War Monuments, Public Patriotism, and Bereavement in Russia, 1905–2015
War Monuments, Public Patriotism, and Bereavement in Russia, 1905–2015

Author: Aaron J. Cohen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1498577482

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This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and local memorials in the 1960s after a half century of instability, contestation, and absence. The author shows how monument builders responded to a need from the population to share an accessible war experience apart from the exclusive Bolshevik memorial culture. He argues that this development of war commemoration has amplified the role of war hero memorialization as an anchor of public stability and social solidarity in Putin’s Russia, where there is little consensus about the past, present, or future.

U. S. Policy Considerations on the 40th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising and the Dalai Lama's Flight Into Exile
U. S. Policy Considerations on the 40th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising and the Dalai Lama's Flight Into Exile

Author: Benjamin A. Gilman

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2001-02

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 0756707056

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Hearing held by the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. Witnesses include: Julia Taft, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, & Migration, U.S. Dept. of State; Professor Robert Thurman, Columbia University; Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; Ken Knaus, Central Intelligence Agency, retired; & Steve Marshall, Tibet Information Network, London.

The March of Patriots
The March of Patriots

Author: Paul Kelly

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 0522857388

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Unveiling the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia, this record presents these two personalities as conviction politicians, tribal warriors, and national interest patriots. Divided by belief, temperament, and party, they were united by generation, city, and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalized age. The making of policy and the uses of power are explored, capturing the authentic nature of Australian politics as distinct from the polemics advanced by both sides. Focusing on how these prime ministers altered the nation's direction, this study also depicts how they redefined their parties and struggled over Australia's new economic, social, cultural, and foreign policy agendas. A sequel to the author’s bestselling The End of Certainty, this survey is based on more than 100 interviews with the two key players as well as other politicians, advisers, and public servants.

Patriots and Tyrants
Patriots and Tyrants

Author: Ross Marlay

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780847684427

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This innovative text explores the extraordinary personal and political lives of ten leaders who profoundly changed twentieth-century Asian history. China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia are interpreted through the lives of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Mohandas Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Norodom Sihanouk, Pol Pot, Sukarno, and Suharto. Some recast their countries by force of arms, others by the power of their ideology. Some were born into poverty, others into privilege. Some were democrats, some autocrats, some communists. But however great their differences, each can claim to be an authentic nationalist. Using a biographical approach, this book will stimulate students to think about the relationship between political leadership and nationalism.

Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels
Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

Author: Elvin C. Bell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-12-08

Total Pages: 809

ISBN-13: 1491752149

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Senator Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy had just lost the 1968 presidential primary election in Oregon to Senator Eugene McCarthy when Elvin Bell, Fresno, California's Mayor Pro Tem, hosted him for a breakfast meeting. As an exhausted Kennedy approached the podium to speak, Bell watched in amazement as Kennedy transformed from a frail man into a powerful speaker. Moments later as Bell rose to his feet with other audience members in a rousing standing ovation, he had no idea that he would never see his friend Bobby again. Bobby was shot the next day in Los Angeles and died within hours. Bell, a retired public official and USAF colonel, shares a compelling compilation of anecdotes that highlight the iconic personalities he has known and worked with during his assignments in the White House and the Pentagon, as well as during official foreign travels and various activities throughout America. In addition to the everyday characters and scoundrels he has encountered in his lifetime, he features nearly eighty personalities that include Gregory Peck, John Wayne, John Lennon, Eleanor Roosevelt, General Alexander Haig, Frank Sinatra, and Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. In this fascinating memoir, a former political figure takes a look back at the true-life characters he has encountered and how they made a difference in his life and the world.