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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Bolshevism"”.
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… hegemony using narratives involving women and Bolshevism during the aftermath of the First World War. These narratives were a response to a perceived crisis of gender related to the women’s suffrage movement and new roles created for women during the war. I argue that the popular press helped …
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Factional strife and policy making in the Bolshevik Party 1912-April 1917: with special reference to the Baltic fleet organisations 1903-17
… own middle echelon leaders inside Russia that Bolshevism was distinct from Menshevism. This proved difficult before August 1914. The War made the distinction clearer, but also gave rise to an international tendency, with support inside the Bolshevik Party, to the Left even of Lenin. Inside …
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Punishment and social structure: reactionary Bourbonism and the social origins of Progressive Era death penalty reinstatment
… variable present in the previous study (anti-Bolshevism) previously underrepresented in the empirical data sets earlier researchers used. The central premise of this thesis is that problems specifying the site of social origins of these actions appear to dissolve when one employs a theory of …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
… literature as a focal point for discussions of Bolshevism and revolution. In their depiction of ex-servicemen, these novels adapt conventions of archetypal romantic heroism to suit a period wherein heroes were imagined as returning from rather than leaving for war. Bolshevizing Britain moves …
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The Tories and the Soviets: the British conservative reaction to Russia, 1917-1927
… were violently hostile toward the "bogey " of Bolshevism and that, therefore , Tory governments were persistently hostile toward Soviet Russia. Conservatives dominated British politics during the interwar period and played a major role in formulating western policy toward the Bolsheviks. Thus …
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The White International: anatomy of a transnational radical revisionist plot in Central Europe after World War I.
… nations. It set as its goals the destruction of Bolshevism in all its guises throughout Europe, the restoration of the monarchy in Russia, the systematic elimination of all Entente-sponsored Successor States and the declaration of war on the Entente. Archival documents, memoirs and other sources …
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They will not be the same: themes of modernity in Britain during World War I
… by one aspect of the British response to Bolshevism. Interwoven throughout this study are both some of the poetry of the Great War and examples from the trilogy of Richard Hannay novels. In this manner it is possible to observe fragments of social change which occurred during World War I; …
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The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War
… officials of the Nazi state, vowed to destroy Bolshevism and Jewish populations. By examining letters from soldiers to family members on the German home front as well as letters from families to the men on the front lines, a better understanding of the motivations of war is revealed. Letters of …
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Roland Freisler (1893-1945): An Intellectual Biography
… much-repeated claim that he had “converted” to Bolshevism. The second chapter (1920-1922) provides a close reading of his doctoral dissertation and early academic work. The close collaboration with his supervisor, Justus Wilhelm Hedemann, as well as stellar grades paved the ground for a stellar …
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Confronting the challenge of socialism: the British Empire Union and the National Citizens’ Union 1917-1927
… BEU in combating the alleged menace of ‘British Bolshevism’. It assesses the importance of the NCU in the events leading to the collapse of the Coalition government in October 1922; and its role in strikebreaking. It looks at how both organisations had a part in the development of Conservative …
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The foundations of antisemitism in South Africa : images of the Jew c.1870-1930
… followed by the association of Jews with Bolshevism, consolidated the anti-Jewish stereotype. In the context of the post-war economic depression and burgeoning black radicalism, the eastern European Jew emerged as the archetypical subversive. Thus the Rand Rebellion of 1922 could be …
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British foreign policy in Azerbaijan, 1918-1920
… mood on the ‘streets’ of Baku and the appeal of Bolshevism to the many of the local population. When the Bolsheviks finally took control of Azerbaijan in 1920 they did so with the support of significant sections of the population. This thesis suggests that developments in Azerbaijan during this …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
This study identifies and analyzes native collaboration in the Baltic States with Nazi Germany, specifically the SS Einsatzgruppen, during the outbreak of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe from 1941-42. It attempts to argue that ordinary citizens in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were active and …