• Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Introduction PART I - THE SONGS AND THEIR CREATORS
• Chapter 1 THE SONGS OF THE WAR YEARS: Themes, Tunes, and Trends Prewar Songs and Their Influence Blitzkrieg: The Early War Songs Farewell to Normality: The Early Lyrical Songs War Is Here To Stay: Songs about Wartime Life Victory on the Horizon: The Tone Shifts Victory Becomes a Reality Chronologies, Shifts, and Variations in The Wartime Songs
• Chapter 2 THE SOLDIERS OF THE SONG FRONT: Composers and Poets during the War The Composers The Poet-Lyricists Relations between Composers and Poets Remuneration: Contracts and Contests Amateur Song Writing Critiques and Debates on Song
• Chapter 3 COMMAND AND CONTROL: Official Policy and Institutional Responsibility over Song The Creative Unions Party and State Structures Trade Unions and Other Organizations Military Involvement Censorship Control International Relations and the Arts Conclusions PART II - SONG DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION
• Chapter 4 PRINT, PLASTIC, AND SOUND WAVES: Mass Media and Song Distribution Songbooks and Other Musical Publications Newspapers Radio Records Film Conclusions
• Chapter 5 BALL GOWNS AND BOMBS: Performers and Brigades in Battle and at Home Diversity and Quantity of Performance Groups The Response to War The Experience of War: Brigade Travel, Performances and Living Conditions At the Front In Home Towns In the Rear Working Together PART III - SONG RECEPTION AND LEGACY
• Chapter 6 FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK: Song in Everyday Life Audience and Memory Children's Experiences Home Front Adult Experiences Song at the Front The Power of Song
• Chapter 7 THE LEGACY OF THE WAR SONGS The Audience The State Fans and Idols Song Function The Legacy in the Body Post War Images of Freedom Conclusion Bibliography
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2 Appendix 3.
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A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fresh recruits spontaneously standing and doffing their caps to a new song, thereby creating the new wartime anthem. This well researched, multi-faceted book depicts the relationship between song and society during WWII in the USSR. Chapter topics range from the creation and distribution of the songs to how the public received and shaped them. The body of song that came out of that era created a true cultural legacy which reflected both the hearts of the individuals fighting as well as the narrative of the party and state in bringing the nation to victory.
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• Global news networks and state power
• Western global news networks and state power
• 1: diplomacy
• Western global news networks and state power
• 2: intelligence
• Non-western global news networks: diplomacy and intelligence gathering
• Conclusion
• Interview with Terry Phillips
• Methodology.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Compliance and resistance under autocracy
• State- and nation-building in Iraq, 1973-1979
• War burden and coalitional politics, 1980-1991
• Political implications of economic embargo, 1991-2003
• Collaboration and resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Political orientation and Ba'th Party participation
• Rumors as resistance
• Religion, identity, and contentious politics
• Military service, militias, and coup attempts
• Conclusion.

A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new way of understanding the behavior of other authoritarian regimes and their populations. Drawing on archival material captured from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'th Party in the wake of the 2003 US invasion, Blaydes illuminates the complexities of political life in Iraq, including why certain Iraqis chose to collaborate with the regime while others worked to undermine it. She demonstrates that, despite the Ba'thist regime's pretensions to political hegemony, its frequent reliance on collective punishment of various groups reinforced and cemented identity divisions. At the same time, a series of costly external shocks to the economy--resulting from fluctuations in oil prices and Iraq's war with Iran--weakened the capacity of the regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of Iraqi society. In addition to calling into question the common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen regime opponents.
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Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about conflict deserves in the formation of American strategy in coming decades. The author offers a historical perspective to show that armed conflict between organized political groups has been mankind's constant companion and that America must remain prepared to use its military power to deal with an unstable, uncertain, and fractious world. Williamson Murray shows that while there are aspects of human conflict that will not change no matter what advances in technology or computing power may occur, the character of war appears to be changing at an increasingly rapid pace with scientific advances providing new and more complex weapons, means of production, communications, and sensors, and myriad other inventions, all capable of altering the character of the battle space in unexpected fashions. He explains why the past is crucial to understanding many of the possibilities that lie in wait, as well as for any examination of the course of American strategy and military performance in the future-and warns that the moral and human results of the failure of American politicians and military leaders to recognize the implications of the past are already apparent.
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• Is America still the “hope of Earth”? : origins and underpinnings of American exceptionalism / Paul E. Peterson
• Legal origins of American exceptionalism / Michael McConnell
• American exceptionalism : due principally to secure private property rights / Gary Libecap
• Intellectual property as a pillar of American exceptionalism / Stephen Haber
• The exceptional economy / Edward P. Lazear
• Law and the regulatory state / John Cochrane
• Whither American exceptionalism? / Niall Ferguson
• What makes America great? : entrepreneurship / Lee Ohanian
• American dominance of the international order / Kori Schake
• The foundations of America’s exceptional role in the world / Victor Davis Hanson
• Herbert Hoover and American exceptionalism / George H. Nash
• Ronald Reagan and American exceptionalism / Annelise Anderson
• The American dream is alive in the minds of young Americans / William Damon.

An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba's revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three democratically elected leaders remained in all of Latin America. This perceptive study, coauthored by a revered historian and a prominent economist, examines how the military rulers of Brazil profoundly altered the nation's economy, politics, and society during their two decades in power, and it explores the lasting impact of these changes after democracy was restored. Comparing and contrasting the history, programs, methods, and goals of Brazil's Cold War-era authoritarian government with the military regimes of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, authors Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna offer a fascinating, detailed analysis of the Brazilian experience from 1964 to 1985, one of the darkest, most difficult periods in Latin American history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300223316 20170515