ENGLISH

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq

By Tareq Y. Ismael

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521873940, 9780521873949, 9780511367649
LCC
JQ1849.A98 S4937 2008
Open Library ID
OL10438025M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2622744 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
352\352
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This is the first comprehensive work to examine the complex transformation of the Iraqi Communist Party from vanguard actor under Iraq's conservative monarchy to rearguard lackey under U.S. occupation. The Communist Party of Iraq was initially fostered by Iraq's embryonic intelligentsia as an approach to national liberation during the period of British domination. By 1963, the conservative Baath party had quashed the Communist Party, killing its members or sending them into exile. Dependent on the Soviet Communist Party, the Iraqi Communist Party floundered until the U.S. government took it under its wing in the 2003 occupation.

Similar books