IRAQ: THE MOSSUL UPRISING OF 1959

• Authors: Sorby Karol
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

After the overthrow of the monarchy, the revolutionary regime in Iraq under cAbdalkarim Qasim was constantly beset by an internal struggle: communists and their supporters on one side and pan-Arab nationalists and Iraqi Bacthists on the other. Street fighting erupted in Baghdad at the slightest provocation. In March 1959, a revolt broke out in Mosul led by the anti-communist army officers and the pan-Arabists. cAbdalkarim Qasim crushed the revolt with the massive communist support. He might have been able to keep a balance between the two, he had not antagonized nationalist leaders through his execution of nationalist officers opposed to him. Thus the country became divided into two radical camps.

Keywords

EN

IRAQ; MODERN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY; NATIONALISM VS COMMUNISM; REVOLUTIONARY REGIME

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 133 - 151
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sorby Karol

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• K. Sorby, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02174591