Overview
- Global case studies explore the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, taking a broad approach to twentieth-century resistance against communism
- Advances research on anti-communism by showing how these ideas and ideologies were put into practice
- Takes a comparative perspective, highlighting patterns in policies, practices and agents of anti-communist persecutions and the conditions of societies in which these took place
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Policies and Practices of Persecution
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Anti-Communism in the Context of Nation-Building, Race and Religion
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Anti-Communist Persecution and New Models of Capital Accumulation
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The Role of Non-State Actors
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Clemens Six is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include politics and religion in 20th century Southand Southeast Asia, transnational secularism studies, global intellectual history since 1945, and the history of international development cooperation. He is the author of Secularism, Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and South East Asia (2018) and Spectacular Politics: Performative nation-building and religion in modern India (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions
Editors: Christian Gerlach, Clemens Six
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54963-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54962-6Published: 08 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54965-7Published: 09 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54963-3Published: 07 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 596
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Labor History, Political History, Modern History, Social History, Political Philosophy