The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

ISBN-13: 9783030549626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 596 str.

Christian Gerlach; Clemens Six

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Anti-Communist Persecutions in The 20th Century- Christian Gerlach

Part I: Policies and Practices of Persecution

2. The Smith Act Trials and Systemic Violence: Anti-Communist Persecution and Prosecution in America, 1949-1957- Barbara J. Falk

3. The Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Leftist State Persecution in Modern Japan- Frank Jacob

4. Franco’s Anti-Communist Judicial System: Results and Solutions of Spanish Transitional Justice- Daniel Vallès Muñío

5. Laboratories of The Conditio Humana: The Role of Communism in Greek and Argentine Torture Centers During Their Last Military Dictatorships- Janis Nalbadidacis

6. Maoist Insurgency and The State’s Counterinsurgency in India: An Anti-Anti-Communist Historical Perspective- Bernard D’mello and Gautam Navlakha

7. Getting Hold of a Universe of Conspirators: Anti-Communist Panic, Fears of Subversion, and the Routine of Repression in Senegal’s Early Postcolonial Secret Police (The Sûreté), 1962–1965- Alexander Keese

Part II: Anti-Communism in The Context of Nation-Building, Race and Religion

8. How Anti-Communism Disrupted Decolonization: South Korea’s State-Building Under US Patronage- Dong-Choon Kim

9. Redefining The Outsider: Anti-Communist Narratives and the Student Massacre in Tlatelolco (1968)- Elisa Kriza

10. The Black and Red Scare in the 20th Century United States- Robbie Lieberman

11. Christian Agency in Anti-Communist Persecution? British-Malaya and Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s- Clemens Six

Part III: Anti-Communist Persecution and New Models of Capital Accumulation

12. Killing Communists: Stalinist Repression and the “Great Terror” in the Soviet Union- Wendy Z. Goldman

13. Nation-Building as Anti-Communist Violence: The Armed Forces in Cold War Argentina- James H. Shrader

Part IV: The Role of Non-State Actors

14. Non-State Anti-Communism and Political Violence in Argentina and Uruguay, 1958-1973- Ernesto Bohoslavsky and Magdalena Broquetas

15. The Religious Justification of Anti-Communist Persecutions in Greece (1920-1949)- Amaryllis Logotheti

16. From World War One to The Vanguard of Nazism? A Statistical Approach to the History of German Paramilitarism- Jan-Philipp Pomplun

17. The Persecution of Communists in Mao’s China- Ning Wang

18. A Short History of Anti-Communist Violence in Colombia (1930-2018): Rupture with the Past or Rebranding?- Andrei Gomez-Suarez

Part V: Responses of the Persecuted

19. “So That They Leave the Prison Cage as Conscious Revolutionaries”: How Polish Communists Used Prison- Padraic Kenney

20. Women, Communism, and Repression in Interwar Poland: 1918-1939- Natalia Jarska

21. Indonesian Narratives of Survival in and after 1965 and their Relation to Societal Persecution- Christian Gerlach

22. Remembering Anticommunist Violence in Rural Society in Indonesia: Patronage, Agricultural Transformation, and the Legacy of Violence- Grace Leksana

23. The Left in Turkey: Emergence, Persecutions and Left-Wing Memory Work- Berna Pekesen

Part VI: Concluding Remarks

24. Anti-Communism Between Globe-Spanning Processes and Local Peculiarities- Clemens Six

O autorze

Christian Gerlach is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a global historian whose research covers Nazi Germany and World War II, comparative mass violence, and the history of food, hunger and development policies. He is author of The Extermination of the European Jews (2016), Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (2010), The Last Chapter: Realpolitik, Ideology and the Murder of Hungarian Jews (with Götz Aly, 2002), Calculated Murder: The German Economic and Extermination Policy in Belarus (1999) and War, Food, Genocide: Studies on the German Extermination Policy in World War II (1998). His publications have appeared in eleven languages.

Clemens Six is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include politics and religion in 20th century South and Southeast Asia, transnational secularism studies, global intellectual history since 1945, and the history of international development cooperation. He is the author of Secularism, Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and South East Asia (2018) and Spectacular Politics: Performative nation-building and religion in modern India (2010).

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