... at the close of the decade. It incorporates nontitularminorities into the history of Azeri nation-building in the 1950s. Azerbaijan SSR Beria Lavrentiy Ibragimov Mirza Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich Mustafayev İmam Dashdamir oglu Ragimov Sadıq Hajiyarali oglu Communist Party of the Soviet Union double...

...This introductory chapter explains that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state building but also nation building, which required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Amdo Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community...

...This chapter cites Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit's The Spirit of Cities, which revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. Bell and de-Shalit wrote of the nation-building spirit embedded in Singapore, the ambition that characterizes...

...This chapter reviews the Del Be Del network's mission in Tehran, shaped by the interdependent relationship between American evangelicals, US global power, and Pahlavi nation-building. This relationship is akin to musical “counterpoint,” where distinct voices contribute to the same composition while...

... weakened the rebels' nation-building efforts. civilian Iran revolutionary victimization certification collaborator imperialism Kurds nation building rebel Baghdad Pact colonialism counterinsurgency Iraq Middle East northern Iraq Öcalan Abdullah regional Treaty of Mosul Turkey United...

...This book concludes by discussing the legacy of the Galles family and their kin in the areas of nation building and civic leadership. It shows how kinship contributed to French nation building in the nineteenth century and provided the glue binding a national bourgeoisie, and explains how...

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.... These projects represented three distinct perspectives and analyses of the pressing issues facing South Vietnam. They are examples of how groups of private individuals attempted to contribute to nation building. Ultimately, each project was unique in its vision, approach, and experience. All three endeavors...

... age of national political and literary historiography, and of nation building in general. The Russian example reveals with particular clarity the contradictions between immutability and innovation, universality and specificity that have lain at the heart of modern conceptions of artistic tradition...

...This epilogue addresses the first months following the February Revolution of 1917 as the moment when nation-building aspirations peaked and when the artistic milieu celebrated native traditions as foundational for post-imperial cultural development. The understanding of the revolution...

.... Nonetheless, the chapter reveals that there was much more to the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) than its involvement in a war. Central to its story were the collective efforts of many men and women dedicated to nation building. As such, the chapter also explores the challenges of nation building in the RVN. Armed...

... that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building, but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As the book shows, however, early efforts to gradually...

...This introductory chapter looks into the catholic work of nation-building. It explains how Catholics worked in the years following the Civil War to entrench their claim to belonging in the American nation. Despite their conflicts with Protestants, Catholic missionaries, bishops, and laypeople...

... struggle has become widespread in society, as many South Koreans have lost interest in embracing industrial workers as an essential component of nation-building. democracy movement gendered power relations in labor movement Great Workers’ Struggle 1987 irregular workers minju democratic union movement...

..., is a snapshot of the modern Georgian nation-building project, even if the site was created and largely populated in the Soviet era. The chapter shows how the example of the Mtatsminda Pantheon revealed a longer-term, evolving conversation about “dead body politics” in Georgia that closely paralleled projects...

...This chapter investigates how newly endowed Soviet institutions of nation-building gave form to nationalizing aspirations of local- and republic-level actors in Georgia, from party cadres to academics. The chapter particularly looks at the three parallel attempts by Soviet Georgian officials...

... between now-independent states. For this purpose, non-Russian versions of Eurasianism inspired by Gumilev proved very useful. No less important are the needs associated with “nation-building” within the numerous post-Soviet polities themselves: their self-representation (or invention) as coherent...

... defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954 bolstered the American Century, yet officials could not ignore the growth of radical nationalism, as represented by Jacobo Árbenz Guzmân in Guatemala, Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt, and nations present at the Bandung Conference in April 1955. Nation-building offered one...

...” and turned Philadelphia into a place with a robust complex of institutions grappling with the challenges and opportunities posed by industrialization. It also discusses the Sellers's role in nation building and metropolis building during the period, as well as their investments in education with an eye...

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