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Author: Masha Kirasirova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0197685706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Eastern International traces how the concept "East" (Vostok) was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It highlights the roles played in this process by Jewish activists, Arab intellectuals, and Central Asian politicians and artists.
Author: Masha Kirasirova
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Published: 2024
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197685730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Eastern International is a study of how the concept of "the East" was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to organize space and to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It is a story of how various intermediaries tried to shape the global conversation about decolonization in an effort to build support and win global legitimacy for the Soviet Union as an anti-colonial state power. They succeeded in this task because the ideas of anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and liberation from colonial exploitation inspired so many around the world. Recontextualizing Soviet history within a global frame, my project shows how the USSR popularized critiques of capitalism, fascism, and colonialism through propaganda, education, cultural relations and later, through political and economic aid in international "Eastern" regions, as it all the while concealed other inequalities and forms of exploitation, including in its "domestic East." By telling these stories while concealing others, these mediators contributed to the marginalization of the Soviet Union from conversations about cultural and political decolonization happening in the Middle East and elsewhere. My book reinscribes Soviet history into postcolonial studies and global history"--
Author: Paul Ernest Roberts
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Hodgkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-21
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1009411632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how Persianate poetics and communist internationalism brought together 20th-century writers from across Eurasia.
Author: Denis Wright
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1985-12-31
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781850430025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James H. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-03-07
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0192698966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language, Nâzım Hikmet's dramatic life story is fascinating in its own right, but also intersects with the story of the broader twentieth century. James H. Meyer situates Nâzım Hikmet within the broader context of Turkish communist "border-crossers," individuals whose lives would go on to be shaped significantly by their ability, inability, or need to traverse the frontier. Born at the turn of the twentieth century and coming of age in the early 1920s, the women and men from Nâzım Hikmet's generation were the last of the Ottomans. Children of empire, they had grown up in an era of porous frontiers, but by the time they reached their third decade, these borders had begun to close. Drawing upon an enormous amount of previously untapped archival materials and personal papers from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC, Meyer has written a biography of Nâzım Hikmet unlike any other. A book of world history wrapped inside a life story, Red Star over the Black Sea shows how changing attitudes toward borders and the people who cross them impacted a late imperial generation all the way up to the final years of the Cold War.
Author: Harry Thurston Pech
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Z. Laqueur (Dec'd)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-07
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000434842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1959, The Soviet Union and the Middle East attempts to shed light on the evolution of Soviet attitudes toward the Middle East, its problems, challenges, and opportunities since 1917. Divided into two parts, the first part "The Soviet Image of the Middle East" presents an investigation into the sources of Soviet policy in that area, while the second part "The Great Breakthrough" explores the political, social, and economic conditions in the Middle East. The volume discusses themes like storm over Asia, the arms deal, the year of Suez, the Syrian Crisis of 1957, Soviet trade and economic aid (1954-1958), Soviet cultural policy and the intellectual climate in the Arab world, communism in the Middle East (1955-1958) and communism and Arab nationalism, to ask larger questions like did the Soviet Communists expect the revolutionary events in Asia? Were they instrumental in bringing them about or did they occur quite independently? This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political history, international relations, West Asian Studies, Russian Studies, and history of communism.
Author: Anthony Carty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0191649015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of ideas on rule of law for world order is a fascinating one, as revealed in this comparative study of both Eastern and Western traditions. This book discerns 'rule of law as justice' conceptions alternative to the positivist conceptions of the liberal internationalist rule of law today. The volume begins by revisiting early-modern European roots of rule of law for world order thinking. In doing so it looks to Northern Humanism and to natural law, in the sense of justice as morally and reasonably ordered self-discipline. Such a standard is not an instrument of external monitoring but of self-reflection and self-cultivation. It then considers whether comparable concepts exist in Chinese thought. Inspired by Confucius and even Laozi, the Chinese official and intellectual elite readily imagined that international law was governed by moral principles similar to their own. A series of case studies then reveals the dramatic change after the East-West encounters from the 1860s until after 1901, as Chinese disillusionment with the Hobbesian positivism of Western international law becomes ever more apparent. What, therefore, are the possibilities of traditional Chinese and European ethical thinking in the context of current world affairs? Considering the obstacles which stand in the way of this, both East and West, this book reaches the conclusion that everything is possible even in a world dominated by state bureaucracies and late capitalist postmodernism. The rational, ethical spirit is universal.
Author: Uri Bialer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-02-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0521362490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Bialer describes the internal debates within the Israeli political parties on the choices between pro-Soviet, pro-Western or non-aligned foreign policies.
