The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

Gerlach, Christian; Six, Clemens (eds.) (2020). The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-54963-3

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This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world. It advances research on anti-communism by looking beyond ideologies and propaganda to uncover how these ideas were put into practice. Case studies examine the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, and cover a range of topics, including social crises, capitalist accumulation and dispossession, political clientelism and warfare. Through its comparative perspective, the handbook reveals striking similarities between different cases from various world regions and highlights the numerous long-term consequences of anti-communism that exceeded by far the struggle against communism in a narrow sense. Contributing to the growing body of work on the social history of mass violence, this volume is an essential resource for students and scholars interested to understand how twentieth-century anti-communist persecutions have shaped societies around the world today.

Item Type:

Book (Edited Volume)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History > Zeitgeschichte

UniBE Contributor:

Gerlach, Christian

Subjects:

900 History > 940 History of Europe
900 History > 950 History of Asia
900 History > 960 History of Africa
900 History > 970 History of North America
900 History > 980 History of South America

ISBN:

978-3-030-54962-6

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan

Language:

English

Submitter:

Hans Christian Gerlach

Date Deposited:

17 May 2021 10:49

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:50

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/978-3-030-54963-3

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/155070

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