The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq

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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 US occupation. Born in the interlude between two world wars, the Communist Party of Iraq was fostered by Iraq’, s embryonic intelligentsia as an approach to national liberation during the period of British domination. Driven underground or into exile by successive waves of Baathist repression beginning in 1963, the party’, s leadership became progressively dependent on and subservient to the Soviet Union. Dissatisfied with the party’, s irrelevance to Iraq’, s sociopolitical dynamics, reform efforts were thwarted by the old-guard leadership, and in the mid-1970s the party fragmented. With the fall of the Hussein regime and the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, the remnants of the party’, s old guard connected with the US-installed government and became part of the U.S. project in Iraq.

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