IRAK PO PÁDE MONARCHIE

• Authors: Sorby Karol

Title variants

EN

Iraq after the fall of monarchy

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The military coup - the Revolution of 1958 - that finally overthrew the monarchy and inaugurated a new era in Iraqi history succeeded more because of luck and audacity than as a result of a long planning or extensive organization. The coup was unquestionably a reflection of deep-seated discontent among officers and civilian politicians with the regime's foreign policy and its slowness to reform. After the overthrow of the monarchy, the revolutionary regime in Iraq under Abdalkarim Qasim was constantly beset by an internal struggle: communists and their supporters on one side and pan-Arab nationalists and Iraqi Bathists on the other. Street fighting erupted in Baghdad at the slightest provocation. In March 1959, a revolt broke out in Mosul led by anti-communist army officers and pan-Arabists. Abdalkarim Qasim crushed the revolt with massive communist support. He might have been able to keep a balance between the two had he 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; IRAQ AFTER MONARCHY'S FALL; REVOLUTION IN IRAQ

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 507-524
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sorby Karol

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

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA05716