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The politics of atrocity and reconciliation : from terror to trauma.
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ISBN: 0415274133 9780415274135 Year: 2002 Volume: 34 Publisher: London Routledge

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Violence and politics
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ISBN: 1315023407 1136701257 9781136701252 1299978460 9781299978461 041593110X 9780415931106 0415931118 9780415931113 9781315023403 9781136701320 9781136701399 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contending with Stalinism
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ISBN: 1501717294 9781501717291 0801439833 9780801439834 0801487749 9780801487743 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ithaca

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Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by myths of Russian fatalism and submission as well as by the very real powers of the Stalinist state are startled by the dimensions of popular resistance under Stalin.Narratives of such resistance are inherently interesting, yet the topic is also significant because it sheds light on its historical surroundings. Contending with Stalinism employs the idea of resistance as a tool to explore what otherwise would remain opaque features of the social, cultural, and political history of the 1930s. In the process, the authors reveal a semi-autonomous world residing within and beyond the official world of Stalinism. Resistance ranged across a spectrum from violent strikes to the passive resistance that was a virtual way of life for millions and took many forms, from foot dragging and negligence to feigned ignorance and false compliance. Contending with Stalinism also highlights the problematic nature of resistance as an analytical category and stresses the ambiguous nature of the phenomenon. The topics addressed include working-class strikes, peasant rebellions, black-market crimes, official corruption, and homosexual and ethnic subcultures.

Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780192801685 9780191538926 0191538922 0585486115 9780585486116 1280374861 9781280374869 6610374864 0192801686 9786610374861 0192801686 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism, and whether democracy is especially vulnerable to terrorist attack. It examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence, and the success of specific terrorist and anti-terrorist campaigns in the more distant as well as the recent past.


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The politics of atrocity and reconciliation : from terror to trauma
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ISBN: 1134479611 1280288817 9786610288816 1435628233 0203361644 9781435628236 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Humphrey examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. This book provides a theoretical and comparative analysis of the legacies of violence for social reconstruction.

Anti-American terrorism and the Middle East
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ISBN: 1281346918 9786611346911 0198035713 9780198035718 019515715X 9780195157154 9781281346919 6611346910 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a stunned public asked: How could this happen? Why did the attackers do what they did? What did they hope to accomplish? This wasn't the first battle in a conflict that has included bombings of U.S. embassies and planes, the Iran hostage crisis, and kidnappings or shootings of American citizens. This unique volume sets out to answer these questions using the unfiltered words of the terrorists themselves. Over many decades, radical forces in the Middle East have changed and evolved, yet their basic outlo

Hijacking and hostages : government responses to terrorism
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ISBN: 0313012229 9780313012228 0275974685 9780275974688 1280422785 9781280422782 9786610422784 6610422788 Year: 2002 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger,


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