S-21 as a Liminal Power Regime: Violently Othering Khmer Bodies into Vietnamese Minds

The article analyzes the structure, scripts, and procedural logics behind the violent practices in S-21, the central prison of the Khmer Rouge, as a liminal power regime. The institution’s violent practices and operations served to reveal a “Vietnameseness” and/or otherness within the victims and to prove not only their guilt regarding a singular crime but also a long history of treason and collaboration with the Vietnamese, as well as a moral shortcoming that put them outside their own imagined Khmer moral universe and made them part of a larger scheme. The initial and—for the ideology of the revolution—problematic sameness of the victims needed to be reshaped into a profound otherness in terms of thinking, lifestyle, and biography. The process of interning, torturing, and turning subjects into enemies in S-21 (and beyond) resembled a transformative ritual, a violent and enforced rite of passage into a new symbolic status.

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Vanguard of the Revolution

10.23943/princeton/9780691196428.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

A. James McAdams

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Communist Party ◽

Political Institutions ◽

North Korea ◽

Karl Marx ◽

Modern World ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

History Of ◽

The Revolution

This book is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. The book argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. It shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings. The book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

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ABCs of the Revolution

Observatory of Culture ◽

10.25281/2072-3156-2020-17-3-278-291 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 278-291

Author(s):

Egor A. Yesyunin

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Special Significance ◽

Development History ◽

The People ◽

Red Army ◽

History Of ◽

Second World ◽

The Revolution

The article is devoted to the satirical agitation ABCs that appeared during the Civil War, which have never previously been identified by researchers as a separate type of agitation art. The ABCs, which used to have the narrow purpose of teaching children to read and write before, became a form of agitation art in the hands of artists and writers. This was facilitated by the fact that ABCs, in contrast to primers, are less loaded with educational material and, accordingly, they have more space for illustrations. The article presents the development history of the agitation ABCs, focusing in detail on four of them: V.V. Mayakovsky’s “Soviet ABC”, D.S. Moor’s “Red Army Soldier’s ABC”, A.I. Strakhov’s “ABC of the Revolution”, and M.M. Cheremnykh’s “Anti-Religious ABC”. There is also briefly considered “Our ABC”: the “TASS Posters” created by various artists during the Second World War. The article highlights the special significance of V.V. Mayakovsky’s first agitation ABC, which later became a reference point for many artists. The authors of the first satirical ABCs of the Civil War period consciously used the traditional form of popular prints, as well as ditties and sayings, in order to create images close to the people. The article focuses on the iconographic connections between the ABCs and posters in the works of D.S. Moor and M.M. Cheremnykh, who transferred their solutions from the posters to the ABCs.

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‘The greatest irregular’

10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ruth Scurr

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

Historical Record ◽

Thomas Carlyle ◽

History Of ◽

Dramatic Narrative ◽

The French Revolution ◽

The Revolution

Thomas Carlyle claimed that his history of the French Revolution was ‘a wild savage book, itself a kind of French Revolution …’. This chapter considers his stylistic approaches to creating the illusion of immediacy: his presentation of seemingly unmediated fact through the transformation of memoir and other kinds of historical record into a compelling dramatic narrative. Closely examining the ways in which he worked biographical anecdote into the fabric of his text raises questions about Carlyle’s wider historical purposes. Pressing the question of what it means to think through style, or to distinguish expressive emotive writing from abstract understanding, is an opportunity to reconsider Carlyle’s relation to his predecessors and contemporaries writing on the Revolution in English.

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JOHN DARBY AND THE WHIG CANON

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x20000606 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

JOSEPH HONE

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Political Thought ◽

History Of The Book ◽

History Of ◽

The Revolution

Abstract Through a co-ordinated series of publications in the final years of the seventeenth century, a diverse set of commonwealth texts was entrenched into the canon of whig political thought. This article explores that canon through the lens of the history of the book. A key figure in the formation of this canon was the printer and bookseller John Darby. This article reconstructs Darby's role in the commonwealth opposition to the perceived failures of the Williamite revolution. Using bibliographical methods to establish his output, it shows that from the earliest days of the revolution Darby reprinted a broad range of historic whig texts, ranging from works of history and memoir to collections of poems. These texts provided a language, a rationale, and a model for opposition activity. He also manufactured pamphlets that adapted country principles to contemporary political circumstances. By shifting the focus from John Toland to his printer, the article suggests that the canonical whig texts were one part of a much broader and more ambitious programme to establish an historic canon of oppositional literature.

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History of Scotland, By P. Hume Brown. Vol. II. From the Accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689. (Cambridge: University Press. 1902. Pp. xiv, 464.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/8.1.128 ◽

1902 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cambridge University ◽

History Of ◽

Mary Stewart ◽

The Revolution

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The revolution of Fās in 869/1465 and the death of Sultan ‘Abd al-ḥaqq al-Marīnī

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00057773 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 43-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mercedes García-Arenal

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Partial Information ◽

Present Knowledge ◽

Original Stories ◽

History Of ◽

Historical Writings ◽

The Revolution

If our present knowledge of the history of the Muslim Maghrib is in general unsatisfactory, few periods remain as obscure as the fifteenth century.The extant sources are very scarce. Contemporary Maghribī historical writings are practically non-existent and, with few exceptions, this is still an epoch for which Christian chronicles are not yet really relevant. Only fragmentary and partial information can be extracted from the contemporary Spanish and Portuguese documents. Therefore, we have to rely for our knowledge on the so-called manāqib literature or hagiographic dictionaries which proliferated in Morocco during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These volumes—many of which were lithographed in Fās during the nineteenth century—cannot be considered a first-rate source. They are posterior to the period dealt with and appear as versions of a traditional history composed over the years by agglomeration, repetition, and revision from a series of original stories which may be doubtful, even though they are hallowed by time and usage, and fortified by the weight of respectability. Committed to writing, they have acquired the seal of authority and have seldom been challenged.

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Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Mikael Wolfe

The Latin Americanist ◽

10.1353/tla.2021.0037 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (4) ◽

pp. 575-576

Author(s):

Jacob Blanc

Keyword(s):

Agrarian Reform ◽

History Of ◽

Technological History ◽

The Revolution

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Women and Gender in 1917

Slavic Review ◽

10.1017/slr.2017.177 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 694-702 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Significant Issue ◽

Women And Gender ◽

One Dimensional ◽

History Of ◽

Key Issues ◽

And Gender ◽

Almost All ◽

The Revolution

This paper argues for greater integration of considerations of women and gender in the history of the 1917 Russian Revolutions. Two key issues have long been discussed by historians: the spontaneity/consciousness paradigm, and the role of class in the revolution. Neither has been adequately analyzed in relation to gender. Women's suffrage has been largely neglected despite the fact that it was a significant issue throughout the year and represented a pioneering advance won by a countrywide coalition of women and men from the working class and intelligentsia, and from almost all political parties. In this centennial year, accounts of the Revolution remain one-dimensional; women remain the other.

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