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Suppressed yet Stubborn Truths
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Hun Joon Kim
Published: 31 January 2014
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Introduction
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Adeeb Khalid
Published: 12 November 2015
... against Soviet convention and tradition in Central Asia, as led by two groups of intellectuals: the Bolsheviks and the Jadids. The two had different visions of modernity. The Bolsheviks believed that all people should accept communism to overcome the world's “backwardness,” while the Jadids believed...
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The Cold War at Cornell
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Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick
Published: 31 July 2014
... in the university's Intensive Russian Language and Culture Program. It then considers how Edmund Ezra Day and his successor, Deane Waldo Malott, addressed the issue of communism on campus. It also discusses Robert Fogel's role in putting Marxism on the postwar campus map; the House of Representatives's indictment...
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Published: 21 May 2015
... Antonescu, and the view that the Legion was a spiritual movement aimed at fighting communism. Antisemitism Călinescu Armand Cuza Alexandru Constantin Elections Goga Octavian Maniu Iuliu Micescu Istrate ăărescu Gheorghe Carol II King of Romania Cristea Miron Romanian Orthodox Church Siguranţa...
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Questing for Monsters to Destroy
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John Mueller
Published: 28 April 2011
.... In particular, it considers how policymakers addressed questions regarding Germany and Japan, along with the threat of Soviet Communism. It then focuses on threat identification on the domestic front as well as the threats presented by 9/11 and the Korean War of 1950. It suggests that U.S. officials compiled...
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Late Soviet Conservatism
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Paul Robinson
Published: 15 October 2019
... continued to deteriorate. Political opposition to communism grew rapidly, especially among some of the country's non-Russian national minorities. The three Baltic republics demanded independence. The Soviet Union teetered closer to the brink of collapse, triggering a conservative backlash among those...
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Introduction: A Global History of Greek Communism
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Nikos Marantzidis
Published: 15 February 2023
...This introductory chapter provides an overview of Greek Communism. The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was born in a turbulent moment when the Communist world had just begun taking shape. While it originated in 1918 as a typical socialist party, the KKE became one of the European Communist parties...
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Balkan Decisions
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Nikos Marantzidis
Published: 15 February 2023
... Nikos Zachariadis Communist leaders Moscow international Communism Balkans The rank and file of the KKE celebrated the return of Nikos Zachariadis, their legendary leader, and saw in him the hope and the promise that the prospects for Communism in their country could turn bright once again...
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Epilogue
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Nikos Marantzidis
Published: 15 February 2023
..., and the shifting dynamics of the international order. With the approaching end of the Cold War, the Greek Communists experienced their final major crisis in November of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, global Communism everywhere received a fatal blow. As for the KKE...
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The Forgotten Man
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Martin J. Siegel
Published: 15 March 2023
...This chapter looks at how the growing estrangement between Irving Robert Kaufman and J. Edgar Hoover mirrored Kaufman's slow evolution away from law enforcement now that he was on the court of appeals. Fittingly, one of the first examples involved his and Hoover's old obsession: communism. Over...
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NSC-68
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James Graham Wilson
Published: 15 July 2024
... for increased defense spending and framed the struggle against communism as a global battle between freedom and slavery. The chapter highlights Nitze's efforts to have NSC-68 adopted as official US strategy were initially met with resistance from President Harry Truman. It recounts the outbreak of the Korean...
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Published: 15 February 2020
..., and their transformative impact on theater in Argentina is still evident today. Meanwhile, in its crusade against communism, the West German embassy intervened at both stages. Carefully staged depictions of German heritage and reconciliation reflected a specious contrivance, contingent on edited memories of the recent...
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Securitization and Institutional Development
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Tomas Larsson
Published: 10 May 2012
... and how institutional underdevelopment contributed to the dramatic improvement in property rights institutions in the country in response to the twentieth-century threat of communism. Episodes in the Thai case are compared and contrasted with experiences in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines. Albright...
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Combating Specters and Communists
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Tomas Larsson
Published: 10 May 2012
...This chapter examines the impact of the threat of communism on the status quo orientation of the Thai state. More specifically, it considers the ways that the threat of communism stimulated the Thai state to introduce technological, administrative, and legal innovations that paved the way...
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Mikhail Gorbachev and the Late Soviet Period, 1987–1991
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John Van Oudenaren
Published: 15 June 2024
... half of the twentieth century: the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, and the dissolution of the USSR itself. This was also a momentous time for the Library of Congress. The Library hosted Raisa Gorbachev, Sakharov, Likhachev, and other prominent...
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The Fate of European Colonialism and Carl Schmitt’s New World Order
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Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Published: 15 October 2018
... of Christ Europe Germany colonialism exploitation international law liberation movements communism civil war Schmitt’s theoretical transition from a position that remained rather close to the official conception of German foreign policy during the early 1940s to a still-tentative theory of a new...
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The Leaky Derelict
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Kenton Clymer
Published: 12 November 2015
... to the minorities. The Cold War had not yet become entirely globalized, but in Burma, the most important American concern was whether “international communism” would extend its influence into the region. AFPFL Anti Fascist People’s Freedom League Chinese refugees in Burma Cold War containment of communism Nu U...
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China, Communists, and Other Insurgents
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Kenton Clymer
Published: 12 November 2015
...This chapter focuses on the larger question for American policymakers across Asia: how best to withstand the expansion of “international communism.” American policy was formalized in May 1951 with NSC 48/5 and in a more detailed way in February 1952 with NSC 124. The authors of both documents aimed...
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Published: 18 October 2016
... for those unwilling to move forward toward communism. In the end, therefore, even Khrushchev and most top justice officials turned against the “soft line” of justice and became caught up in a renewed campaign against various enemies of socialism. Dubravnyi Corrective Labor Camp Gridin V M humaneness...
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Glory Days
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James McAllister
Published: 15 November 2021
... themes and debates of the Institute were available to anyone with access to daily newspapers. The initial meetings were primarily about Soviet communism, naval disarmament, the future of Europe after the Versailles Treaty, and the conflict between France and Germany. Harry Garfield believed the IOP would...