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Spreading Anti-Communism Among Elites? Public Diplomacy, Transnational Intellectual Exchange, and the Journal Problems of Communism

European Journal of American Studies
This paper explores Problems of Communism, a journal initially launched in 1952 by the International Information Administration (IIA) and later managed by the United States Information Agency (USIA) until 1992, when it was renamed Problems of Post ...
Alice Ciulla
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Book “Masters of Deceit” by J. Edgar Hoover as an Ideological Basis of the Concept of “Red Scare” and Anti-Communism in the USA

Научный диалог, 2019
The article is devoted to the formation of the image of such a phenomenon as the “Red Threat” in the literary work of FBI Director John Edgar Hoover. It is affirmed that a special position in the US executive power system, along with a certain popularity
Y. A. Levin, S. O. Buranok
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Parting the bamboo curtain: The enigmatic political and strategic quest of Richard Nixon for detente with Communist China

, 1996
President Richard Nixon\u27s decision to unofficially recognize Communist China during the early 1970s represented an apparently sudden political and strategic turnabout for both he and the United States.
Harrison, Ian C
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Greek anti-communism from the perspective of anti-communist legislation (1917–1967)

Neograeca Bohemica, 2020
This article deals with the issue of anti-communism in Greece with a special focus on the anti-communist legislation introduced between 1917 and 1967. These legislative measures were part of a broader anti-communist campaign that affected various areas ...
Nikola Karasová
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Contemporary Russian Identity between East and West [PDF]

, 2005
This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how ...
Duncan, PJS
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Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
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From “Under the Shadow of Death”: Choosing the Left as a Life Option

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2017
Drawing on scholarship on transnationalism, this paper resorts to concepts such as “trans-ethnic identity” and “multiple social identities” for making sense of two autobiographical writings authored by scholars who articulated a leftist counter-memory in
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Contested Architecture: The ‘Woba’ Residential Colony in Basel, 1930

Urban Planning, 2019
In 1930, a housing exhibition called ‘Woba’ took place in the city of Basel. Unique for Switzerland, the commercial aspect of the furniture industry was complemented by a newly constructed residential colony.
Rhea Rieben
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