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The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq by Tareq Y. Ismael

By Tareq Y. Ismael

This is often the 1st entire paintings to envision the advanced transformation of the Iraqi Communist celebration from leading edge actor lower than Iraq's conservative monarchy to rearguard lackey less than U.S. career. The Communist celebration of Iraq used to be at the beginning fostered via Iraq's embryonic intelligentsia as an method of nationwide liberation through the interval of British domination. by way of 1963, the conservative Baath social gathering had quashed the Communist celebration, killing its individuals or sending them into exile. depending on the Soviet Communist social gathering, the Iraqi Communist celebration floundered until eventually the U.S. executive took it lower than its wing within the 2003 profession.

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Ajj, 1993), p. 147. 9:23 P1: KAE 9780521873949c01a CUNY916/Ismael The Party in the 1940s 978 0 521 87394 9 August 27, 2007 9:23 31 ˆ . alah . aidarˆı, his brother Jamal . aidarˆı, H . amˆıd Uthman, 136 ˆ Yunus. The period 1940–1944 witnessed Fahd’s unification of the Party, his increasing public exposure, and a newfound public presence for the ICP. Opposition to Fahd was dismissed as jealousy or personal ambition, and as showing little sophistication in Marxist theory or general political understanding.

For a detailed breakdown of known ICP membership in the 1940s by occupation, ethnicity, gender, and age, see Batatu, Old Social Classes. 9:23 P1: KAE 9780521873949c01a CUNY916/Ismael 978 0 521 87394 9 August 27, 2007 The Party in the 1940s 9:23 27 drawn to fascist groups, and their Party loyalty was shallow. Therefore it is not surprising that the Party exhibited ideological confusion and a tendency towards fragmentation; a number of splits soon occurred. ˆ In December 1940, the Party began to publishing its new organ, Al-Shararah (The Spark), which was modelled on Lenin’s publication of the same name.

Khairˆı and Khairˆı, Diras . izb a-Shiyuˆ ıˆ al- Iraqˆ Ibid. ˆ ˆ (Cairo: Institute of Higher Arab Studies, 1955), p. 124. afah Rafa fˆı al- Iraq P1: KAE 9780521873949c01 CUNY916/Ismael 20 978 0 521 87394 9 August 27, 2007 The Communist Party of Iraq ˆ organized in 1934, ˆ . at al-Isti mar ˆ wa al-Istithmar, group Lajnat Mukafah ˆ disciples. al’s ˆ . afaˆ Alˆı, Awnˆı Bakr ˆ brother-in-law), Salˆım Fattah ˆ . alih ˆ . al’s H usain Jamˆ ı l, and Rashˆ ı d Mut laq, all of whom subsequently became prominent .

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