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Civil and Revolutionary Violence

Civil and Revolutionary Violence. Rob Johnson. Madrid. Iraq. Istanbul 20.11.2003 . New York. London. Jakarta, 9.9.04. Beslan. German peasants rebellion, 1525. Tsar Nicholas II, c.1900. Types of Violence. State Violence (‘Legitimate’) Capital punishment Corporal punishment

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Civil and Revolutionary Violence

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  1. Civil and Revolutionary Violence Rob Johnson

  2. Madrid

  3. Iraq

  4. Istanbul 20.11.2003

  5. New York

  6. London

  7. Jakarta, 9.9.04

  8. Beslan

  9. German peasants rebellion, 1525 Tsar Nicholas II, c.1900

  10. Types of Violence State Violence (‘Legitimate’) • Capital punishment • Corporal punishment • Imprisonment, exile, transportation • Police, judges, the law • Terror.

  11. Anti-state or intra-state violence • Civil War • Revolutionary/Guerrilla War (illegitimate) • Terrorism(illegitimate) • Racial/ethnic/religious/sectarian violence • Criminal (personal) violence against property or the body (gangs & banditry, muggers, hooliganism, murder, rape)

  12. The Romanticism of Revolution

  13. Michael Collins Lord Byron Ernesto Che Guevara

  14. Kashmir

  15. Casualties of the revolution in Russia Michael Collins Victims of the fighting between Peruvian government and Shining Path

  16. Other forms of violence Violence of Nature • Wild animals • Climatic hazards • Geological hazards • Disease

  17. Small pox

  18. ‘Economic’ Violence • Famine • Death by blockade • Death by ‘interest rates’ (laws of competition and economic structures) • Death by product (tobacco, food scares, untested drugs) • ‘Accidents’ • … Disease

  19. Arno Mayer

  20. Revolutionary Violence:The French Revolution

  21. September Massacres, 1792

  22. The Terror

  23. Retarded economic growth • Famine • Political murders, and massacres • Ideological coercion • Foreign intervention • Civil unrest leading to dictatorship • Eclipsed by Britain, USA and Germany (The ‘Anglo-Saxons’).

  24. The Russian Revolution

  25. Casualties from the World War, 1914-1917 Overthrow of the monarchy by popular unrest and court coup, Feb 1917 Overthrow of a democratic provisional government by coup d’etat, Oct 1917 Civil War, 1918-1922, state repression, famine

  26. Diseases Mostly cholera, typhus, influenza Starvation Atrocities Grain requisition and violence against peasants, peasant reaction, political murder Social dislocation Urban depopulation (‘deindustrialisation’): Petrograd fell from 2m to 750,000 – violence over resources Religious violence Conventional/Guerrilla fighting Anti-Semitic massacres by Whites ‘Greens’, Whites and Reds Murder of priests and imams

  27. Themes in violence since 1919 (The global view)

  28. The Spanish Civil War

  29. Druze Rebellion, 1925 China’s Civil War

  30. Algeria, War of Independence Angola Civil War Mau Mau Emergency

  31. Northern Ireland Palestinian Intifada Warlordism

  32. Nazi death camp, Hungary Nanking Jihadist execution

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