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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Popular Front"”.
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‘Ye Olde Englishe Communists’: Popular Front Historians and the Left, 1936-1940
… 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 and other media …
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Civilian victimisation in the Tajik civil war: how the popular front won the war and ruined the nation
… to the Tajik civil war and its victor, the Popular Front of Tajikistan (PFT). Its central findings from the case study are: 1) The PFT victimised civilians primarily via targeted violence, displacement and criminality; 2) PFT victimisation of civilians was a rationalist strategy given that …
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947
… Party USA had started organizing a left-liberal Popular Front with architects figured as a vanguard of the professional class. Over the following decade, this network challenged the increasingly hegemonic suburban model of housing. This included labor unions like the Federation of Architects, …
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White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929--1952
… affiliation was part of a broader cultural front, which emerged from the radical left engagement with the liberal center during the period known as the Popular Front. Within public libraries this front promoted strategies of collective action to engage social issues. The result was not only …
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Leon Blum: Socialist and French Premier During the Spanish Civil War
… from the perspective of dissension within the Popular Front itself. Lacouture argues, for example, that since the Communist Party refused to participate in the cabinet, Blum's political stand depended on alliance with the more moderate Radical Party. When one considers that the two most …
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Slaying the Dragon: An Analysis on How to Dismantle Terrorist Organizations
… Shinrikyo, the Irish Republican Army, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman will illustrate each policy. Furthermore, details of how each of these policies work will be demonstrated. </p><p> Furthermore, for a state to decide on which policy may be most beneficial, the organization …
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Food labeling systems and Consumers’ Decision making
… decisions. Although research suggests that front-of-pack labeling is an effective means of informing consumers about healthier food options, no single labeling system has proven successful in this regard. The absence of a definitive labeling system ideal for all purposes makes it challenging …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… life, even if it also meant challenging their popular-front vision of solidarity. “The Radical South” moves chronologically through Freedom Summer and the 1960s to early eighties “third world” feminism. In my first chapter, the Free Southern Theater, an integrated theater group established in …
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The Dialectical Object: John Heartfield 1915 - 1933
… also often been understood as straightforward "popular front" propaganda and the accomplished embodiment of the "dialectical" method that were significant aspects of the cultural policy of the official left. There have been few attempts to work through the formally innovative aspects of …
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A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda
… Revolution, the rise of the Nazis, the French Popular Front, World War II, and the Cold War, to declare the centrality of psychologically based propaganda as a fundamental, epoch-shifting characteristic of the modern age. Thus, my main argument throughout this study is that the centrality …
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
… principle, rooted in the leftist values of the Popular Front of the 1930s and 1940s, that music is a social, participatory experience accessible to all, not the preserve of a professionalized elite, but everyone’s birthright. This dissertation explores the processes and means—cultural, …
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The Sheffield peace movement 1934-1940.
… reference to Communistinspired efforts to form a Popular Front of socialist and liberal groups. The Anglican Church leadership provided a strand of <i>pacificism</i> difficult to distinguish from defencism but nevertheless crucial to the position of the majority of the movement at the outbreak of …
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"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
… on the Left, but it failed to create a wider Popular Front from pro-Republicanism. The Labour Party, mindful of Catholic voters' views and suspicious of Communism, was publicly cautious, although its newspaper was pro-Republican. Long standing divisions on the Left were not exacerbated by the …