The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

1. Introduction: Anti-Communist Persecutions in The 20th Century- Christian Gerlach.- Part I: Policies and Practices of Persecution.- 2. The Smith Act Trials and Systemic Violence: Anti-Communist Persecution and Prosecution in America, 1949-1957- Barbara J. Falk.- 3. The Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Leftist State Persecution in Modern Japan- Frank Jacob.- 4. Franco's Anti-Communist Judicial System: Results and Solutions of Spanish Transitional Justice- Daniel Vallès Muñío.- 5. Laboratories of The Conditio Humana: The Role of Communism in Greek and Argentine Torture Centers During Their Last Military Dictatorships- Janis Nalbadidacis.- 6. Maoist Insurgency and The State's Counterinsurgency in India: An Anti-Anti-Communist Historical Perspective- Bernard D'mello and Gautam Navlakha.- 7.Getting Hold of a Universe of Conspirators: Anti-Communist Panic, Fears of Subversion, and the Routine of Repression in Senegal's Early Postcolonial Secret Police (The Sûreté), 1962-1965- Alexander Keese.- Part II: Anti-Communism in The Context of Nation-Building, Race and Religion.- 8. How Anti-Communism Disrupted Decolonization: South Korea's State-Building Under US Patronage- Dong-Choon Kim.- 9. Redefining The Outsider: Anti-Communist Narratives and the Student Massacre in Tlatelolco (1968)- Elisa Kriza.- 10.The Black and Red Scare in the 20th Century United States- Robbie Lieberman.- 11. Christian Agency in Anti-Communist Persecution? British-Malaya and Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s- Clemens Six.- Part III: Anti-Communist Persecution and New Models of Capital Accumulation.- 12. Killing Communists: Stalinist Repression and the "Great Terror" in the Soviet Union- Wendy Z. Goldman.- 13.Nation-Building as Anti-Communist Violence: The Armed Forces in Cold War Argentina- James H. Shrader.- Part IV: The Role of Non-State Actors.- 14. Non-State Anti-Communism and Political Violence in Argentina and Uruguay, 1958-1973- Ernesto Bohoslavsky and Magdalena Broquetas.-15. The

Christian Gerlach is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a global historian whose research covers Nazi Germany and World War II, comparative mass violence, and the history of food, hunger and development policies. He is author of The Extermination of the European Jews (2016), Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (2010), The Last Chapter: Realpolitik, Ideology and the Murder of Hungarian Jews (with Götz Aly, 2002), Calculated Murder: The German Economic and Extermination Policy in Belarus (1999) and War, Food, Genocide: Studies on the German Extermination Policy in World War II (1998). His publications have appeared in eleven languages.
Clemens Six is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include politics and religion in 20th century Southand Southeast Asia, transnational secularism studies, global intellectual history since 1945, and the history of international development cooperation. He is the author of Secularism, Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and South East Asia (2018) and Spectacular Politics: Performative nation-building and religion in modern India (2010).