Reform, Repression and Reaction
Author | : Bruce Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1978* |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bruce Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1978* |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lester R. Kurtz |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815654294 |
Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance. When authorities respond to strategic nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and violence, they often undercut their own legitimacy, precipitating significant reforms or even governmental overthrow. Brutal repression of a movement is often a turning point in its history: Bloody Sunday in the March to Selma led to the passage of civil rights legislation by the US Congress, and the Amritsar Massacre in India showed the world the injustice of the British Empire’s use of force in maintaining control over its colonies. Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon, including the relational nature of nonviolent struggle and the cultural terrain on which it takes place, the psychological costs for agents of repression, and the importance of participation, creativity, and overcoming fear, whether in the streets or online.
Author | : Rob Hornsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107030927 |
Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.
Author | : Kurt Weyland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108483550 |
Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.
Author | : David W. Southern |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005-03-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In this comprehensive, unflinching account, David W. Southern persuasively argues that race was the primary blind spot of the Progressive Movement. Based on the voluminous secondary works produced over the last forty years and his own primary research, Southern’s synthesis vividly portrays the ruthless exploitation, brutality, and violence that whites inflicted on African Americans in the first two decades of the twentieth century. In the former Confederate states, where almost 90 percent of blacks resided, white progressives followed the lead of racist demagogues such as “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman and James Vardaman by consolidating the Jim Crow system of legal segregation and the disfranchisement of blacks, resulting in the emergence of the one-party Democratic South. When legal discrimination did not sufficiently subordinate blacks, southern whites resorted liberally to fraud, intimidation, and violence—most notably in ghastly lynchings and urban race riots. Yet, most northern progressives were either indifferent to the fate of southern blacks or actively supported the social system in the South. Yankee reformers obsessed over the concept of race and became ensnared in a web of “scientific racism” that convinced them that blacks belonged to an inferior breed of human beings. The tenures of both Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote more about race than any other American president, and Woodrow Wilson, who was reared in the Deep South, proved disastrous for African Americans, who reached their “nadir” even as Wilson led the United States on a crusade to make the world safe for democracy. Southern goes on to persuasively reveal that African Americans courageously fought to change the implacably racist system in which they lived, against overwhelming odds. Indeed, it was the rise of the militant “New Negro” during the Progressive Era that provoked much of the anti-black repression and violence. Dr. Southern further examines how the origins of the modern civil rights movement emerged in the wake of the rivalry between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, going beyond an analysis of their leadership to illuminate other important African American activists who held strong views of their own. Finally, an epilogue assesses the malignant racial heritage of the progressives by looking at the discrimination against African Americans, both those in and newly returned home from the armed forces, during World War I and the numerous race riots in northern cities that were in part occasioned by the large-scale migration of southern blacks.
Author | : Chad Pearson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812247760 |
Examining the professional lives of a variety of businessmen and their advocates with the intent of taking their words seriously, Chad Pearson paints a vivid picture of an epic contest between industrial employers and labor, and challenges our comfortable notions of Progressive Era reformers.
Author | : Paul Preston |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Right and left (Political science) |
ISBN | : 9780416357202 |
Author | : Timothy Cheek |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781842777237 |
This book seeks to give the general reader a clear and readable contemporary history of China based on the latest scholarly research. It offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lifeways not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex responses to the consequences of reform in China today. This book will equip the reader to judge media reports independently and to consider the experience and values not only of the Chinese government but China's workers, women, and minorities. This book shows the domestic concerns and social forces that shape the foreign policy of one of the worlds great powers.
Author | : Evgeny Finkel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108847498 |
Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion - not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak states, reform often must be implemented by local actors with a stake in the status quo. In this setting, the promise of reform represents an implicit contract against which subsequent implementation is measured: when implementation falls short of this promise, citizens are aggrieved and more likely to rebel. Finkel and Gehlbach explore this argument in the context of Russia's emancipation of the serfs in 1861 - a fundamental reform of Russian state and society that paradoxically encouraged unrest among the peasants who were its prime beneficiaries. They further examine the empirical reach of their theory through narrative analyses of the Tanzimat reforms of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, land reform in ancient Rome, the abolition of feudalism during the French Revolution, and land reform in contemporary Latin America.
Author | : Ian Haywood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107044219 |
A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.