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The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

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Editors:
  1. Christian Gerlach

    1. Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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  2. Clemens Six

    1. Department of History, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  • Global case studies explore the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, taking a broad approach to twentieth-century resistance against communism
  • Advances research on anti-communism by showing how these ideas and ideologies were put into practice
  • Takes a comparative perspective, highlighting patterns in policies, practices and agents of anti-communist persecutions and the conditions of societies in which these took place

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Anti-Communist Persecutions in the Twentieth Century

    • Christian Gerlach
    Pages 1-27

  3. Policies and Practices of Persecution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Smith Act Trials and Systemic Violence: Anti-Communist Persecution and Prosecution in America, 1949–1957

      • Barbara J. Falk
      Pages 31-49

    3. The Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Leftist State Persecution in Modern Japan

      • Frank Jacob
      Pages 51-75

    4. Franco’s Anti-Communist Judicial System: Results and Solutions of Spanish Transitional Justice

      • Daniel Vallès Muñío
      Pages 77-95

    5. Laboratories of the Conditio Humana: The Role of Communism in Greek and Argentine Torture Centers During Their Last Military Dictatorships

      • Janis Nalbadidacis
      Pages 97-116

    6. Maoist Insurgency and the State’s Counterinsurgency in India: An Anti-Anti-Communist Historical Perspective

      • Bernard D’Mello, Gautam Navlakha
      Pages 117-161

    7. Getting Hold of a Universe of Conspirators: Anti-Communist Panic, Fears of Subversion, and the Routine of Repression in Senegal’s Early Postcolonial Secret Police (the Sûreté), 1962–1965

      • Alexander Keese
      Pages 163-181Open Access

  5. Anti-Communist Persecution and New Models of Capital Accumulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Killing Communists: Stalinist Repression and the “Great Terror” in the Soviet Union

      • Wendy Z. Goldman
      Pages 265-282

    3. Nation-Building as Anti-Communist Violence: The Armed Forces in Cold War Argentina

      • James H. Shrader
      Pages 283-311

  6. The Role of Non-State Actors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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    2. Non-state Anti-Communism and Political Violence in Argentina and Uruguay, 1958–1973

      • Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Magdalena Broquetas
      Pages 315-327

    3. The Religious Justification of Anti-Communist Persecutions in Greece (1920–1949)

      • Amaryllis Logotheti
      Pages 329-345
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About this book

This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world. It advances research on anti-communism by looking beyond ideologies and propaganda to uncover how these ideas were put into practice. Case studies examine the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, and cover a range of topics, including social crises, capitalist accumulation and dispossession, political clientelism and warfare. Through its comparative perspective, the handbook reveals striking similarities between different cases from various world regions and highlights the numerous long-term consequences of anti-communism that exceeded by far the struggle against communism in a narrow sense. Contributing to the growing body of work on the social history of mass violence, this volume is an essential resource for students and scholars interested to understand how twentieth-century anti-communist persecutions have shaped societies around the world today.

Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Christian Gerlach

  • Department of History, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Clemens Six

About the editors

Christian Gerlach is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a global historian whose research covers Nazi Germany and World War II, comparative mass violence, and the history of food, hunger and development policies. He is author of The Extermination of the European Jews (2016), Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (2010), The Last Chapter: Realpolitik, Ideology and the Murder of Hungarian Jews (with Götz Aly, 2002), Calculated Murder: The German Economic and Extermination Policy in Belarus (1999) and War, Food, Genocide: Studies on the German Extermination Policy in World War II (1998). His publications have appeared in eleven languages.


Clemens Six is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include politics and religion in 20th century Southand Southeast Asia, transnational secularism studies, global intellectual history since 1945, and the history of international development cooperation. He is the author of Secularism, Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and South East Asia (2018) and Spectacular Politics: Performative nation-building and religion in modern India (2010).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

  • Editors: Christian Gerlach, Clemens Six

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54963-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54962-6Published: 08 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54965-7Published: 09 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54963-3Published: 07 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 596

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Labor History, Political History, Modern History, Social History, Political Philosophy

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