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Author:   Philip B. Minehan (California State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781350229792

ISBN 10:   1350229792
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 June 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction and Historical Background Introduction Historical Background in Europe to 1871: The Problem of the Left and the Liberal Solutions Part I: The Failed Solutions: Imperialism, the Great War, Fascism, Anti-Bolshevism, and World War Two. Introduction Chapter 1: “1871-1917: The Imperial Solution” 1.a: “The Example of Colonial India and the South Asian Diaspora” Chapter 2: The Fascist Solution: From Anti-Socialism and Anti-Bolshevism to another World War, 1917-1939”: Chapter 3: “World War Two: From Anti-Communism to Anti-Communism, 1939-1945” Part II: The US-led Global Anti-Communist Solution Introduction Chapter 4: “Soft on Social Democracy, Hard on ‘Communism’: Britain, the US, Greece, China, Korea and Indochina” 1. Britain and the United States: 12 pages 2. Anti-Communism in Greece: 5 pages 3. Anti-Communism in China, Korea and Indochina a. China b. Korea c. Indochina Chapter 5: “Cold War Bipolarities versus Complex Realities: Examples from Africa and the Middle East” 1. British and US Anti-Communism in Parts of Sub-Saharan Africa 2. Algeria 3. The Middle East: Fighting the Cold War, Planting Seeds for the ‘War on Terror’ Chapter 6: “Anti-Leftist Politics in Western Europe, Latin America and the United States to the 1970s” 1. Western Europe: Anti-Communism and Social Democracy 2. Latin America: The United States and Anti-Reformist Anti-‘Communism’ 3. The Course and Character of Anti-Leftist Politics in the United States to the 1970s 4. Conflicting Global Currents: Leftist Upsurge, Economic Downturn and the Shift to Neo-Liberalism Part III: The Neoliberal Solution Chapter 7: “Overkill” 1. Neo-Liberal Rollback in Latin America: Operation Condor and the Contras 2. Iran, Afghanistan and the Coming War on Terror 3. The New Model in Full Force: Globalized Capitalist Production and its Political Consequences 4. The Collapse of the Soviet Union 5. Post-Cold War US-led Political and Military Triumphalism Summary and Conclusion Epilogue: The Pathology, the Pandemic and the Prospects Bibliography Index

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Not since Hobsbawm have we seen such conceptual history. Anti-Leftist Politics by Philip Minehan shows that the efforts to wipe out socialism constituted the underlying cause of the tragedies of the twentieth century. The book is especially relevant to our day, as right-wing populism targets socialism for elimination. * Stephen Miller, Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA *

Not since Hobsbawm have we seen such conceptual history. Anti-Leftist Politics by Philip Minehan shows that the efforts to wipe out socialism constituted the underlying cause of the tragedies of the twentieth century. The book is especially relevant to our day, as right-wing populism targets socialism for elimination. --Stephen Miller, Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Author Information

Philip B. Minehan is Lecturer in Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, USA. He was previously part of the history department at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA, and is the author of Civil War and World War in Europe (2006).

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