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Monthly Review, 2015
Lenin, Bukharin, Stalin, and Trotsky in Russia, as well as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Den Xiaoping in China, shaped the history of the two great revolutions of the twentieth century. As leaders of revolutionary communist parties and then later as leaders of revolutionary states, they were confronted with the problems faced by a triumphant revolution in ...
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Lenin, Bukharin, Stalin, and Trotsky in Russia, as well as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Den Xiaoping in China, shaped the history of the two great revolutions of the twentieth century. As leaders of revolutionary communist parties and then later as leaders of revolutionary states, they were confronted with the problems faced by a triumphant revolution in ...
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Imperial Crises, Imperial Diplomacy
2015This chapter examines how the Dalai Lama's departure from Lhasa sparked a crisis and caused the People's Republic of China to change from empire-lite to a harder, heavier imperial structure. When the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, it resulted in a flurry of rebellions across Tibet and revealed the weakness of the Chinese state in the region.
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Chapter 1 analyzes common tropes—the “graveyard of empires,” the Great Game, a place of disease and squalor—used to describe Afghanistan in order to highlight the ways in which memory-making and representation have contributed to mystifying the country and its peoples.
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Imperial and Post-imperial Backgrounds
1998The notion of a multi-cultural Britain denotes, as we saw in the last chapter, recognition of the existence of a citizenry composed by people of different colours and celebrating a diversity of cultures. But this has been so for only the last three decades at the very most, and it is not universally embraced.
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Analyzing the documentary, performative, and poetic interventions made by contemporary Afghan and diasporic Afghan artists Naseer Turkmani, Aziz Hazara, and Laimah Osman to interrogate the legacy of US military occupation in Afghanistan, Chapter 13 argues for an understanding of the material and psychic remainders of US imperialism as a site of ...
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