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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Communists"”.
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‘Ye Olde Englishe Communists’: Popular Front Historians and the Left, 1936-1940
This thesis examines the historical practices of the left-wing Popular Front cultural movement in Britain in the late 1930s, as well as their relationship to more established British historical traditions. To achieve this, it draws on a collection of written historical works, public performances …
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Negotiating Jewish victimhood at Majdanek: reluctant communists, political flux, and Nazi guilt
This thesis explores how questions of Jewish victimhood at the Nazi concentration and death camp Majdanek were negotiated by Poles and Soviets during the immediate post-liberation period in Lublin from July to October, 1944. After liberating eastern Poland, the Soviets established the Polish …
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Sun Yat-Sen's political thought and its influence on Chinese Nationalists and Communists
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1966 L735
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Sun Yat-Sen's political thought and its influence on Chinese Nationalists and Communists
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1966 L735
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Dialectic of Disillusionment: The Political Thought of Ex-Communists, c. 1929 - c. 1939
This thesis uses an ex-communist network to offer a new perspective on interwar Marxism. I focus on a network that formed in the early 1930s, composed of intellectuals that defected from the international communist movement in the 1920s. Some of its principal figures are Karl Korsch, Arthur …
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ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… the memes and discourse of authoritarian communists, an analysis of how authoritarianist communists define authoritarianism. I selected these communities and events to observe the workings of 21<sup>st</sup>-century authoritarianism to understand how fringe ideologies reflect the structure …
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Communists vs. Conservatives and the Struggle for the Hungarian Soul in Canada, 1940-1989
… within Canada’s Hungarian communities between communists and nationalist conservatives. Both sides in this conflict struggled for ownership of Hungarian national symbols and the right to be seen as the “true” guardians of Hungarian identity in Canada. While religious differences between Roman …
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“What sort of communists are you?” The struggle between nationalism and ideology in Poland between 1944 and 1956
… with the communist project. Firstly, the communists effected a demographic change that resulted in a near monoethnic state. Simultaneously, they introduced a centrally planned economy, transformed state symbolism, initiated a national education system, attempted to reshape popular …
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Tangled up in red: The Smith Act, Cold War repression, and the trials of Communists in New York and Detroit
… the 1952 Smith Act prosecution of six Detroit communists shows that Cold War anticommunism in the United States was not uniform; instead, it was shaped by local political contexts. While some New York communist leaders had ties to Soviet intelligence, they were ultimately prosecuted for their …
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From <italic>Massenlieder<italic> to <italic>Massovaia Pesnia<italic>: Musical Exchanges between Communists and Socialists of Weimar Germany and the Early Soviet Union
… and borrowings between the early Soviet communists and their counterparts in the Weimar Republic, and explore the effects of musical propaganda on the working classes of both countries. I see my research as a mediation of existing Soviet and Weimar music scholarship.</p>
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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 development and nature of Chinese communism : the early years, to 1925
… pertinent to this period are examined: the communists 1 concept of the collaboration with the Kuomintang, the nature of the national revolution and the role of leadership, and the peasant policies. Finally, as the Chinese leadership embraced communism partly because of their consciousness of …
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The development and nature of Chinese communism : the early years, to 1925
… pertinent to this period are examined: the communists 1 concept of the collaboration with the Kuomintang, the nature of the national revolution and the role of leadership, and the peasant policies. Finally, as the Chinese leadership embraced communism partly because of their consciousness of …
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The Educated Spectator: Cinema and Pedagogy in France, 1909-1930
… antagonistic -- republicans, Catholics, Communists, and the first film avant-garde known as the Impressionists -- set out to redefine cinema by focusing particularly on shaping film viewers. To do so, these movements adopted similar strategies: they organized lectures and film clubs, …
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The Foreign Office and policy-making in China, 1945-1950 : Anglo-American relations and the recognition of Communist China
… consider their relationship with the Chinese communists. Different views of Mao's communism, and different policy objectives in China, consequently led the British to move away from the American position. The thesis demonstrates such differences had actually existed since 1945, and charts the …
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The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: Impact and Repercussions, 1941-48
… this proto-state by the MPAJA, coupled with the communists’ acquisition of jungle-fighting weapons from SOE and their actions during the lawless period following the Japanese surrender, provides clear insights into the long-term ambitions of the Malayan Communist Party. However, the reports …
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… seductive power of nationalism, including the Communists. It argues that the mixedness of marriages between members of different ethnic groups becomes socially relevant only at moments of ethnic polarization, reflecting the episodic nature of ethnicity itself. The episodic character of …
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The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
In early February of 1939, hundreds of German communists counted among the international volunteers who suffered a crushing rout in what proved their final campaign on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. In the wake of this defeat, which seemed to cast doubt on the viability of …
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What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
… into one big story of the so-called '(((communists')))' plot to manufacture a 'white genocide.'
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