Indonesia as Testing Ground

Allen Ruff — 2021-06-03T09:34:51Z

At the start of October 1965, a U.S.-aided and abetted military coup overthrew Indonesia's left-leaning Sukarno government. Not just an account of that tragic episode and the subsequent slaughter of a million or more actual and alleged communists and the horrific imprisonment of another million, veteran journalist Vincent Bevins' (The Jakarta Method} is something far more.

- Reviews section / Indonesia, Reviews

World War I and Its Century

Allen Ruff — 2014-08-25T09:44:54Z

In his Age of Extremes, the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm marked the start of World War I in August, 1914 as the beginning of the “short twentieth century.”
In Hobsbawm's account, that short century ended with the reunification of Germany and the breakup of the Soviet “East Bloc” in 1989-90. The “Great War” of 1914-1918, he argued, was the defining event of the century.
With the dismemberment of Yugoslavia underway in the early 1990s as he wrote, Hobsbawm observed that the (…)

- IV475 - August 2014 / Historical events and figures

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Indonesia as Testing Ground

World War I and Its Century