The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107405219)

This is the first comprehensive work to examine the complex transformation of the Iraqi Communist Party from vanguard actor under Iraq's conservative monarchy to rearguard lackey under U.S. occupation. The Communist Party of Iraq was initially fostered by Iraq's embryonic intelligentsia as an approach to national liberation during the period of British domination. By 1963, the conservative Baath party had quashed the Communist Party, killing its members or sending them into exile. Dependent on the Soviet Communist Party, the Iraqi Communist Party floundered until the U.S. government took it under its wing in the 2003 occupation.

Author: Tareq Y. Ismael
ISBN-10: 1107405211
ISBN-13: 9781107405219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2012
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d