ISBN:
9780863567711
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1163 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Batatu, Hanna The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq : A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers
DDC:
305.509567
Abstract:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Book One The Old Social Classes -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1: The "Old Social Classes": Practical and Theoretical Clarifications -- Applicability of Concept -- Difficulties of Analysis -- Chapter 2: Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of Their Society, and Their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure -- Chapter 3: The Geographic Distribution of the Principal Racial-Religious Groups and Relevant Causative Factors -- Chapter 4: Some Religious-Class and Ethnic-Class Correlations -- Part II The Main Classes and Status Groups -- Chapter 5: The Mallāks or Landowners -- Chapter 6: The Shaikhs, Aghas, and Peasants -- Chapter 7: The Sādah -- Chapter 8: The Old "Aristocracy" of Officials -- Chapter 9: The Chalabīs and the Jewish Merchants and Merchant-Sarrāfs -- Chapter 10: The Crown and the Ex-Sharīfian Officers -- Book Two The Communists from the Beginnings of Their Movement to the Fifties -- Part I Beginnings in the Arab East -- Chapter 11: The Earliest "Levelers" -- the Armenian Hentchak -- the Jewish Communists -- and the Communist International -- Part II Beginnings in Iraq -- Chapter 12: Husain ar-Rahhā l, as-Sahīfah Group, and at-Taḍāmun Club -- Chapter 13: Pyotr Vasili and the Basrah and Nāsiriyyah Communist Circles -- Chapter 14: The Founding of the Iraqi Communist Party -- Chapter 15: Two Iraqis-Three Sects -- Chapter 16: Beginning again -- or the Communists in the Period of the Coups d'Etat (1936-1941) -- Part III Causes -- Chapter 17: Of the General Causes That Made for the Increase of Communism in the Two Decades before the July Revolution -- Part IV Fahd and the Party (1941-1949) -- Chapter 18: Fahd -- Chapter 19: Toward a Tightly Knit, Ideologically Homogeneous Party
Abstract:
Chapter 20: New Situations, New Approaches -- Chapter 21: The Arrest of Fahd and after -- Chapter 22: Al-Wathbah -- Chapter 23: The Disaster -- the Death of Fahd on the Gallows -- the "Children Communists" -- Chapter 24: Fahd, the Communist International, the Soviets, the Syrian Communists, and the People's Party -- Chapter 25: The Communists and the Question of Palestine -- Chapter 26: The Character, Scope, and Forms of Party Activity -- Chapter 27: The Organization, Membership, and Social Structure of the Party (1941-1949) -- Chapter 28: The Finances of the Party -- Part V The Party in the Years 1949-1955, or the Period of the Ascendancy of the Kurds in the Party -- Chapter 29: Bahī'-ud-Dīn nūrī Rebuilds the Party -- Chapter 30: The Intifadah of November -- Chapter 31: More and More Extremism, Less and Less Sense -- Chapter 32: A Defeat for the Party, or the Birth of the Baghdād Pact -- Chapter 33: A Bit of Forgotten History, or the Tragic Occurrences at the Baghdād and Kūt Prisons -- Chapter 34: A Debate on Religion -- Chapter 35: The Composition of the Party (1949-1955) -- Book Three The Communists, the Ba'thists, and the Free Officers from the Fifties to the Present -- Chapter 36: The Communist Helm Changes Hands, the Communist Ranks Close -- Chapter 37: The New Strong Men of the Communist Party: Husain Ahmad ar-Raḍī, 'Āmer 'Abdallah, and Jamāl al-Haidarī -- Chapter 38: The Ba'th of the Fifties: Its Origins, Creed, Organization, and Membership -- Chapter 39: The Arabization of the Communist Party's View and the Risings at Najaf and Hayy in 1956 -- Chapter 40: The Formation of the Supreme National Committee, February 1957 -- Chapter 41: The Free Officers, the Communists, and the July 1958 Revolution -- Chapter 42: "Sole Leader," Dual Power -- Chapter 43: Mutual Antagonism, Mutual Defeat -- Chapter 44: Mosul, March 1959 -- Chapter 45: The Flow
Abstract:
Chapter 46: Kirkūk, July 1959 -- Chapter 47: The Ebb -- Chapter 48: The Self-Flagellation -- Chapter 49: The Recovery -- Chapter 50: The Bogus Party -- Chapter 51: From Pillar to Post -- Chapter 52: The Ba'thists Make Preparation, the Communists Give Warning -- Chapter 53: "The Bitterest of Years" -- Chapter 54: The Composition and Organization of the Communist Party (1955-1963) -- Chapter 55: The First Ba'thī Regime, or toward One-Party Rule -- Chapter 56: The Younger 'Āref, the Nāsirites, and the Communists -- Chapter 57: Under the Elder 'Āref, or the Rift in the Communist Ranks -- Chapter 58: The Second Ba'thī Regime -- Conclusion -- Chapter 59: Conclusion -- Appendix One. Earliest Bolshevik Activities and Contacts -- A. "O Moslems! Listen to This Divine Cry!" -- B. The Bolsheviks and the 'Ulamā' of the Holy Cities -- C. The Bolsheviks, the Comintern, and the Arab Nationalists -- D. An Overture in Teheran -- Appendix Two. Supplementary Tables -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index I: Names of Families and Tribes -- Index II: Personal Names -- Index III: Subjects
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