The Great Repression

Author : Chitranshul Sinha
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353056186

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The Great Repression by Chitranshul Sinha Pdf

The Indian Penal Code was formulated in 1860, three years after the first Indian revolt for independence. It was the country's first-ever codification of offences and penalties. But it was only in 1870 that Section 124A was slipped into Chapter VI ('Of Offences against the State'), defining the offence of 'Sedition' in a statute for the first time in the history of common law. When India became independent in 1947, the Constituent Assembly expressed strong reservations against sedition as a restriction on free speech as it had been used as a weapon against freedom fighters, many of whom were a part of the Assembly. Nehru vocally opposed it. And yet, not only has Section 124A survived, it has been widely used against popular movements and individuals speaking up against the establishment. Where did this law come from? How did it evolve? And what place does it have in a mature democracy? Concise, incisive and thoughtful, The Great Repression by Chitranshul Sinha, an advocate on record of the Supreme Court of India, tells the story of this outdated colonial-era law.

Author : Lynette H. Ong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : China
ISBN : 9780197628768

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Outsourcing Repression by Lynette H. Ong Pdf

Bulldozers, violent thugs, and nonviolent brokers -- The theory : state power, repression, and implications for development -- Outsourcing violence : everyday repression via thugs-for-hire -- Case studies : thugs-for-hire, repression, and mobilization -- Networks of state infrastructural power : brokerage, state penetration, and mobilization -- Brokers in harmonious demolition : mass mobilizers, mediators, and huangniu -- Comparative context : South Korea and India.

Author : Andrew Kolin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498524032

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Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States by Andrew Kolin Pdf

This book explores the political economy of labor repression and expands the meaning of repression by looking at the relation of politics to economics throughout the course of US history. It explains how and why this relation leads to the repression of labor and considers how it develops over time from the social relation of capital and labor.

Author : Shannon Cuthrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0986360708

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The Great Repression by Shannon Cuthrell Pdf

Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300156225

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Policing Stalin's Socialism by David R. Shearer Pdf

Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.

Author : Steven Feldstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057497

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The Rise of Digital Repression by Steven Feldstein Pdf

"A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book" -- dust jacket.

Author : B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230523937

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Stalin’s Terror by B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott Pdf

The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

Author : Paulo Drinot,Alan Knight
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376248

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The Great Depression in Latin America by Paulo Drinot,Alan Knight Pdf

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different countries while noting common cross-regional trends--in particular, a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial to the region's subsequent development. The book also examines how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic crisis. Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora, Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe, Doug Yarrington

Author : Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political persecution
ISBN : 0896086461

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Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall Pdf

For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change. Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, with Ward Churchill.

Author : Mr.Etibar Jafarov,Mr.Rodolfo Maino,Mr.Marco Pani
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513512488

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Financial Repression is Knocking at the Door, Again by Mr.Etibar Jafarov,Mr.Rodolfo Maino,Mr.Marco Pani Pdf

Financial repression (legal restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations) was widely used in the past but was largely abandoned in the liberalization wave of the 1990s, as widespread support for interventionist policies gave way to a renewed conception of government as an impartial referee. Financial repression has come back on the agenda with the surge in public debt in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, and some countries have reintroduced administrative ceilings on interest rates. By distorting market incentives and signals, financial repression induces losses from inefficiency and rent-seeking that are not easily quantified. This study attempts to assess some of these losses by estimating the impact of financial repression on growth using an updated index of interest rate controls covering 90 countries over 45 years. The results suggest that financial repression poses a significant drag on growth, which could amount to 0.4-0.7 percentage points.

Author : Stéphane Courtois
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0674076087

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The Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois Pdf

This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.

Author : Professor Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472413789

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Little 'Red Scares' by Professor Robert Justin Goldstein Pdf

Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. The interlude between these two major scares has tended to garner less attention, but as this volume makes clear, the lingering effects of 1919-20 and the gathering storm-clouds of 'McCarthyism' were clearly visible throughout the 20s and 30s, even if in a more low-key way. Indeed, the period between the two great red scares was marked by frequent instances of political repression, often justified on anti-communist grounds, at local, state and federal levels. Yet these events have been curiously neglected in the history of American political repression and anti-communism, perhaps because much of the material deals with events scattered in time and space which never reached the intensity of the two great scares. By focusing on this twenty-five year 'interim' period, the essays in this collection bridge the gap between the two high-profile 'red scares' thus offering a much more contextualised and fluid narrative for American anti-communism. In so doing the rationale and motivations for the 'red scares' can be seen as part of an evolving political landscape, rather than as isolated bouts of hysteria exploding onto - and then vanishing from - the political scene. Instead, a much more nuanced appreciation of the conflicting interests and fears of government, politicians, organised labour, free-speech advocates, employers, and the press is offered, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to better understand the political history of modern America.

Author : Kelly Hignett,Melanie Ilič,Dalia Leinarte,Corina Snitar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0367884577

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Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Kelly Hignett,Melanie Ilič,Dalia Leinarte,Corina Snitar Pdf

Introduction -- Women's experiences of 1937 : everyday legacies of the purges and the great terror in the Soviet Union -- Victims and collective trauma : surviving mass repression and living through the Soviet period -- Women's experiences of repression in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 -- Women's experiences of 1956 : student protesters and partisans in Romania.

Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135026691

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Political Repression in 19th Century Europe by Robert Justin Goldstein Pdf

Originally published in 1983. The nineteenth century was a time of great economic, social and political change. As Europe modernized, previously ignorant and apathetic elements in the population began to demand political freedoms. There was pressure also for a freer press, for the rights of assembly and association. The apprehension of the existing elites manifested itself in an intensification of often brutal form of political repression. The first part of this book summarizes on a pan-European basis, the major techniques of repression such as the denial of popular franchise and press censorship. This is followed by a chronological survey of these techniques from 1815 – 1914 in each European country. The book analyzes the long and short-term importance of these events for European historical development in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Paul Hagenloh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078796904

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Stalin's Police by Paul Hagenloh Pdf

Stalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh’s vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin’s peculiar brand of policing—in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order—supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.