War and Communism : The Violent Consequences of Ideological Warfare in the 20th Century / Tobias Hirschmüller, Frank Jacob

• HerausgeberIn: Hirschmüller, Tobias; Jacob, Frank
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: War (hi)stories ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

From a global perspective, the historical relationship between war and communism throughout the 20th century is discussed in this book.Communist theory was supposed to lead to a classless society that would thereby overcome nationalism, imperialism, violence, and eventually war itself. Regardless of the theoretical assumption that a communist utopia would end wars forever, communism very often related to war, not only in a theoretical sense, but also in the actual historical process. How communist theorists interpreted war, argued for or against it and tried to sanction the use of violence in the name of a communist utopia are questions for this anthology about an “unnatural interrelationship”. At the same time, the contributions of this volume take a closer look at violent responses against communism during the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Chapter 1 War and Communism in the Age of Extremes: An Introduction / Frank Jacob and Tobias Hirschmüller -- Chapter 2 A Revolutionary Theory of Peace / Vladimir Dobrenko -- Chapter 3 Edwin Hoernle: Communist Education and Revolutionary Antimilitarism / Sebastian Engelmann -- Chapter 4 Fighting for Bolsheviks … Against the Communists: The Goals, Motivations and Political (Dis)Orientation of Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Soldiers during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) / Rafał Mieczkowski -- Chapter 5 Communist War Against Religion and the Rise of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 1917–1939 / Marianna Napolitano -- Chapter 6 The Birth of the Gulag? A Global Contextualization of the Cheka’s Concentration Camp Practices during the Russian Civil War / Guillaume Minea-Pic -- Chapter 7 “Political Power Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun”: Communist Policies on Mobilizing Armed Masses in Wartime China / Lei Duan -- Chapter 8 Communism and its Implications in the Governance of Xinjiang / Emily Upson -- Chapter 9 “Do it like Chapaev!” A Superstar Soviet Movie Character as a Template for the “New” Republican Soldier during the Spanish Civil War / Edouard Sill -- Chapter 10 Postcolonial Socialism in the Arab World: The Algerian Example / Viktoria Luise Gräbe -- Chapter 11 The SS and the Ideological War Against Judeo-Bolshevism: The Case Study of Das Schwarze Korps, 1935–1945 / Frank Jacob -- Chapter 12 The Beginning of the Conquest of “ Lebensraum ” as a “Day of Liberation” from Bolshevism: 22 June 1941 and its National Socialist Commemoration and Remembrance / Tobias Hirschmüller -- Chapter 13 Once They Were Heroes: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Communist Party in the Wake of the Second World War / Yusuke Suzumura -- Contributors -- Index.