigan * The Scotsman *"A book that weaves together chilling official history and personal stories of suffering and survival."—Contemporary Review * Contemporary Review *"Anne Applebaum, who had plumbed the archives to great effect in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gulag: A History (2003), persuasively argues in the introduction to Gulag Voices that the profoundly personal perspective of Gulag memoirists . . . mean[s] that their works—valuable as both 'literature and testimony'—serve a 'moral and didactic' purpose as well as an historical one. . . . Works such as Gulag Voices encourage historical understanding and moral catharsis and should be welcomed by Russians and Westerners alike."—Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion -- Daniel J. Mahoney * The New Criterion *"[T]he perfect companion for college courses on Soviet history. . . . This book, along with several similar books more or less simultaneously published, should be read widely."—Timothy J. Colton, Journal of Cold War Studies -- Timothy J. Colton * Journal of Cold War Studies *"'A journey into an incredibly rich and sharp recollection of feelings and emotions… The memoirs of these authors take the reader far beyond the duty of memory towards the dead, into the depths of the human heart where, as Solzhenitsyn disclosed when he wrote The Gulag Archipelago, 'the line separating good and evil passes.'" The Global Journal, June 2012 * The Global Journal *
£12.34
Little, Brown & Company Long Walk to Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson
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£20.69
Doubleday Canada The Skin Were In
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a bracing, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers.
£17.84
Random House Canada The Skin Were In
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£13.49
The University of Michigan Press Understanding Torture
Book SynopsisLegal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violenceTrade Review"A beautifully crafted, convincingly argued book that does not shy away from addressing the legal and ethical complexities of torture in the modern world. In a field that all too often produces simple or superficial responses to what has become an increasingly challenging issue, Understanding Torture stands out as a sophisticated and intellectually responsible work." - Ruth Miller, University of Massachusetts, Boston"
£28.45
University of California Press Protectors of Privilege Red Squads and Police
Book SynopsisA detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an examination of undercover work in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadephia, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement.
£25.50
University of California Press The FiftyYear Rebellion How the US Political
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kurashige sees in Detroit a microcosm of the political ills which he believes afflict the United States more broadly. Starting with the rioting of 1967, he presents a history of the policies that he believes have disen- franchised, impoverished and repressed Detroit’s black and working-class citizens, as well as their acts of resistance." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Kurashige’s purpose is advocacy as much as exposition, but he presents compelling details on what led up to, and what followed, Detroit’s bankruptcy,including the forms of state administration that were imposed on the city, a story barely covered by the national press." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction 1. 1967 2. The Rise of the Counter-Revolution 3. The System Is Bankrupt 4. Race to the Bottom 5. Government for the 1 Percent 6. From Rebellion to Revolution Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£14.39
University of California Press Cultural Encounters
Book SynopsisMore than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the Inquisition by means of diverse strategieswhether Christianized Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesús M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf, Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Noemí Quezada, María Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
£28.90
University of California Press Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of
Book SynopsisStephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The kingdom of Valencia occupies a uniquely important place in the history of the Spanish Inquisition because of its large Muslim and Jewish populations and because it was a Catalan kingdom, more or less occupied by the despised Castilians who introduced the Inquisition. Haliczer underscores the intensely regional nature of the Valencian tribunal. He shows how the prosecution of religious deviants, the recruitment and professional activity of Inquisitors and officials, and the relations between the Inquisition and the majority Old Christian population all clearly reflect the place and the society.A great series of pogroms swept over Spain during the summer of 1391. Jewish communities were attacked and the Jews either massacred or forced to convert. More than ninety percent of the victims of the Valencian Inquisition a century later were descendants of those who chose conversion, the conversos. Haliczer argues convincingly against those who see all the conversos as secret Jews. He finds, on the contrary, that a wide range of religious beliefs and practices existed among them and that some were even able to assimilate into Old Christian society by becoming familiares of the Inquisition itself. Nevertheless, it was controversy over the sincerity of the converted which spawned the first proposals for the establishment of a Spanish national Inquisition.That very same controversy, persisting in the writings of history, may be resolved by Haliczer's stimulating discoveries. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia is a major contribution to the lively field of Inquisition studies, combining institutional history of the tribunal with socioreligious history of the kingdom. The many case histories included in the narrative give both Valencian society and the Inquisition very human faces. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
£35.70
Batya Bricker Book Projects Mensches in the Trenches
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Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Death Flight Apartheids Secret Doctrine of
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Tafelberg Publishers Ltd A Long Letter to My Daughter
Book SynopsisA long letter to my daughter is the youth memoir of Marita van der Vyver, one of the most loved Afrikaans authors. It traces the writer's early years in apartheid South Africa, but it is also a love letter to a daughter and a language and a country. With a mother who desperately tries to make sense of it all.
£16.19
Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Now You Know How Mapetla Died
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Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Cleaners Boy
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Harvard University Press Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea
Book SynopsisFor South Koreans, the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and deepening political oppression. Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of this dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country’s long history of militarization, personified in South Korea’s paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.Trade ReviewA milestone in the literature of modern East Asia. Through close and careful examination, Eckert shows that Korean military leaders, preeminently Park Chung Hee, learned how warfare and industrial development could go hand-in-hand in the hothouse of 1930s Manchuria. They later used that model in the South to accomplish one of the most rapid developmental surges in world history. This is an enormous contribution to our understanding of modern Korea and East Asia. -- Bruce Cumings, author of Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern HistoryProdigiously researched and fluently written, Eckert’s book throws fascinating light on how Imperial Japan’s harsh colonial rule in Korea and Manchuria bequeathed a legacy of both authoritarianism and economic transformation to South Korea. This is a truly original contribution to our understanding of Japan’s as well as Korea’s modern history. -- John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIThis is a profound and important work, the culmination of decades of research and thought by a leader in the field. Timely, deeply researched, and engagingly written, this book occupies a unique place in the scholarship on modern Korea, and addresses a topic whose impact extends well beyond Korean and East Asian history. -- Charles K. Armstrong, author of Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992Eckert, one of our most distinguished historians of Korea, comprehensively details the revealing background to how Park Chung Hee acquired the dedicated spirit to lead Korea’s modernization: spiritual training in Japanese military academies. -- Ezra F. Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaA masterly treatment of the pre-1945 origins of militarism that would later become manifest in the programs, leadership style, development philosophy, and political tactics of the Park Chung Hee era. This crucial work will have an enormous impact on the debates surrounding a number of issues in the postwar history of Korea. -- Michael E. Robinson, author of Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short HistoryThis pathbreaking book contributes to both modern Korean history and Japanese colonial history by exploring the instruction that Park Chung-hee (who went on to lead South Korea from 1961 to 1979) and others of his generation received when they were officer trainees in the Japanese colonial army in the 1940s…The book is not a biography, but it uses Park’s early career as a window onto Japanese militarism, which shaped the ethos of the men who later guided the first decades of an independent South Korea. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *Less a standard biography than an analysis, through the figure of Park Chung Hee, of Korea’s authoritarian past…The book is a work of historical ethnography demonstrating how Japan’s militarist ideas helped form modern Korea…Although South Korea has exorcised Park’s military legacy, this biography uncovers strands of modern identity that continue to bedevil the country. -- Robert S. Boynton * Bookforum *Eckert meticulously examines how Japan’s military occupation of Korea (1910–45) and Manchuria (1931–45) shaped the future contours of Korean politics and society to the detriment of individual rights and democracy…Eckert has delivered a robust analysis of the consequences of continuous conflict on the Korean peninsula and the resulting permeation of military values into various echelons of society. By interpreting the history of twentieth-century South Korea as a product of long-term geopolitical factors in both East Asia and the wider world, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea represents a salient paradigmatic shift in the study of the region and thus richly deserves the highest plaudits from the scholarly community. -- Jeff Roquen * LSE Review of Books *
£30.56
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Israeli Palestinians
Book SynopsisOne of the most crucial issues to affect national policy in the state of Israel is that of relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens. This edited collection offers a comprehensive analysis of the most significant factors to have contributed to current conditions.Table of ContentsAfter October 2000: Israeli Arab Members of the 15th Knesset - Between Israeli Citizenship and their Palestinian National Identity Alexander Bligh. Between Nationalism and Liberalism - The Political Thought of Azmi Bisharah Abigail Fraswer and Avi Shabat. Social Issues: Fertility Transition in the Middle East - The Case of the Israeli Arabs Onn Winckler. Social and Educational Welfare Policy in the Arab Sector in Israel Khawla Abu Baker. A Binational Society - The Jewish-Arab Cleavage and Tolerance Education in the State of Israel Dan Soen. History and Nationalism: The Arabs in Haifa - From Majority to Minority, Processes of Change (1870-1948) Mahmoud Yazbak. Jewish Settlement of Former Arab Towns and their Incorporation into the Israeli Urban System (1948-1950) Arnon Golan. Ethnicity or Nationalism? Comparing the "Nakba" Narrative among Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Hillel Frisch. The Media and the Israeli Arab Citizens: The Israeli Newspapers' Coverage of the Israeli Arabs during the "Intifada" Ilan Asya. The Arab Citizens of the State of Israel - The Arab Media in Perspective Haim Koren. Political Standing in a Jewish State - Present and Future: Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel - Is There a Basis for a Unified Civic Identity? Ilana Kaufman. The Collective Identity of the Arabs in Israel in an Era of Peace Muhammad Amara. The Status of the Palestinians in Israel in an Era of Peace - Part of the Problem but not Part of the Solution As'ad Ghanem and Sarah Ozacky-Lazar. The Final Settlement of the Palestinian Issue and the Position of the Israeli Arab Leadership Alexander Bligh
£128.25
Manchester University Press Racism and Social Change in the Republic of
Book SynopsisIrish society has changed with the emergence of immigrant communities of black and ethnic minorities. This text argues that Ireland was never immune from racist ideologies, and focuses on the relationship between ideological forms of racism and its consequences upon black and ethnic minorities.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Racism in Ireland3. Nation-building and exclusion4. Ireland and the Holocaust5. Refugees and asylum seekers6. The politics of Traveller exclusion7. The legacy of anti-Traveller racism8. Multiculturalism in Ireland
£18.99
Manchester University Press Global Justice Networks Geographies of
Book SynopsisProvides a critical investigation of the ‘global justice movement’. Drawing upon three case studies – a peasant farmers’ network, a trade union network, and the social forum process – the authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of these networks.Table of ContentsList of tablesAcknowledgements1. Neoliberalism and its discontents 2. Networks, global civil society and global justice networks3. Global justice networks: operational logics and strategies4. Global justice networks: geographical dynamics and convergence spaces5. People’s Global Action (Asia): peasant solidarity as horizontal networking?6. International Federation for Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers: labour internationalism as vertical networking?7. Social Forums as convergence spaces8. Geographies of transnational solidarityEndnotesReferencesIndex
£76.50
Manchester University Press Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in the region.Trade ReviewNorman Naimark's book seeks to demonstrate that 'Stalin's mass killings of the 1930s should be classified as "genocide" (1). Naimark recognizes the difficulties in arguing that case, given that in the USSR there was no one, single, act of genocide, but rather 'a series of interrelated attacks on "class enemies" and "enemies of the people", and he argues that this period, when millions of people were repressed in the USSR, should be regarded as 'an important chapter in the history of genocide' (2), and that the governmental system created at that time in the USSR should be seen as a genocidal regime. Book Reviews 187 While international law understands genocide to mean the annihilation of individual groups of the population according to racial, national, ethnic or religious criteria, or the deliberate creation of conditions of life calculated to destroy a group wholly or in part, Naimark seeks to broaden the concept. In his definition, genocide is 'systematic mass murder intentionally perpetrated by the political elite of a state against a targeted group within the borders of or outside the state that should distinguish genocide from other forms of mass killing, like pogroms, massacres, and terrorist bombing' (4). He argues his case in chapters dealing with Stalin himself, de-kulakization, the Ukrainian famine ('Holodomor'), the deportation of whole nationalities and the 'Great Terror' of the 1930s. The conclusions he draws are not particularly original, and the whole work is more of a political rather than a historical investigation. It has no separate discussion of historiography and sources, which leaves an impression that the author has ignored evidence which does not fit the picture he is trying to present. Naimark argues that Stalin did not start with genocidal intent, but the pressure of circumstances pushed him that way. One reason for that might be that Stalin, who often declared himself to be Lenin's pupil, enthusiastically continued with Lenin's punitive policies. Naimark's definition of 'genocide' could equally well be applied to the Soviet decree abolishing the social estates of Tsarist Russia (10/23 November 1917) and the persecution of people of noble origin, or to the process of de-Cossackization in 1919-20 which put an end to the Cossacks as a separate military caste. Moreover, when the Cheka's M. Latsis declared in 1918 that 'we are not struggling against individuals, we are destroying the bourgeoisie as a class', this could also count as an incitement to genocide. The weaknesses of Naimark's formulation become apparent when it is tested against Soviet realities, even though its humanistic intent should be welcomed. There is a difference between the destruction of six million Jews by the Nazi regime - a clear case of genocide - and what happened in the USSR. To be sure, Soviet Jews suffered persecution, many Soviet nationalities were deported wholesale, and de-kulakization was a tragedy for millions of peasants, but in the USSR they were not put into gas chambers, they were sent to special settlements, in sparsely-populated areas of the country, with restrictions on their freedom of movement. The term 'Great Terror', denoting the repression in Russia in the 1930s, became popular following the publication of Robert Conquest's eponymous book 1974. However, one could argue that there was just one ongoing state terror against Soviet citizens, inaugurated by the government decrees of 18 February 1918, which brought in extrajudicial execution, and of 5 September 1918, on the Red Terror. By 1922, Red and White terror had already claimed 1.5 million victims. Stalin merely continued and perfected Lenin's repressive policies. While arguing that the 'Great Terror' had 'genocidal qualities' (1). Naimark recognizes the difficulties in arguing that case, given that in the USSR there was no one, single, act of genocide, but rather 'a series of interrelated attacks on "class enemies" and "enemies of the people", and he argues that this period, when millions of people were repressed in the USSR, should be regarded as 'an important chapter in the history of genocide' (2), and that the governmental system created at that time in the USSR should be seen as a genocidal regime. Book Reviews 187 While international law understands genocide to mean the annihilation of individual groups of the population according to racial, national, ethnic or religious criteria, or the deliberate creation of conditions of life calculated to destroy a group wholly or in part, Naimark seeks to broaden the concept. In his definition, genocide is 'systematic mass murder intentionally perpetrated by the political elite of a state against a targeted group within the borders of or outside the state that should distinguish genocide from other forms of mass killing, like pogroms, massacres, and terrorist bombing' (4). He argues his case in chapters dealing with Stalin himself, de-kulakization, the Ukrainian famine ('Holodomor'), the deportation of whole nationalities and the 'Great Terror' of the 1930s. The conclusions he draws are not particularly original, and the whole work is more of a political rather than a historical investigation. It has no separate discussion of historiography and sources, which leaves an impression that the author has ignored evidence which does not fit the picture he is trying to present. Naimark argues that Stalin did not start with genocidal intent, but the pressure of circumstances pushed him that way. One reason for that might be that Stalin, who often declared himself to be Lenin's pupil, enthusiastically continued with Lenin's punitive policies. Naimark's definition of 'genocide' could equally well be applied to the Soviet decree abolishing the social estates of Tsarist Russia (10/23 November 1917) and the persecution of people of noble origin, or to the process of de-Cossackization in 1919-20 which put an end to the Cossacks as a separate military caste. Moreover, when the Cheka's M. Latsis declared in 1918 that 'we are not struggling against individuals, we are destroying the bourgeoisie as a class', this could also count as an incitement to genocide. The weaknesses of Naimark's formulation become apparent when it is tested against Soviet realities, even though its humanistic intent should be welcomed. There is a difference between the destruction of six million Jews by the Nazi regime - a clear case of genocide - and what happened in the USSR. To be sure, Soviet Jews suffered persecution, many Soviet nationalities were deported wholesale, and de-kulakization was a tragedy for millions of peasants, but in the USSR they were not put into gas chambers, they were sent to special settlements, in sparsely-populated areas of the country, with restrictions on their freedom of movement. The term 'Great Terror', denoting the repression in Russia in the 1930s, became popular following the publication of Robert Conquest's eponymous book 1974. However, one could argue that there was just one ongoing state terror against Soviet citizens, inaugurated by the government decrees of 18 February 1918, which brought in extrajudicial execution, and of 5 September 1918, on the Red Terror. By 1922, Red and White terror had already claimed 1.5 million victims. Stalin merely continued and perfected Lenin's repressive policies. While arguing that the 'Great Terror' had 'genocidal qualities', Naimark recognizes that it cannot be directly described as genocide (136). As he points out, the terror intensified after the end of July 1937, when NKVD chief Ezhov and the CPSU approved Decree No. 00447. On the basis of that decree, former kulaks, 188 European History Quarterly 42(1) criminals, former activists in other parties, opponents of Bolshevism, members of religious communities, former Tsarist civil servants and Cossacks were shot or imprisoned. Between August 1937 and November 1938 around 800,000 people were sentenced, approximately half of them to death, the rest to long sentences in prisons and corrective labour camps. The sentences were passed by extra-judicial bodies: three- and two-man panels, special conferences and the like. But while this was a crime against hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens, it is hard to discern truly 'genocidal qualities' within it. During the Soviet period, the years 1921-22, 1932-33 and 1946-47 were years of famine, but, thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian diaspora, it was the famine of the early 1930s which got the name 'Holodomor'. This famine, Naimark argues, was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people (71-5). In 1993 an Association of Researchers into the Famine-Genocide of 1932-33 was formed in Ukraine, so Naimark is not the first to allege this. But there is no consensus on this question. At a conference of Russian and Ukrainian historians in May 2007 on the 1932-33 famine, there was just one question on which the historians could not agree - was the famine in the Ukraine an act of genocide against the Ukrainians? The Russian historians were categorically opposed to such a characterization, and the final resolution of the meeting recommended that the question be considered 'in a strictly scientific, rather than a journalistic and speculative way'. Naimark uncritically adopts the standpoint of Ukrainian politicians and certain historians, arguing that although Stalin did not kill or deport the Ukrainians he 'wanted to destroy them as a hostile nation' (78-9). He disregards alternative perspectives from Russian historians, and pays no attention to the polemic between V. P. Danilov and Robert Conquest, or to V. V. Kondrashin's study on the famine of 1932-33, which showed that it affected an area far beyond Ukraine. Unfortunately, Naimark's book is excessively politicized, and its contentions are not adequately demonstrated. Nonetheless, his attempt to widen the concept of 'genocide' will certainly stimulate further study. Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe's collection, Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe stands in stark contrast to Naimark's book. It is much more academic and objective in its arguments. Its ten chapters contain detailed accounts of the Stalinist terror in the Baltic states (Aldis Purs), Soviet Moldavia (Igor Cascu), Eastern Germany (Matthew Stibbe), Poland (Lukasz Kamin' ski), Czechoslovakia (Kevin McDermott), Hungary (La' szlo' Borhi), Romania (Dennis Deletant), Yugoslavia (Jerca Vodus ek Staric ), Bulgaria (Jordan Baev) and Albania (Robert C. Austin). The editors' (1). Naimark recognizes the difficulties in arguing that case, given that in the USSR there was no one, single, act of genocide, but rather 'a series of interrelated attacks on "class enemies" and "enemies of the people", and he argues that this period, when millions of people were repressed in the USSR, should be regarded as 'an important chapter in the history of genocide' (2), and that the governmental system created at that time in the USSR should be seen as a genocidal regime. Book Reviews 187 While international law understands genocide to mean the annihilation of individual groups of the population according to racial, national, ethnic or religious criteria, or the deliberate creation of conditions of life calculated to destroy a group wholly or in part, Naimark seeks to broaden the concept. In his definition, genocide is 'systematic mass murder intentionally perpetrated by the political elite of a state against a targeted group within the borders of or outside the state that should distinguish genocide from other forms of mass killing, like pogroms, massacres, and terrorist bombing' (4). He argues his case in chapters dealing with Stalin himself, de-kulakization, the Ukrainian famine ('Holodomor'), the deportation of whole nationalities and the 'Great Terror' of the 1930s. The conclusions he draws are not particularly original, and the whole work is more of a political rather than a historical investigation. It has no separate discussion of historiography and sources, which leaves an impression that the author has ignored evidence which does not fit the picture he is trying to present. Naimark argues that Stalin did not start with genocidal intent, but the pressure of circumstances pushed him that way. One reason for that might be that Stalin, who often declared himself to be Lenin's pupil, enthusiastically continued with Lenin's punitive policies. Naimark's definition of 'genocide' could equally well be applied to the Soviet decree abolishing the social estates of Tsarist Russia (10/23 November 1917) and the persecution of people of noble origin, or to the process of de-Cossackization in 1919-20 which put an end to the Cossacks as a separate military caste. Moreover, when the Cheka's M. Latsis declared in 1918 that 'we are not struggling against individuals, we are destroying the bourgeoisie as a class', this could also count as an incitement to genocide. The weaknesses of Naimark's formulation become apparent when it is tested against Soviet realities, even though its humanistic intent should be welcomed. There is a difference between the destruction of six million Jews by the Nazi regime - a clear case of genocide - and what happened in the USSR. To be sure, Soviet Jews suffered persecution, many Soviet nationalities were deported wholesale, and de-kulakization was a tragedy for millions of peasants, but in the USSR they were not put into gas chambers, they were sent to special settlements, in sparsely-populated areas of the country, with restrictions on their freedom of movement. The term 'Great Terror', denoting the repression in Russia in the 1930s, became popular following the publication of Robert Conquest's eponymous book 1974. However, one could argue that there was just one ongoing state terror against Soviet citizens, inaugurated by the government decrees of 18 February 1918, which brought in extrajudicial execution, and of 5 September 1918, on the Red Terror. By 1922, Red and White terror had already claimed 1.5 million victims. Stalin merely continued and perfected Lenin's repressive policies. While arguing that the 'Great Terror' had 'genocidal qualities', Naimark recognizes that it cannot be directly described as genocide (136). As he points out, the terror intensified after the end of July 1937, when NKVD chief Ezhov and the CPSU approved Decree No. 00447. On the basis of that decree, former kulaks, 188 European History Quarterly 42(1) criminals, former activists in other parties, opponents of Bolshevism, members of religious communities, former Tsarist civil servants and Cossacks were shot or imprisoned. Between August 1937 and November 1938 around 800,000 people were sentenced, approximately half of them to death, the rest to long sentences in prisons and corrective labour camps. The sentences were passed by extra-judicial bodies: three- and two-man panels, special conferences and the like. But while this was a crime against hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens, it is hard to discern truly 'genocidal qualities' within it. During the Soviet period, the years 1921-22, 1932-33 and 1946-47 were years of famine, but, thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian diaspora, it was the famine of the early 1930s which got the name 'Holodomor'. This famine, Naimark argues, was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people (71-5). In 1993 an Association of Researchers into the Famine-Genocide of 1932-33 was formed in Ukraine, so Naimark is not the first to allege this. But there is no consensus on this question. At a conference of Russian and Ukrainian historians in May 2007 on the 1932-33 famine, there was just one question on which the historians could not agree - was the famine in the Ukraine an act of genocide against the Ukrainians? The Russian historians were categorically opposed to such a characterization, and the final resolution of the meeting recommended that the question be considered 'in a strictly scientific, rather than a journalistic and speculative way'. Naimark uncritically adopts the standpoint of Ukrainian politicians and certain historians, arguing that although Stalin did not kill or deport the Ukrainians he 'wanted to destroy them as a hostile nation' (78-9). He disregards alternative perspectives from Russian historians, and pays no attention to the polemic between V. P. Danilov and Robert Conquest, or to V. V. Kondrashin's study on the famine of 1932-33, which showed that it affected an area far beyond Ukraine. Unfortunately, Naimark's book is excessively politicized, and its contentions are not adequately demonstrated. Nonetheless, his attempt to widen the concept of 'genocide' will certainly stimulate further study. Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe's collection, Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe stands in stark contrast to Naimark's book. It is much more academic and objective in its arguments. Its ten chapters contain detailed accounts of the Stalinist terror in the Baltic states (Aldis Purs), Soviet Moldavia (Igor Cascu), Eastern Germany (Matthew Stibbe), Poland (Lukasz Kamin' ski), Czechoslovakia (Kevin McDermott), Hungary (La' szlo' Borhi), Romania (Dennis Deletant), Yugoslavia (Jerca Vodus ek Staric ), Bulgaria (Jordan Baev) and Albania (Robert C. Austin). The editors' introduction deals with different perspectives and interpretations of the subject. The authors examine the realities of Stalinist terror in the countries concerned, where political show trials of prominent figures were virtually carbon copies of the Soviet trials of the 1930s. They draw attention to the specific features of the repression and persecution of dissidents. The introduction notes that the authors in the volume do not have a single view as to the motives for the terror in the countries they are discussing. Some consider that external factors (the Soviet occupation, or Book Reviews 189 the presence of Soviet advisors) were the main reasons for the repression; others attribute it to the desire of the new communist authorities to be rid of possible opponents and establish their own authoritarian power, while yet others blame it on a mixture of internal and external factors. Purs, for example, remarks that in the Baltic states, 'terror was "Soviet in form, local in content" (5). The introduction argues that the basic causes of these terroristic actions were Stalin's policies themselves, and the ceaseless attempts by the security organs under Soviet tutelage to find 'enemies'. The 'enemies' identified by the new rulers followed Soviet archetypes: kulaks, private entrepreneurs, minsters of religion, social-democrats, former army officers and civil servants, etc. (5-6). The individual chapters contain data on the numbers of victims of the terror, and the forms it took (prison, execution, making examples of people, and so on). This collection is both interesting and informative. It raises many questions which need to be studied further, such as a comparative analysis of the Soviet and Nazi occupations. Moldavia and the Baltic states experienced Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, then Nazi occupation under their fascist-leaning leaders, followed by a second Soviet occupation after 1944. In this way, they were repressed three times. Although Yugoslavia broke away from Soviet influence in 1948, and Stalin even tried to have Tito liquidated, the communist terror nevertheless continued in Yugoslavia. And Poland, whose leadership Stalin continually mistrusted, could suddenly become 'the freest cell in the socialist camp', as the Soviet poet Bulat Okudzhava neatly put it. The articles in this collection provide a solid foundation for further investigation into these questions. -- Alter Litvin and Alla Sal'nikova. European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of abbreviations and glossary of termsList of archives and archival abbreviationsNotes on contributors1. Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: Problems, perspectives and interpretations 2. Soviet in form, local in content: Elite repression and mass terror in the Baltic States, 1940-533. Stalinist terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940-534. East Germany, 1945-53: Stalinist repression and internal Party purges 5. Stalinism in Poland, 1944-566. Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia: Origins, processes, responses7. Stalinist terror in Hungary, 1945-568. Political purges and mass repression in Romania, 1948-559. Stalinist and anti-Stalinist repression in Yugoslavia, 1944-5310. Stalinist terror in Bulgaria, 1944-5611. Purge and counter-purge in Stalinist Albania, 1944¬-56List of major works citedIndex
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Manchester University Press Understanding Immigration in Ireland Ireland in a
Book SynopsisA sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish societyTable of Contents1 Introduction2 The History and theory of migration3 The State of migration and the bureaucratic field4 State borders and boundaries5 The migrant as asylum seeker6 The Direct provision regime7 The juridical field and immigration in Ireland8 Citizenship in Ireland9 Constructing and stratifying the labour supply10 The migrant as worker11 Racism and Integration in Ireland12 Conclusion
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Manchester University Press Understanding Immigration in Ireland
Book SynopsisA sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction2 The History and theory of migration3 The State of migration and the bureaucratic field4 State borders and boundaries5 The migrant as asylum seeker6 The Direct provision regime7 The juridical field and immigration in Ireland8 Citizenship in Ireland9 Constructing and stratifying the labour supply10 The migrant as worker11 Racism and Integration in Ireland12 Conclusion
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Manchester University Press Comemory and Melancholia Israelis Memorialising
Book SynopsisExplores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society in relation to the Palestinian Nakba.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Living in the shadow2. Memory sites, postmemory, co-memory3. Memory and melancholia4. The fall of Haifa: Telling autoethnographic stories5. The road to Damascus6. Historicising the Nakba: Contested Nakba narratives as an ongoing process7. Zochrot: Nakba co-memory as performance8. Conclusion: Melancholia, Nakba co-memory and the politics of returnReferences
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Manchester University Press Everyday Life After the Irish Conflict The Impact
Book SynopsisThe first book to address the specific topic of the intersection the processes of conflict transformation devolution and with daily life in Northern Ireland in a rigorous and systematic fashion.Trade Review"This comprehensive set of essays brings a new and much-needed angle to the social and political literature on Northern Ireland."(Jennifer Thomas, Political Studies Review, May 2014 -- .Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction and context1 Introduction: The politics of everyday life Cillian McGrattan and Elizabeth Meehan2 The rocky road from enmity Duncan MorrowPart 2 Space, place and human relations in Northern Ireland3 Routine divisions: segregation and daily life in Northern Ireland Neil Jarman and John Bell4 Promoting good relations: the role of schools in Northern Ireland Joanne Hughes and Caitlin Donnelly5 Everyday evangelicals: life in a religious subculture after the Agreement Gladys Ganiel and Claire Mitchell6 ‘Sometimes it would be nice to be a man’: negotiating gender identities after the Good Friday Agreement. Theresa O’Keefe7 Women’s political participation Bronagh HindsPart 3 Cross-border dimensions of everyday economic and social life8 The impact of devolution on everyday life, 1999-2010: the case of cross-border commerce Aidan Gough and Eoin Magennis9 A common floor of rights protection? The Belfast Agreement, ‘equivalence of rights’ and the North-South dimension Colm O’Cinneide10 Realising the potential for cross border service provision: lessons from the health sector Brian Ó Caoindealbhain and Patricia ClarkePart 4 Conclusion; a comparative perspective on inclusion in everyday political life11 A ‘new politics’ of participation? Elizabeth Meehan and Fiona Mackay
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Manchester University Press Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in the region. -- .Trade Review"The collected volume is a timely publication that fills in a significant gap in the English-language historiography of the establishment of Stalinist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe after World War Two. It may come as a surprise that this book is actually the first serious scholarly attempt to address the topic of Stalinist repressions from a comparative perspective, bringing together the findings of historians from the respective countries since the archival revolutions of the early 1990s."(Balázs Apor: Slavonic and East European Review,vol. 92, no. 1, January 2014) -- .Table of ContentsList of abbreviations and glossary of termsList of archives and archival abbreviationsNotes on contributors1. Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: Problems, perspectives and interpretations - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe2. Soviet in form, local in content: Elite repression and mass terror in the Baltic States, 1940–53 - Aldis Purs3. Stalinist terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940–53 - Igor Casu4. East Germany, 1945–53: Stalinist repression and internal Party purges - Matthew Stibbe5. Stalinism in Poland, 1944–56 - Lukasz Kaminski6. Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia: Origins, processes, responses - Kevin McDermott7. Stalinist terror in Hungary, 1945-56 - László Borhi8. Political purges and mass repression in Romania, 1948–55 - Dennis Deletant9. Stalinist and anti-Stalinist repression in Yugoslavia, 1944–53 - Jerca Vodušek Staric10. Stalinist terror in Bulgaria, 1944–56 - Jordan Baev11. Purge and counter-purge in Stalinist Albania, 1944–56 - Robert C. AustinList of major works citedIndex
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Manchester University Press Comemory and melancholia Israelis Memorialising
Book SynopsisExplores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society in relation to the Palestinian Nakba.Table of Contents1. Introduction: living in the shadow2. Memory sites, postmemory, co-memory3. Memory and melancholia4. The fall of Haifa: telling autoethnographic stories5. The road to Damascus6. Historicising the Nakba: contested Nakba narratives as an ongoing process7. Zochrot: Nakba co-memory as performance8. Conclusion: melancholia, Nakba co-memory and the politics of returnReferencesIndex
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Pluto Press Refugees in Our Own Land Chronicles From a
Book SynopsisA look into the hearts and minds of Palestinian refugeesTrade Review'A unique insight into women's everyday life during the Al Aqsa Intifada - anger, sorrow, frustration fly off every page. This book is a slice of living history which will now never be forgotten' -- Victoria Brittain'Lays bare the whole spectrum of human emotion that she, her neighbours and friends undergo as the relentless series of events unfolds. Visceral fear of Israeli shelling and terror of settler attacks is interlaced with deep pain at the loss of yet another young life. Exhaustion, hopelessness, and bitterness are the constants' -- Journal of Palestine Studies'This riveting first-hand account of life in the Palestinian refugee camps should be required reading for anyone interested in a resolution of the wrenching conflict between Palestine and Israel' -- Elizabeth Fernea, University of Texas at Austin'With great warmth, anger, admiration and depression she pens the life of a camp through history and politics' -- Red PepperTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE 1. Ordinary Days in Dheisheh (2000) PART TWO 2. Farewell Washington (1988) 3. Welcome to Dheisheh (1990) 4. Urging on the Scuds (1991) 5. Diary of a Blockade (1993) 6. Fatima (1994) 7. Dheisheh will Never Fall Again (1995) 8. Where Is Peace? (1996) 9. When Time Stood Still (1996) 10. The French connection (1997) 11. The Glory of the Intifada (1997) 12. Where Do We Belong? (1997) 13. Remembering Our Dead (1997) 14. Where did Santa Go? (1998) 15. Male Vs. Female honor (1998) 16. Celebrating Independence (1998) 17. From Dheisheh to Jerusalem (1998) 18. Making it in a Man’s World (1998) 19. Diving with a Splash (1998) 20. Life’s four Seasons (1998) 21. Checkpoint Jerusalem (1999) 22. The Pope in Our Midst (2000)
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Pluto Press American Torture From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib
Book SynopsisExposes the secret history of US torture at home and abroad.Trade Review'A hard-hitting survey revealing how torture became a standard practice in the War on Terror' -- Internet BookwatchTable of ContentsList of Acronyms In Their Own Words 1. A Climate of Fear 2. Stress Inoculation 3. Codifying Cruelty 4. The Phoenix Factor 5. In America’s Backyard 6. The Human Cost 7. Alive and Legal 8. The Gloves Come Off, Part I 9. Guantánamo 10. The Gloves Come Off, Part II The Dual State Appendix I: Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983 Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press The Political Economy of Israels Occupation
Book SynopsisA careful and illuminating analysis of the economic dimensions of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Invaluable for students, journalists and activists.Trade Review'Shir Hever has emerged as one of the most incisive analysts of the critical Israeli Left' -- Jeff Halper, Director, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Part I Introduction 1. Background on the Palestinian Economy Part II: Selected Topics in the Economy of the Occupation 2. International Aid 3. Inflation in the OPT 4. Economic Cost of the Occupation to Israel 5. Trends in the Israeli Economy 6. Case Study: The Wall in Jerusalem Part III: Implications of the Economy of the Occupation 7. Beyond Exploitation Chapter 8 – Theoretical Analysis and Binationalism Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press The Political Economy of Israels Occupation
Book SynopsisA careful and illuminating analysis of the economic dimensions of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Invaluable for students, journalists and activists.Trade Review'Shir Hever has emerged as one of the most incisive analysts of the critical Israeli Left' -- Jeff Halper, Director, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Part I Introduction 1. Background on the Palestinian Economy Part II: Selected Topics in the Economy of the Occupation 2. International Aid 3. Inflation in the OPT 4. Economic Cost of the Occupation to Israel 5. Trends in the Israeli Economy 6. Case Study: The Wall in Jerusalem Part III: Implications of the Economy of the Occupation 7. Beyond Exploitation Chapter 8 – Theoretical Analysis and Binationalism Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press My Life in the PLO
Book SynopsisThe inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993.Trade Review'In this refreshingly unconventional chronicle of a half-century of Palestinian nationalism, tough-minded Shafiq al-Hout never flinches from talking truth to power' -- Jonathan Randal, retired Washington Post CorrespondentTable of ContentsList of Acronyms Preface 1. Jaffa, My City 2. From Homeland to Exile 3. From Journalism to Politics 4. The Birth of the Palestine Liberation Organisation 5. The Factions Gain Control over the PLO 6. Jordanian-Palestinian Relations 7. Nasser As I Knew Him 8. Fratricidal Wars 9. The PLO at the United Nations 10. Palestine, Around the Globe 11. The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon 12. The Sabra and Shatila Massacre 13. After the Departure 14. The Mysterious Triangle 15. The Second Exodus From Lebanon 16. The Session that changed the Path 17. The Intifada of Stones 18. Return to the Executive Committee 19. No Final Solution without a Single Democratic Palestine 20. The Night of Abu Ammar’s Plane Crash 21. Resigning in Protest over the Oslo Agreement 22. After the Resignation 23. My Heart Rebels 24. Coming out of a Dark Abyss Appendix: Photographs? Index
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Pluto Press Economic Liberalization and Political Violence
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Pluto Press Unsilencing Gaza
Book SynopsisPalestinians refuse to be silenced and their struggle must not be ignoredTrade Review'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestinian scholar' -- Edward W. Said'Roy is the leading researcher and most widely respected academic authority on Gaza today' -- Bruce Bennett Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University'A compelling study that continues the author's investigation of the dehumanising and destabilising effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian politics and society. Essential reading for those intent on understanding both the causes and the consequences of this conflict' -- Irene Gendzier, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Boston University and author of 'Development Against Democracy' (Pluto, 2017)'For several decades, Sara Roy has been bringing her unique moral authority to bear on the searing injustice that continues to be Palestine. This indispensable collection confronts us all with the inhuman conditions of life for the people of Gaza, tempered by the courage with which Roy explores it, her insistence on the unbreakable link between Jewishness and justice, and her ultimate faith in the resilience of the Palestinian people' -- Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities‘Offers a unique and insightful perspective’ -- ‘Washington Report on Middle East Affairs’‘Compelling’ -- ‘Morning Star’Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: “I can’t eat my lights” PART I - SETTING THE STAGE FOR CONFLICT IN GAZA: US POLICY FAILURES REDUX 1. Yes, You Can Work With Hamas: The US Approach to the Palestinian Territories is Inviting Disaster (July 17, 2007) 2. US Foreign Policy and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A View From Palestine (September 2011) PART II - THE MARGINALIZED CENTER: THE WARS ON GAZA AND THEIR AFTERMATH 3. If Gaza Falls … (January 1, 2009) 4. Endgame in the Gaza War? (January 4, 2009) 5. Degrees of Loss (October 8, 2010) 6. Gaza After the Revolution (March 16, 2011) 7. It’s Worth Putting Hamas to the Test (January 6, 2012) 8. Before Gaza, After Gaza: Examining the New Reality in Israel/Palestine (2013) PART III - TOWARD PRECARITY: EXCEPTIONALIZING GAZA 9. Statement on Gaza before the United Nations Security Council (July 20, 2015) 10. Humanitarianism in Gaza: What Not to Do (Summer 2015) 11. The Gaza Strip’s Last Safety Net is in Danger (August 6, 2015) PART - IV UNDOING ATTACHMENT: CREATING SPACES OF EXCESS 12. Yes, They Are Refugees (March 22, 2018) 13. Floating in an Inch of Water: A Letter from Gaza (2018) 14. “I wish they would just disappear” (December 2018) PART V - A JEW IN GAZA: REFLECTIONS 15. A Jewish Plea (April 7, 2007) 16. A Response to Elie Wiesel (September 9, 2014) 17. Hunger (June 9, 2017) 18. Book Review, Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (September 2018) 19. On Equating BDS with Anti-Semitism: A Letter to the Members of the German Government (June 4, 2019) 20. Tears of Salt: A Brief Reflection on Israel, Palestine and the Coronavirus (published here for the first time) PART VI - THE PASSING OF A GENERATION: COMMEMORATING COURAGEOUS PALESTINIAN VOICES 21. A Tribute to Eyad el-Sarraj (Spring 2014) 22. Remembering Naseer Aruri (2015) PART VII - THE PAST AS FUTURE: LESSONS FORGOTTEN 23. Gaza: Out of Sight (Autumn 1987; published here in English for the first time) 24. When a Loaf of Bread Was Not Enough: Unsilencing the Past in Gaza (published here for the first time) PART VIII - BETWEEN PRESENCE AND ABSENCE: PALESTINE AND THE ANTILOGIC OF DISPOSABILITY— CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS 25. An Unacceptable Absence: Countering Gaza’s Exceptionalism (published here for the first time) Epilogue: On the Falseness of Distinctions—“We are no different than you” (2014) Notes Index
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Pluto Press Bullets in Envelopes Iraqi Academics in Exile
Book SynopsisThe social and intellectual history of Iraq told through the academic, political and social experiences of Iraqi academics in exileTrade Review'These life stories of academics from around the globe tell a vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' -- miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University'Searing! The American assault aimed to 'end' the Iraqi state and shatter the culture that sustained it. Yako retrieves the stories of some sixty displaced Iraqi academics. Distillations of their experiences read as if written on shards of glass that penetrate the skin and wound the heart' -- Raymond W. Baker, Board Director, International Council for Middle East Studies, Washington, D.C.'Luis Yako's thinking is as compelling as his writing. 'Bullets in Envelopes' persuasively shifts the politics of argumentation. He uses anthropology to convey the existential turbulence of academics in exile after the US invasion, instead of using academics to advance the discipline' -- Walter D. Mignolo, author of 'The Politics of Decolonial Investigations' (Duke University Press, 2021)'Excavates a searing genealogy of loss that documents Iraqi academics' displacement, through a powerful account of the travails of higher education and the links between power and knowledge' -- Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsPreface Starting from the End: Returning to Iraq after a Decade in Exile Acknowledgments Introduction: The Story of This Story Questions and Contributions Fieldwork and Research Chapter-by-Chapter Summary PART I 1. A Nuanced Understanding of Iraq during the Baʿath Era The Conveniently Omitted Nuances of Iraq’s Story in Western Discourse A More Refined Understanding of the Iraqi Baʿath Era 2. The Baʿath Era: Iraqi Academics Looking Back Communist Academics and the Baʿath Curriculum, Fellowships, and Freedom of Expression Women Academics under the Baʿath Religion and Sectarianism under the Baʿath 3. The UN Sanctions: Consenting to Occupation through Starvation Documented Facts and Consequences of the UN Sanctions Blockaded on Every Side Women Academics during the Sanctions Academic Voices Critiquing the Iraqi Regime PART II 4. The Occupation: Paving the Road to Exile and Displacement Restructuring State and Society through Cultural and Academic Cleansing Killings, Assassinations, and Threats as Cleansing Sectarian Violence as Cleansing “De-Baʿathification” as Cleansing 5. Lives under Contract: The Transition to the Corporate University Exile Starts at Home Lives under Contract: The Corporate University in Jordan Lives under Contract: The Corporate University in Iraqi Kurdistan The Campus as “Concentration Camp” 6. Language as a Metonym for Politics The Politics of Language on Campus The Social Implications Do Sad Stories Ever End? 7. Final Reflections: Home, Exile, and the Future Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Bullets in Envelopes
Book SynopsisThe social and intellectual history of Iraq told through the academic, political and social experiences of Iraqi academics in exileTrade Review'These life stories of academics from around the globe tell a vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' -- miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University'Searing! The American assault aimed to 'end' the Iraqi state and shatter the culture that sustained it. Yako retrieves the stories of some sixty displaced Iraqi academics. Distillations of their experiences read as if written on shards of glass that penetrate the skin and wound the heart' -- Raymond W. Baker, Board Director, International Council for Middle East Studies, Washington, D.C.'Luis Yako's thinking is as compelling as his writing. 'Bullets in Envelopes' persuasively shifts the politics of argumentation. He uses anthropology to convey the existential turbulence of academics in exile after the US invasion, instead of using academics to advance the discipline' -- Walter D. Mignolo, author of 'The Politics of Decolonial Investigations' (Duke University Press, 2021)'Excavates a searing genealogy of loss that documents Iraqi academics' displacement, through a powerful account of the travails of higher education and the links between power and knowledge' -- Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Story of This Story 2. A Nuanced Understanding of Iraq during the Ba'ath Era 3. The Ba'ath Era: Iraqi Academics Looking Back 4. The UN Sanctions: Consenting to Occupation through Starvation 5. The Occupation: Paving the Road to Exile and Displacement 6. Lives under Contract: The Transition to the Corporate University 7. Language as a Metonym for Politics 8. Final Reflections: Home, Exile, and the Future
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Polity Press Moscow 1937
Book Synopsis* An award-winning account of Stalin s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. * Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror .Trade ReviewWinner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding "An almost impossibly rich masterpiece. The density and seriousness, the deliberation and literary art of this exhilarating tour de force testifies to the enduring value and purpose of that perhaps now-vanishing triumph of the human intellect, the book." The Atlantic, best five books of 2012 "A dizzyingly brilliant panorama of the enormous variety of events and processes unfolding in Moscow between 1936 and 1938. Schlogel succeeds admirably - indeed, better than any historian to date - in reproducing the atmosphere and grotesque contradictions." Times Higher Education "Exceptionally readable. An extraordinary, thought-provoking masterpiece." Literary Review “An excellent and original book. Not only is it a highly detailed account of a city in turmoil (containing many more fascinating stories than a review can ever do full justice), but it reveals clearly how 1937 was a year of extreme contradictions” Europe/Asia Studies "Schlögel's total history of Moscow during the fateful year ranks among the best of Sovietology." International Affairs "No book could be more equal to the task of restoring Stalin’s victims to Western memory than Schlögel’s Moscow, 1937 - it is an extraordinary work of scholarship, prose and remembrance." Times Literary Supplement "“A brilliant achievement of historical writing, one that can be read profitably by specialist and the general reader alike.” American Historical Review "Schlogel's comprehensive overview gives a profound overall view of what it was like to live in such a crucial place in such a crucial year." Dublin Review of Books "It is great. Moscow, 1937 teaches us that life goes on as usual, even in the midst of great catastrophe, but it also teaches that great catastrophe can look a lot like life going on as usual." Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Compelling in every way, the book startles the mind and stirs the imagination in the way that only poetry and music can sometimes do. An instant classic." Wichita Eagle "Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937 draws a living, multi-dimensional portrait of the megacity in a crucial year of upheaval that evokes all the hope, despair, creativity, horror, escapism, terror, fear, and striving that enveloped the Muscovite cityscape and its inhabitants. Schlögel is an unusually inventive historian and a brilliant stylist; it’s a great boon to have his latest work available in English." Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University and author of Stalin’s Genocides "This book’s focus is one year, 1937, and one place, Moscow, but it is no narrow history. The narrative has sweep and depth, encompassing the mundane, the spectacular, and the nightmare dream world of Stalin’s purges; an incomparable book about people during one of the most grandiose and terrifying epochs of the twentieth century." David Shearer, University of Delaware "Starting from a birds-eye view of the city from above, a homage to the flight of Bulgakov’s Margarita, Schloegel captures the complex specificity of a time and place of immense significance in Soviet and twentieth-century history. In this multivalent historical moment, interrogations at the Lubyanka coexist with happy summer vacations and the triumphant conquest of the North Pole by Soviet aviators. Schloegel brings into play an ingenious variety of sources, ranging from architectural blueprints and city directories to execution records, not forgetting diaries and literary evocations. This is a masterful, panoramic work by a gifted story-teller who is also a highly innovative, sophisticated and erudite historian." Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago "In brilliant fashion Karl Schlögel presents Moscow as a rotating stage of Soviet desire and Stalinist nightmares. Like no other author before him, he charges his prose and the sequence of scenes with the hallucinatory power of the Communist project. The vertiginous and terrifying effect is his very point and singular achievement." Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University "Karl Schlogel's Moscow 1937 is a brilliant essay of "Total history" on a crucial episode of Soviet history, on one of the greatest historical catastrophes of the Twentieth Century.This is the first book which goes beyond totalitarianism and revisionism and brings us a totally new interpretation of this tragic event by presenting together opposing experiences and manifestations such as the preparation for universal, free, direct and secret elections and carefully planned, organized mass killings. Or, in other words, Dream and Terror." Nicolas Werth, Institut d’histoire du temps présent "This is a montage of a great city in tumult, in equal parts depicting the optimism of progress and the horror of the show trials, all in the shadow of a looming war." Andrew Cornish, Readings "While most historians see both terror and civilisation as important to understanding the Soviet experience of the 1930s, they tend to spend their time investigating either one or the other. Schlögel is the first to attempt to knit them together so intricately. Moscow 1937 is an act of remembrance as well as a work of history.” London Review of Books "There is no book that so perfectly and completely captures the stark contradictions of Soviet life. Each scene is a marvel, and together they recreate for us a multisided and vanished world." Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgements xiii Reproduction Acknowledgements xvii Translator's Note xx Introduction 1 1 Navigation: Margarita's Flight 10 Margarita's fl ight – Manuscripts don't burn: a writer in 1937 – Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts – Dramatis personae and their portrayal: dual characters – NKVD, the organization – 'People vanished from their apartments without trace' – Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle – 'It can't be!' 2 Moscow as a Construction Site: Stalin's General Plan in Action 33 Aleksandr Medvedkin's film New Moscow – A new cityscape: Stalin's General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow – Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction – Moscow beyond the ring roads – Human landscape, struggle for survival 3 A Topography of the Disappeared: The Moscow Directory of 1936 54 Snapshot of the status quo: directories as documents of their age – Topography of power and other locations – Traces of the disappeared – Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses 4 The Creation of Enemies: The Criminal Prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, 19 - 24 August 1936 68 World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the fi rst Moscow show trial – The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language – 'Double-dealers' – The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law – The ideal enemy 5 'Tired of the Effort of Observing and Understanding': Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 81 A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin – The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to generate a point of view – The end of the fl âneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD – The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum – Leave-taking at Belorusskii Station 6 In the Glare of Battle: Spain and Other Fronts 95 Moscow maps: the scene is Spain – A world in meltdown, war scare – The Soviet nation as a patriotic fi ghting unit – Metastases: show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad – Barcelona transfer: Moscow experiences 7 Blindness and Terror: The Suppressed Census of 1937 109 A journey into the interior of society – 6 January 1937: snapshot of an empire – Ten years after the census of 1926: balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward – Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition – The shock of the missing millions – Statistics as crime 8 A Stage for the Horrors of Industrialization: The Second Moscow Show Trial in January 1937 125 'The Business-like atmosphere' – The language of expert witnesses – The topography of the Five-Year Plan – Human sacrifi ce, nemesis, chorus – Postscript 9 'A Feast in the Time of Plague': The Pushkin Jubilee of 10 February 1937 144 The New York Times: 'All Russia was Pushkin-mad today' – 'Comrade Pushkin': consecration of a classic – A feast in the time of plague: coded discourses – Platitudes of a new culture – Russian genius and imperial rule 10 Public Death: Ordzhonikidze's Suicide and Death Rites 160 The shock: Sergo is dead – Escape into ritual – Suicide as a weapon – A hopeless situation and protest – Death as a group experience: speaking of death in times of mass murder 11 The Engine Room of the Year 1937: The February-March Plenum of the Central Committee 177 A leadership at its wits' end: the voice of panic – Testing the limits and exceeding them: the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov – The shock: 'universal, free, secret elections' – Audit report: ungovernability and fear of chaos – Wreckers at work in the NKVD – The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one – Setting the machinery in motion 12 Moscow in Paris: The USSR Pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 198 The exhibition trail: a journey through the map of the Soviet Union – The theme park of twentieth-century civilization – Marginal encounters 13 Red Square: Parade Ground and Place of Execution 209 14 Chopin Concert and Killing Ritual: Radio and the Creation of the Great Community 215 Radiofi katsia: the two faces of progress – Radio as the background noise of the new age – The sphere of feelings – Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world' – Stalin: the original soundtrack: the direction of the historical moment – Wreckers at work in the ether 15 Soviet Art Deco: Time Preserved in Stone 229 The First All-Union Congress of Architects, 16–26 June 1937 – Moscow as a building site – Chaos and stress – The Soviet universe as exhibition – The creation of a new style during a state of emergency – Closing speech: Frank Lloyd Wright 16 'Brown Bodies, Gaily Coloured Shorts': Sports Parade 248 'The glorious beauty of young people' – Fizkul'turnik, fi zkul'turnitsa: icons of the new age – 'Stalin's tribe': tableaux vivants in Red Square 17 Wealth and Destruction: The Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow 256 The emergence of Soviet geologists: science and the dream of an affluent nation – Pioneers the nation does not need: geologists as enemies of the people – Vladimir Vernadskii: a patriot without fear – Excursion to the Moscow–Volga Canal: science and slave labour 18 A City by the Sea: The Opening of the Moscow–Volga Canal 274 After the White Sea Canal: Stalin's second arterial highway – A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk: the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape – Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital: the parallel society of the camp zone – Perekovka/ reforging: the laboratory of the new man – 'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp' 19 Year of Adventures, 1937: A Soviet Icarus 294 Triumphs, records: a city in a fever – Non-stop to America – The conquest of the Arctic – Twentieth-century adventures – Heroes of the age: Stalin's aviators – 'There are thousands of dreamers like me' – 'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror 20 Moscow as Shop-Window: The Abundance of the World, Hungry for Goods and Dizzy with Hunger 314 André Gide: on luxury and shortages – Advertisements, window displays: objects of desire and how to present them – Dizzy with hunger – A hopeless struggle: a nation of speculators – The queue as grapevine 21 Open Spaces, Dream Landscapes: Cruising on the Volga, Holidaying on the Red Riviera, Conspiracies in the Dachas 326 22 The National Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov: His Return Home and Death 332 Returning home from exile: establishing contact with the new Russia – National Bolshevism and Stalin's 'Socialism in One Country' – The world of 'former people' and 1937 – A double reading: a diary with comments by the NKVD 23 Celebrating the October Revolution on 7 November 1937 344 In the diplomats' box – Conversations in the inner circle of power 24 A Miniature of High Society before the Massacre 355 The bombs come closer – Beau monde, illustrious society – Masked ball at the American Embassy – Interior with piano and nursemaid – Yezhov's salon: art and the secret police – Postscript: inventory of luxury and fashion 25 Soviet Hollywood: Miracles and Monsters 372 Lenin in October: the Revolution corrected – The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars – Mosfi lm 1937: chaos in the film factory – Volga-Volga: directors as conspirators, actors as spies – Terror and good entertainment 26 Death in Exile 387 Dimitrov's diary: a record of self-destruction – Vanishing point Moscow: biotope – Foreign comrades – Vulnerability: world communism as world conspiracy – Lists, dossiers and card indexes 27 Arcadia in Moscow: Stalin's Luna Park 404 'A centre of culture and rest' – 'What a summer!' – The locus of public opinion 28 'Avtozavodtsy': The Workforce of the Stalin Car Factories 413 'Shanghai': city of immigrants, city on the periphery – Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry – Factory patriotism: the factory as melting pot – 'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair 29 Dzhaz: The Sound of the Thirties 433 Dzhaz (Utesov) – Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii) – Classical music (Shostakovich) 30 Changing Faces, Changing Times 444 31 America, America: The Other New World 450 Ili' a Il' f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America – Special relations: Soviet Americanism and the New Deal – The American way of life in 1937 – Utopia as present-day reality 32 'I Know of No Other Country . . .': 1937 and the Production of Soviet Space 463 The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses – Moscow as an image-making machine – Homogenizing labour: purges and the unity of the Soviet nation 33 The Butovo Shooting Range: Topography of the Great Terror 472 Looking for traces: the archaeology of the graveyard – Mass murder on the outskirts of the city – Sociology of the mass grave – Killing by quota: Order No. 00447 – World war, civil war 34 Lonely White Sail . . .: Dreamtime, Children's Worlds 505 35 Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Cheka 510 At the heart of Moscow: power made visible – Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders – Ovations for the executioners: morituri salutant 36 Bukharin Takes his Leave 519 Bukharin's final plea – The show trial: exercises in dialectics – The Lubianka: prison as a production site – Letter to Koba – A Moscow childhood in 1900 37 'For Official Use Only': Moscow as a City on the Enemy Map 538 38 The Foundation Pit 544 The imaginary centre: a support for the empire – The dome that disappeared: Russian Byzantium – Labouring away at a vacuum: fantasies of the building of the century – Rome, New York, Moscow: the genius of Boris Iofan – War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency 39 Instead of an Epilogue 558 Notes 559 Select Bibliography 619 Index 638
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Moscow 1937
Book Synopsis* An award-winning account of Stalin s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. * Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror .Trade ReviewWinner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding "An almost impossibly rich masterpiece. The density and seriousness, the deliberation and literary art of this exhilarating tour de force testifies to the enduring value and purpose of that perhaps now-vanishing triumph of the human intellect, the book." The Atlantic, best five books of 2012 "A dizzyingly brilliant panorama of the enormous variety of events and processes unfolding in Moscow between 1936 and 1938. Schlogel succeeds admirably - indeed, better than any historian to date - in reproducing the atmosphere and grotesque contradictions." Times Higher Education "Exceptionally readable. An extraordinary, thought-provoking masterpiece." Literary Review “An excellent and original book. Not only is it a highly detailed account of a city in turmoil (containing many more fascinating stories than a review can ever do full justice), but it reveals clearly how 1937 was a year of extreme contradictions” Europe/Asia Studies "Schlögel's total history of Moscow during the fateful year ranks among the best of Sovietology." International Affairs "No book could be more equal to the task of restoring Stalin’s victims to Western memory than Schlögel’s Moscow, 1937 - it is an extraordinary work of scholarship, prose and remembrance." Times Literary Supplement "“A brilliant achievement of historical writing, one that can be read profitably by specialist and the general reader alike.” American Historical Review "Schlogel's comprehensive overview gives a profound overall view of what it was like to live in such a crucial place in such a crucial year." Dublin Review of Books "It is great. Moscow, 1937 teaches us that life goes on as usual, even in the midst of great catastrophe, but it also teaches that great catastrophe can look a lot like life going on as usual." Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Compelling in every way, the book startles the mind and stirs the imagination in the way that only poetry and music can sometimes do. An instant classic." Wichita Eagle "Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937 draws a living, multi-dimensional portrait of the megacity in a crucial year of upheaval that evokes all the hope, despair, creativity, horror, escapism, terror, fear, and striving that enveloped the Muscovite cityscape and its inhabitants. Schlögel is an unusually inventive historian and a brilliant stylist; it’s a great boon to have his latest work available in English." Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University and author of Stalin’s Genocides "This book’s focus is one year, 1937, and one place, Moscow, but it is no narrow history. The narrative has sweep and depth, encompassing the mundane, the spectacular, and the nightmare dream world of Stalin’s purges; an incomparable book about people during one of the most grandiose and terrifying epochs of the twentieth century." David Shearer, University of Delaware "Starting from a birds-eye view of the city from above, a homage to the flight of Bulgakov’s Margarita, Schloegel captures the complex specificity of a time and place of immense significance in Soviet and twentieth-century history. In this multivalent historical moment, interrogations at the Lubyanka coexist with happy summer vacations and the triumphant conquest of the North Pole by Soviet aviators. Schloegel brings into play an ingenious variety of sources, ranging from architectural blueprints and city directories to execution records, not forgetting diaries and literary evocations. This is a masterful, panoramic work by a gifted story-teller who is also a highly innovative, sophisticated and erudite historian." Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago "In brilliant fashion Karl Schlögel presents Moscow as a rotating stage of Soviet desire and Stalinist nightmares. Like no other author before him, he charges his prose and the sequence of scenes with the hallucinatory power of the Communist project. The vertiginous and terrifying effect is his very point and singular achievement." Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University "Karl Schlogel's Moscow 1937 is a brilliant essay of "Total history" on a crucial episode of Soviet history, on one of the greatest historical catastrophes of the Twentieth Century.This is the first book which goes beyond totalitarianism and revisionism and brings us a totally new interpretation of this tragic event by presenting together opposing experiences and manifestations such as the preparation for universal, free, direct and secret elections and carefully planned, organized mass killings. Or, in other words, Dream and Terror." Nicolas Werth, Institut d’histoire du temps présent "This is a montage of a great city in tumult, in equal parts depicting the optimism of progress and the horror of the show trials, all in the shadow of a looming war." Andrew Cornish, Readings "While most historians see both terror and civilisation as important to understanding the Soviet experience of the 1930s, they tend to spend their time investigating either one or the other. Schlögel is the first to attempt to knit them together so intricately. Moscow 1937 is an act of remembrance as well as a work of history.” London Review of Books "There is no book that so perfectly and completely captures the stark contradictions of Soviet life. Each scene is a marvel, and together they recreate for us a multisided and vanished world." Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgements xiii Reproduction Acknowledgements xvii Translator's Note xx Introduction 1 1 Navigation: Margarita's Flight 10 Margarita's fl ight – Manuscripts don't burn: a writer in 1937 – Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts – Dramatis personae and their portrayal: dual characters – NKVD, the organization – 'People vanished from their apartments without trace' – Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle – 'It can't be!' 2 Moscow as a Construction Site: Stalin's General Plan in Action 33 Aleksandr Medvedkin's film New Moscow – A new cityscape: Stalin's General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow – Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction – Moscow beyond the ring roads – Human landscape, struggle for survival 3 A Topography of the Disappeared: The Moscow Directory of 1936 54 Snapshot of the status quo: directories as documents of their age – Topography of power and other locations – Traces of the disappeared – Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses 4 The Creation of Enemies: The Criminal Prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, 19 - 24 August 1936 68 World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the fi rst Moscow show trial – The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language – 'Double-dealers' – The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law – The ideal enemy 5 'Tired of the Effort of Observing and Understanding': Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 81 A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin – The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to generate a point of view – The end of the fl âneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD – The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum – Leave-taking at Belorusskii Station 6 In the Glare of Battle: Spain and Other Fronts 95 Moscow maps: the scene is Spain – A world in meltdown, war scare – The Soviet nation as a patriotic fi ghting unit – Metastases: show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad – Barcelona transfer: Moscow experiences 7 Blindness and Terror: The Suppressed Census of 1937 109 A journey into the interior of society – 6 January 1937: snapshot of an empire – Ten years after the census of 1926: balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward – Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition – The shock of the missing millions – Statistics as crime 8 A Stage for the Horrors of Industrialization: The Second Moscow Show Trial in January 1937 125 'The Business-like atmosphere' – The language of expert witnesses – The topography of the Five-Year Plan – Human sacrifi ce, nemesis, chorus – Postscript 9 'A Feast in the Time of Plague': The Pushkin Jubilee of 10 February 1937 144 The New York Times: 'All Russia was Pushkin-mad today' – 'Comrade Pushkin': consecration of a classic – A feast in the time of plague: coded discourses – Platitudes of a new culture – Russian genius and imperial rule 10 Public Death: Ordzhonikidze's Suicide and Death Rites 160 The shock: Sergo is dead – Escape into ritual – Suicide as a weapon – A hopeless situation and protest – Death as a group experience: speaking of death in times of mass murder 11 The Engine Room of the Year 1937: The February-March Plenum of the Central Committee 177 A leadership at its wits' end: the voice of panic – Testing the limits and exceeding them: the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov – The shock: 'universal, free, secret elections' – Audit report: ungovernability and fear of chaos – Wreckers at work in the NKVD – The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one – Setting the machinery in motion 12 Moscow in Paris: The USSR Pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 198 The exhibition trail: a journey through the map of the Soviet Union – The theme park of twentieth-century civilization – Marginal encounters 13 Red Square: Parade Ground and Place of Execution 209 14 Chopin Concert and Killing Ritual: Radio and the Creation of the Great Community 215 Radiofi katsia: the two faces of progress – Radio as the background noise of the new age – The sphere of feelings – Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world' – Stalin: the original soundtrack: the direction of the historical moment – Wreckers at work in the ether 15 Soviet Art Deco: Time Preserved in Stone 229 The First All-Union Congress of Architects, 16–26 June 1937 – Moscow as a building site – Chaos and stress – The Soviet universe as exhibition – The creation of a new style during a state of emergency – Closing speech: Frank Lloyd Wright 16 'Brown Bodies, Gaily Coloured Shorts': Sports Parade 248 'The glorious beauty of young people' – Fizkul'turnik, fi zkul'turnitsa: icons of the new age – 'Stalin's tribe': tableaux vivants in Red Square 17 Wealth and Destruction: The Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow 256 The emergence of Soviet geologists: science and the dream of an affluent nation – Pioneers the nation does not need: geologists as enemies of the people – Vladimir Vernadskii: a patriot without fear – Excursion to the Moscow–Volga Canal: science and slave labour 18 A City by the Sea: The Opening of the Moscow–Volga Canal 274 After the White Sea Canal: Stalin's second arterial highway – A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk: the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape – Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital: the parallel society of the camp zone – Perekovka/ reforging: the laboratory of the new man – 'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp' 19 Year of Adventures, 1937: A Soviet Icarus 294 Triumphs, records: a city in a fever – Non-stop to America – The conquest of the Arctic – Twentieth-century adventures – Heroes of the age: Stalin's aviators – 'There are thousands of dreamers like me' – 'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror 20 Moscow as Shop-Window: The Abundance of the World, Hungry for Goods and Dizzy with Hunger 314 André Gide: on luxury and shortages – Advertisements, window displays: objects of desire and how to present them – Dizzy with hunger – A hopeless struggle: a nation of speculators – The queue as grapevine 21 Open Spaces, Dream Landscapes: Cruising on the Volga, Holidaying on the Red Riviera, Conspiracies in the Dachas 326 22 The National Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov: His Return Home and Death 332 Returning home from exile: establishing contact with the new Russia – National Bolshevism and Stalin's 'Socialism in One Country' – The world of 'former people' and 1937 – A double reading: a diary with comments by the NKVD 23 Celebrating the October Revolution on 7 November 1937 344 In the diplomats' box – Conversations in the inner circle of power 24 A Miniature of High Society before the Massacre 355 The bombs come closer – Beau monde, illustrious society – Masked ball at the American Embassy – Interior with piano and nursemaid – Yezhov's salon: art and the secret police – Postscript: inventory of luxury and fashion 25 Soviet Hollywood: Miracles and Monsters 372 Lenin in October: the Revolution corrected – The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars – Mosfi lm 1937: chaos in the film factory – Volga-Volga: directors as conspirators, actors as spies – Terror and good entertainment 26 Death in Exile 387 Dimitrov's diary: a record of self-destruction – Vanishing point Moscow: biotope – Foreign comrades – Vulnerability: world communism as world conspiracy – Lists, dossiers and card indexes 27 Arcadia in Moscow: Stalin's Luna Park 404 'A centre of culture and rest' – 'What a summer!' – The locus of public opinion 28 'Avtozavodtsy': The Workforce of the Stalin Car Factories 413 'Shanghai': city of immigrants, city on the periphery – Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry – Factory patriotism: the factory as melting pot – 'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair 29 Dzhaz: The Sound of the Thirties 433 Dzhaz (Utesov) – Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii) – Classical music (Shostakovich) 30 Changing Faces, Changing Times 444 31 America, America: The Other New World 450 Ili' a Il' f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America – Special relations: Soviet Americanism and the New Deal – The American way of life in 1937 – Utopia as present-day reality 32 'I Know of No Other Country . . .': 1937 and the Production of Soviet Space 463 The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses – Moscow as an image-making machine – Homogenizing labour: purges and the unity of the Soviet nation 33 The Butovo Shooting Range: Topography of the Great Terror 472 Looking for traces: the archaeology of the graveyard – Mass murder on the outskirts of the city – Sociology of the mass grave – Killing by quota: Order No. 00447 – World war, civil war 34 Lonely White Sail . . .: Dreamtime, Children's Worlds 505 35 Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Cheka 510 At the heart of Moscow: power made visible – Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders – Ovations for the executioners: morituri salutant 36 Bukharin Takes his Leave 519 Bukharin's final plea – The show trial: exercises in dialectics – The Lubianka: prison as a production site – Letter to Koba – A Moscow childhood in 1900 37 'For Official Use Only': Moscow as a City on the Enemy Map 538 38 The Foundation Pit 544 The imaginary centre: a support for the empire – The dome that disappeared: Russian Byzantium – Labouring away at a vacuum: fantasies of the building of the century – Rome, New York, Moscow: the genius of Boris Iofan – War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency 39 Instead of an Epilogue 558 Notes 559 Select Bibliography 619 Index 638
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The History Press Ltd Martyrs of Henry VIII
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The History Press Ltd The Rebecca Code
Book SynopsisJohn Eppler thought himself to be the perfect spy. Born to German parents, he grew up in Egypt, adopted by a wealthy family and was educated in Europe. Fluent in German, English and Arabic, he made the Hadj to Mecca but was more at home in high society or travelling the desert on camelback with his adopted Bedouin tribe. After joining the German Secret Service in 1937, in 1942 he was sent across the desert to Cairo by Field Marshal Rommel. His guide was the explorer and Hungarian aristocrat Laszlo Almasy, a man made famous by the book The English Patient. Eppler's mission was to infiltrate British Army Headquarters and discover the Eighth Army's troop movements and battle plans. In The Rebecca Code, Mark Simmons reveals the story of Operation Condor and its comedy of errors and how it was foiled by Major A.W. Sammy' Sansom of the British Field Security Service. It is a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and the spy who was to send his reports using a co
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Myanmars Rohingya Genocide Identity History and
Book SynopsisRonan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London's Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His research focusses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics. Ronan has been a Visiting Scholar at the International State Crime Initiative, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, and was a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009), serving on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice, Main Roads and Local Government, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. He has also worked as a senior government advisor, and as an election strategist and campaign manager. Ronan was awarded the Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize 2021 by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.Trade Review25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, will the international community really allow this to happen again? With Ronan Lee's profound new offering, we can no longer claim ignorance about the horrific plight of the Rohingya people. * Lieutenant-General (ret) The Honourable Romeo Dallaire *Ronan Lee's book is one of the most important studies of the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar to date. It seeks to understand the Rohingya situation in its proper historical context and contemporary political situation, offering a fair, reliable, insightful analysis that identifies the many factors that will keep contributing to this crisis. The biggest contribution, however, is the examination of the genocide from the perspectives of different individuals involved in the crisis, which reveals just how complicated and difficult a resolution will be. This book is highly recommended to anyone seeking to understand the crisis, and importantly, those in governments and NGOs who can adapt practice on the basis of insights a careful reading of this volume offers. * Professor Michael W. Charney, SOAS, UK *In his new book, Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide, Lee in effect predicted the current seizure of power by the military ... Lee conducted fieldwork in Myanmar and its neighbouring countries, and his book is determined to tell the stories of the Rohingya themselves. * The National *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acronyms Introduction: Bamboo, Tarpaulin and Mud Chapter 1. Rohingya Roots in Ancient Arakan Chapter 2. British Colonial Rule and Rohingya Identity Chapter 3. Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Stateless Chapter 4. Myanmar’s Failed Political Transition Chapter 5. Conflicting Historical Narratives Chapter 6. People Would Like to Demolish Our History Chapter 7. We are Rohingya Chapter 8. Seeking Common Ground Acknowledgements Bibliographical Survey Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) National Identity in Serbia
Book SynopsisVassilis Petsinis is Associate Professor of Politics at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary (Institute of Global Studies).Trade ReviewThe book is an important contribution to the study of multi-ethnic regionalisms and is strongly recommended for anyone engaged in the Western Balkans, whether scholars, EU policymakers or local political players. * Europe-Asia Studies *A richly documented political history of Serbia’s autonomous province Vojvodina, ranging from the Habsburg era to the early 21st century. * Comparative Southeast European Studies *A comprehensive picture of the development of Vojvodina’s identity. * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *[A] very thorough review of multiethnic communities and interethnic relations in the province ... This is the best introduction to Vojvodina in English. * CHOICE *Vassilis Petsinis gives a lucid introduction to the recent history and politics of the Vojvodina. His account is neatly structured, written in accessible language, and situated in an effective theoretical and comparative framework. It is an important contribution not only to South-East European studies but also to the developing literature on the relationship between national and regional identities in contemporary Europe. * Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor of Central European History, UCL, UK *I recommend this book to scholars, students and political actors, who deal with the questions of multiculturalism and regionalization, both in Western Balkans and across Europe. * Nations and Nationalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Vojvodina through Time: From the Habsburg Era to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2. Vojvodina in the 1990s: From the Termination of Autonomy to the Fall of Slobodan Milosevic 3. Vojvodina in Transition: The 2000s 4. Vojvodina Today: Between New Challenges and Opportunities Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Black Power and the American People
Book SynopsisRafael Torrubia is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern History at the University of St.Andrew's, UK.Trade ReviewWith eloquent prose and analytical precision, Rafael Torrubia brilliantly illustrates the significance of Black Power as a “revolutionary cultural concept”. Challenging conventional periodisations and narratives, Black Power and the American People connects a diverse range of individuals, movements and moments to show how self-determination has always been a central demand of the African American freedom struggle. This is essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand the complexity of Black Power and how the movement continues to resonate today. * Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hotheads and Demagogues: What is Black Power? 2. Why Black Power? 3. A Nation of Militants? 4. ‘Dramas-of-Aggression’: Black Power in Sports 5. Behind Bars and Under Fire 6. Chariots to the Stars 7. Culture from the Midnight Hour Conclusion The Long History of Black Power Notes Bibliography Index
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McFarland and Company, Inc. The Bamboo Gulag Political Imprisonment in
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in communist Vietnam explores the three-pronged approach that was used to convert the rebellious South into a fully-fledged communist country after 1975.
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Rutgers University Press Military Power and Popular Protest The USNavy in Vieques Puerto Rico
Book SynopsisA complete analysis of the troubled relationship between the US Navy and the residents of Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Since the 1940s when the navy expropriated over two-thirds of the island, residents have struggled to make a life amid the bombs and weaponry fire.Trade ReviewMcCaffrey's outstanding analysis movingly narrates this community's longstanding anguish and accurately situates the Vieques movement in the larger context of U.S. military policy in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico's unresolved status quandary. Those interested in understanding the Vieques crisis will find Military Power and Popular Protest an indispensable work. -- Amflcar Antonio Barreto * author of Vieques, the Navy, and Puerto Rican Politics *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Acronyms and Spanish Terms Introduction One. A Strategic Colony on the Margins of the Empire Two. Cultural Identity of Vieques Three. The Fishermen's War Four. We Are a Species in Danger of Extinction: The Aftermath of the Fishermen's Crusade Five. Organizing for Change Six. From Pescadores to Rescatores: The Resurgence and Transformation of Struggle Seven. The Battle of Vieques Notes References Index
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Rlpg/Galleys The Language of Oppression
Book SynopsisExamines decadence in our language, especially that language which leads to dehumanization and degradation of human beings. Powerful illustrations may be found in the fact that, for instance, Hitler''s Final Solution appeared reasonable once the Jews were successfully labelled by the Nazis as sub-humans, parasites, vermin, or bacilli. So, too, the subjugation of the American Indian was defensible since they were defined as barbarians and savages. The author of this engrossing text that was originally published in 1974 by Public Affairs Press successfully identifies and critically comments on the racist, sexist, and ethnic slurs still predominant in society today, with the hope that this decadence will be cured. Winner of the 1983 George Orwell Award from the Committee on Doublespeak of the NCTE.Trade Review...fascinating and convincing. * Etc. *...a profound and human book... * Journal of Pragmatics *A highly readable effort... * CHOICE *A highly readable effort... * CHOICE *...fascinating and convincing. * Etc. *...a profound and human book... * Journal of Pragmatics *
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Spokesman Books Constructive Bloodbath in Indonesia The United
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Oneworld Publications The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran
Book SynopsisHow did the Shah of Iran become a modern despot? In 1953, Iranian monarch Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi emerged victorious from a power struggle with his prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, thanks to a coup masterminded by Britain and the United States. Mosaddeq believed the Shah should reign not rule, but the Shah was determined that no one would make him a mere symbol. In this meticulous political history, Ali Rahnema details Iran’s slow transition from constitutional to despotic monarchy. He examines the tug of war between the Shah, his political opposition, a nation in search of greater liberty, and successive US administrations with their changing priorities. He shows how the Shah gradually assumed control over the legislature, the judiciary, the executive, and the media, and clamped down on his opponents’ activities. By 1968, the Shah’s turn to despotism was complete. The consequences would be far-reaching.Trade Review‘As creative and sensitive in his interpretations as he is meticulous in his research, Rahnema offers a forensic analysis of the history of the last shah of Iran’s drift into dictatorship, guiding us skilfully through Iran’s political history, from the aftermath of the 1953 royalist coup d’état to the shah’s triumphant, Napoleonic coronation ceremony in 1968. Chronicles of the late monarch’s steady consolidation of power in his own hands and the stifling of dissent are now legion, of course. But rarely has detail been marshalled so effectively in demonstrating these points… Rahnema has written an important and insightful treatment of Iranian political history in the 1950s and 1960s, a period that is often glossed over superficially in the rush to connect the 1953 coup to the shah’s autocracy in the 1970s, but which actually marks a critical moment of transition for Iran.’ * International Journal of Middle East Studies *‘A brilliant history of late Pahlavi Iran and the fatal entanglements of the shah, the opposition and the United States.’ * Stephanie Cronin, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow, University of Oxford *‘Richly detailed yet exceedingly accessible… The significant insights Rahnema offers into Mohammad Reza Shah’s rise and political trajectory make the book an important read for students not just of modern Iran but of despotic politics more broadly.’ * Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University *
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Saqi Books Egyptian Earth
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Michigan State University Press Letters from Robben Island A Selection of Ahmed
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