Revolution, counterrevolution and assassination after World War II : a global history / Robert C. Cottrell.
| Author/creator | Cottrell, Robert C., 1950- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Imperialism crumbles in the face of Asian nationalism -- The fight for national autonomy continues around the globe -- The Algerian War -- Poking the Russian bear -- De-Stalinization and the Soviet counterrevolution -- The Maoist nightmare -- Challenges to Soviet hegemony -- Coups, guerrillas, the Chilean way, and the disappeared -- The killing fields -- In the heart of Africa -- The Middle Eastern and Central Asian cauldron -- Leading up to 1968 and beyond -- The slaying of America's best, terror on the left and the right -- From the fall of the wall to genocidal wars and people's protests -- September 11, global insurgencies, and the unholy trinity continues. |
| Abstract | "In response to the upheavals engendered by World War II, revolutions broke out or loomed throughout the world. Nationalist aspirations proved global in nature, ironically empowered by the Cold War. In Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, revolutions and counterrevolutions proliferated, and similar disruptions threatened to unfold in Europe and North America. Social upheavals began to occur in Vietnam, Mandatory Palestine, China, Algeria, Ghana and Cuba. Conservative and reactionary forces frequently pushed back, quashing hopeful developments like the Guatemalan Spring, the Hungarian Revolution, and the Prague Spring, while also readily resorting to the murder of leading progressive figures from Gandhi to Navalny. The second volume of this detailed history explores the rippling effects of World War II across the globe, including countries experiencing colonial or neocolonial relationships. This book examines the interplay between modern revolutionary movements and campaigns seeking to prevent such movements or to reestablish a history and time that never really existed. It also traces the deadly resort to politically motivated killings, which cut short the lives of so many distinguished, sometimes beloved figures whose loss is still felt decades later."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024056457 |
| ISBN | 9781476696416 |
| ISBN | 1476696411 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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