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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Anti-Communist"”.
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Tracing Anti-Communist Nation-Building in South Korea
<p>Anti-communism has always been the cornerstone of South Korea’s national identity. The Rhee government, the very first of the post-Independence era, created the basis for anti-communist state-building. This thesis focuses on how the South Korean and the U.S. governments succeeded in …
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Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980
… isolationism and New Deal opposition to strict anti-communism. The conservatism of the 1920s through the 1940s, under the leadership of Robert Taft, would give way to a more modern conservatism influenced by a variety of Catholic and anti-communist intellectuals. As a result of the effort to …
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Australian cold warrior : the anti-communism of W. C. Wentworth
This thesis is a case study of the Australian anti Communist W. C. Wentworth. His wide range of associations and interests makes Wentworth an ideal subject. It will examine his anti-Communism and the various ways it manifested itself in his thoughts, policies and actions over his long political …
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Charlie Wilson's First War: Challenging Carter's Human Rights Policy through his Support for Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 1977-79.
… argues that Wilson was motivated by his personal anti-Communist beliefs to challenge the perceived biased application of the Carter Administration's human rights policy against the Somoza regime. He saw the administration's abandonment of Nicaragua, a traditional Cold War ally after four decades …
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The Voice of America and the Republican Cold War, 1945 to 1953
… My dissertation shows how Republicans used the anti-communist consensus to define and promote domestic aims that were in place before the containment strategy was articulated.
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Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers
… strikers themselves, to explore the role that Communists played in the strike along with how the workers responded the Communism and other political ideologies of the day. The final chapter then examines the many anti-Communist forces that surrounded the autoworkers before, during, and after …
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The role of Britain in Greek politics and military operations 1947-1952
… extension of British interest in bolstering the anti-Communist fight of the Greek government. In 1947 Britain, being itself on the verge of economic collapse, opted to discontinue financial support to the Greek right-wing government, which boosted the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in March …
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China-Taiwan Rivalry for ‘Representational Legitimacy’ among the 'Third Force' of Afro-Asia, 1949-1971
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) defeated the Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party) and founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The KMT was thus forced to flee to Taiwan, but it continued its symbolic territorial claim to the mainland over which it no longer held effective …
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The story that cannot be told: nine chapters of historical fiction with a craft essay
… final few months of Nicolae Ceauşescu's reign in Communist Romania. Ten-year-old Ileane's uncle has been captured by the Securitate after publishing anti-communist poetry. When her father discovers their apartment is bugged, he destroys his daughter's life's work—a Great Tome of stories—and sends …
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"The Highest Type of Disloyalty": The Struggle for Americanism in Louisiana During the Age of Communist Ascendency, 1930s-1960s
… change. The paper illustrates how the issue of anti-communism was used as a political tool on the national level, and this tactic would trickle down to the state and local level, specifically into the public school systems. Focusing on Orleans Parish public schools, the narrative of red-baiting …
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Syngman Rhee's efforts in the United States to promote Korean independence from 1904 to 1945
… Korea. Rhee was a prominent Korean nationalist, anti-communist, and first President of South Korea. Chapter One (1904-1918) examines how Rhee began his fight for Korean independence after consequential events in Korean history. Chapter Two (1919-1938) looks at Rhee's activities as a principal …
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In the Name of the People: Yugoslav Cinema and the Fall of the Yugoslav Dream
… the dissertation validates the egalitarian, anti-imperialist Yugoslav idea and offers a take on the countrys demise that is free of Balkanist stereotypes and anti-communist paranoia common to most discussions of Yugoslavias end. It counters the view of Yugoslavia as a dictatorship which …
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Transnational Migration and Political Exile in Laos
… globalization, modernization, economic reform, communist takeover, anti communist, desire, discontent, American dream
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Anglicanism, anti-communism and Cold War Australia
… Fisher, adopted a decidedly conservative and anti-communist stance. The visits of Dean Hewlett Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II and Dr Billy Graham throughout the 1950s saw the reinforcement of that stance. The next Lambeth Conference, in 1958, displayed a realisation that some form of negotiation …
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From Displaced Persons to Exiles: Nationalism, Anti-Communism, and the Shaping of Latvian American Diaspora
… discourses of nationalism, transnationalism, and anti-Communism are analyzed through the lens of Latvian-language exile periodicals. These are conceptualized as a transnational space, a locus of intersection of diasporic, national and hybrid, and sometimes competing identities. Building on …
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Malaysian worldmakers in the age of decolonisation, 1950s-1970
… was a group of state actors whose Anglophile and anti-communist profiles had facilitated their rise to power. Turning to the platform of international institutions, these leaders competed, cooperated, and clashed with their counterparts across the North-South divide in their quest to correct …
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Telling the Soviet redemption story: Ronald Reagan’s changing Soviet rhetoric
… itself as the world’s guardian against communist encroachment. The second chapter is concerned with Reagan’s pre-presidential Soviet rhetoric from his position as the Screen Actors Guild president through his failed presidential campaign run in 1976, and it establishes the decades-long …
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Control of Internet search engines in China -- A study on Google and Baidu
… opposition parties, political process in Taiwan, anti communist, independence movements, illegal religious movements; cultural/moral factors which include sex and homosexuality, health, violence; and economic factors. Among these factors, Chinese government has blocked most political/religious and …
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