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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"anti-communism"”.
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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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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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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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Red scare Britain: anti-communism in British government and politics during the early Cold War, 1945-56
This thesis examines governmental and political anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War. It seeks to understand how domestic anti-communism exhibited itself in different facets of the British nation including state policies, political rhetoric, party politics, and the trade union …
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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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"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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GLI STATI UNITI E LA DESTRA ITALIANA NEGLI ANNI CINQUANTA
… the delicate balance between democracy, anti-communism and anti-fascism. Among the issues raised, three are the main ones. First of all, we cannot consider the United States and right as monolithic blocks. Inside there are a number of differences in cultural background and political …
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Imagination Movers: The Creation of Conservative Counter-Narratives in Reaction to Consensus Liberalism
… or more, many historians have claimed that both anti-communism and capitalism kept conservatives working in cooperation. My contention was that the intellectual founder of postwar conservatism, Russell Kirk, made imagination, and not anti-communism or capitalism, the thrust behind that movement …
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Clare Boothe Luce and the 1953--1954 Trieste crisis
… of the Cold War in terms of aggressive anti-Communism against the Soviet Union in general and against Yugoslavia in particular, determined her actions during the Trieste negotiations. As a very powerful woman in the Eisenhower administration, Luce managed to make her voice heard on the …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… of American exceptionalism, hyper-Capitalism, anti-communism, nuclear anxiety, and militarism through exaggerated symbols of Americana. This thesis posits that Fallout serves as a critique of Cold War America's paradoxical utopianism and paranoia, highlighting the destructive consequences of …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… associated Jewry with the horrors of Soviet Communism and sought revenge, security, and resistance against Stalinism. The Germans provided an opportunity to fight against the Soviet Union in 1941, entailing the mass murder of Eastern European and Soviet Jews with the mobile killing units of …
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A influência do Papa João Paulo II na queda do regime comunista na Polônia.
… to the shift in its foreign policy towards an anti-communism policy that contributed to the fall of the Polish communist regime. Will be used methods for the analysis of the role of individuals in the decision making process and focus on the person of the Pope John Paul II as an international …
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Strategies for multicultural cities : overcoming barriers to effective planning and community development in three Vietnamese American communities
… identified include: the "Generation Gap," anti-Communism and conflicts over homeland politics, lack of experience and exposure to traditional American non-profit and civic engagement structures, lack of linguistic and cultural competency on the part of planners, and lack of funding and …
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Willing and Unable: Civil Defence and Biopolitics in Post-War Toronto, 1948-1951
… simultaneously being influenced by homegrown anti-communism and jingoism. The history of Toronto’s civil defence program was often contentious and dramatic, as the political actors involved struggled to balance ideological aims against material realities. These struggles expose the …
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"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
… activism sheds light on the ways in which anti-communism worked to disrupt, marginalize, and dampen the effect of challenges to white supremacy.</p><p>The project makes extensive use of archives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Life in Harlem, which houses the archives of …
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Reading the tea leaves : the Tea Party movement, the conservative establishment and the collapse of climate change legislation
… zeal from the 1773 Boston Tea Party anti-tax protest, emerged in response to the Obama Administration's economic stimulus package and later coalesced around opposition to universal health care, union collective bargaining rights, and raising the debt ceiling. In a less visible …
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Juggling with three identities: Ideology of Yugoslavism among the American Serbs (1900--1993)
… and the identification with American Cold War anti-communism among the majority of the American Serbs. This trend of proud American patriotism was briefly but sharply reversed as many American Serbs experienced a conflict of loyalties during the American bombing of Serbia in 1999.</p>
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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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Regional Identities and Dynamic Normative Orders in the Global South: A Comparative Study
… of ASEAN, an organization founded on anti-communism at the height of the Cold War. Pan-Americanism’s liberal commitments to representative democracy and human rights—espoused by independence leaders and carried forth by Latin American jurists and diplomats—became embedded in …
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Teaching about communism in the public schools : problems, pressures and the politics of a proposed state-required course in Texas.
Teaching about communism in the public schools has not always been deemed advisable. Only in recent years has there been a noticeable change in public opinion. Today, there is widespread support for the public schools to teach about communism. Organizations which once vehemently opposed the subject …
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