In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism. But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant and (had they but known it) historically doomed people? Like a non-magical version of the wizards of J. K. Rowling's world, they lived secretly with and parallel to the non-communist majority, sometimes persecuted, sometimes ignored, but carrying on their own ways and traditions. Where others went to church they went to Socialist Sunday School, society's up was their down and its heroes were their villains. Who wanted American TV when you could have Russian movies? A memoir of early life among communists, Party Animals first took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories of belief and action. But there was much more to it. He found himself studying the old secret service files, uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence as a party animal. Only then did he begin to understand what had come before - both the obstinate heroism and the monstrous cowardice. And the elements that shape our fondest beliefs.
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• al-juzʼ
• 1. 1934-1958.
• al-juzʼ
• 2. 14 Tammūz
• 1958- 8 Shubāṭ
• 1963.
• al-juzʼ
• 3. 8 Shubāṭ 1963-18 Tishrīn al-Thānī
• 1968.
• al-juzʼ
• 4.
• 18 Tishrīn al-Thānī 1963-17/30 Tammūz
• 1968.
• al-juzʼ
• 5. 17/30 Tammūz
• 1968- 1978/1979.

• Prologue
• The Shiʻites and Grand Liban
• Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle
• Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state
• The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq
• Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left
• Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah
• The Islamists and civil society
• The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state
• Conclusion.

The complex history of Lebanese Shi`ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi`i society. The authors trace the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi`ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. They shed light on the relationship of contemporaryIslamic militancy with traditions of religious modernism and leftism in both Lebanon and Iraq. Analyzing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi`ite society, the authors clearly follow the group's turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism. This book transforms our understanding of twentieth-century Lebanese history and demonstrates how the rise of Hizbullah was conditioned by Shi`ites' consistent marginalization and neglect by the Lebanese state.
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• Prologue
• The Shiʻites and Grand Liban
• Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle
• Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state
• The "Shiʼite communist, " the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq
• Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left
• Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah
• The Islamists and civil society
• The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state
• Conclusion.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Cold War and Contemporary Understandings of the Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia
• Part 2 Part I: Czech Intellectuals Enter the Postwar World
• Chapter 3 World War II and the East European Revolution
• Chapter 4 Intellectuals in the Czech Environment
• Chapter 5 Four Groups of Czech Intellectuals
• Part 6 Part II: The Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Czech History and the Reorientation of the Czech Nation
• Chapter 7 The Communist Aim: The Creation of a New Czechoslovakia
• Chapter 8 The Battle Over the Recent Past I: The Experiences of Munich and World War II
• Chapter 9 The Battle Over the Recent Past II: The First Republic and Toma? G. Masaryk
• Chapter 10 The Shift in Sensibilities and Generations: May 5, 1945 Versus October 28, 1918
• Chapter 11 The Reorientation of National Identity: Czechs Between East and West
• Part 12 Part III: The Meaning of Socialism
• Chapter 13 Socialism and Communist Intellectuals: The "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism"
• Chapter 14 Socialism and Democratic Socialist Intellectuals: The "New Socialist Ethos"
• Chapter 15 Socialism and Roman Catholic Intellectuals: The "Fateful Struggle between Spirit and Matter"
• Chapter 16 Socialism and Protestant Intellectuals: The "Kingdom of God on Earth"?
• Chapter 17 Conclusion: The End of Czechoslovak Democracy and the Rise of Communism in Eastern Europe.
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This original study revisits the critical historical and cultural debates in Czech society immediately following World War II. Bradley F. Abrams discovers that communist public figures were largely successful in controlling the discourse over the nation's recent past_the interwar First Republic and the experiences of Munich and World War II_and over its location on the East-West continuum. This success was later mirrored in the struggles over socialism, the burning political issue of the time. The communists engaged their political foes in the democratic socialist and Roman Catholic camps, and, surprisingly, found significant support from a major Protestant church. The author's careful reading of major publications of the day vividly recreates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, thus casting doubt on the standard view of the communists' rise to power. A rich contribution to our understanding of Czech history, this book also raises provocative questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, the communist takeover of the region, and the role of intellectuals in public life.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Cold War and Contemporary Understandings of the Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia
• Part 2 Part I: Czech Intellectuals Enter the Postwar World
• Chapter 3 World War II and the East European Revolution
• Chapter 4 Intellectuals in the Czech Environment
• Chapter 5 Four Groups of Czech Intellectuals
• Part 6 Part II: The Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Czech History and the Reorientation of the Czech Nation
• Chapter 7 The Communist Aim: The Creation of a New Czechoslovakia
• Chapter 8 The Battle Over the Recent Past I: The Experiences of Munich and World War II
• Chapter 9 The Battle Over the Recent Past II: The First Republic and Toma? G. Masaryk
• Chapter 10 The Shift in Sensibilities and Generations: May 5, 1945 Versus October 28, 1918
• Chapter 11 The Reorientation of National Identity: Czechs Between East and West
• Part 12 Part III: The Meaning of Socialism
• Chapter 13 Socialism and Communist Intellectuals: The "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism"
• Chapter 14 Socialism and Democratic Socialist Intellectuals: The "New Socialist Ethos"
• Chapter 15 Socialism and Roman Catholic Intellectuals: The "Fateful Struggle between Spirit and Matter"
• Chapter 16 Socialism and Protestant Intellectuals: The "Kingdom of God on Earth"?
• Chapter 17 Conclusion: The End of Czechoslovak Democracy and the Rise of Communism in Eastern Europe.
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This original study revisits the critical historical and cultural debates in Czech society immediately following World War II. Bradley F. Abrams discovers that communist public figures were largely successful in controlling the discourse over the nation's recent past_the interwar First Republic and the experiences of Munich and World War II_and over its location on the East-West continuum. This success was later mirrored in the struggles over socialism, the burning political issue of the time. The communists engaged their political foes in the democratic socialist and Roman Catholic camps, and, surprisingly, found significant support from a major Protestant church. The author's careful reading of major publications of the day vividly recreates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, thus casting doubt on the standard view of the communists' rise to power. A rich contribution to our understanding of Czech history, this book also raises provocative questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, the communist takeover of the region, and the role of intellectuals in public life.
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• A confirmação do programa do Partido Comunista Português.--A pressuposta base científica desse programa.--O que é o comunismo--Portugal, rumo ao comunismo?

• Contents: Foreword 7
• 1: Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective 10 Marx's view of religion 12 Religion and radicalism today: liberation theology 16 Religion and radicalism today: Islamic fundamentalism 23 For a Marxian comparative sociology of religions 28 Political conclusions 35
• 2: Orientalism in Reverse: Post-1979 Trends in French Orientalism 40 "Orientalism in reverse" 41 Post-1979 French Orientalists 45 French "Orientalism in reverse" 47 The meanderings of French "Orientalism in reverse" 56
• 3: Marx, Engels and "Orientalism": On Marx's Epistemological Evolution 68 Said's Orientalism and its Marxist critique 68 Orientalism, essentialism and idealism 73 Marx and Engels' radical break with historical idealism 78 Were Marx and Engels Eurocentric? 82 The political/epistemological evolution of Marx and Engels 88 Critical Marxism and Orientalism 96
• 4: Marxism and Cosmopolitanism 103 Four conceptions of cosmopolitanism 103 Marx and Engels' initial conception of cosmopolitanism 107 The maturation of Marx and Engels' conception of cosmopolitanism 116 Cosmopolitanism and internationalism 123 "Cosmopolitanism" after Marx and Engels: Kautsky, Gramsci and the Comintern 128 "Cosmopolitanism" as anathema: the Stalinist perversion 134 Cosmopolitanism and "globalisation" 144 Bibliography and References 165.
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In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; "Orientalism in reverse", which can take the form of an apology for Islamic fundamentalism; the evolution of Marx's appraisal of non-Western societies; and the vagaries of "cosmopolitanism" up to our present era of globalisation. Erudite and incisive, these essays provide a major contribution to the critical discussion of Marxism, Orientalism and cosmopolitanism, and illuminate the relationships between all three.
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In 1919, when J. Edgar Hoover was 24 years old, a New York City postal clerk discovered sixteen bombs wrapped in individual packages America's first instance of homegrown terrorism. Then-Attorney General Palmer vowed a crackdown and enlisted Hoover as his deputy. Amid the hysteria, details of abuses emerged, Palmer fell, and the rise of J. Edgar Hoover began. Hoover's drive to gain immense power, as well as his coolness and calculation, is explored in Young J. Edgar. With the Palmer raid a as a lens through which to view the terrorhysteria of post-9/11 America, Young J. Edgar reaches the heart of our modern debate over personal freedom in a time of war and fear.
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