From Kemalism to the Armed Struggle: Radicalization of the Left in the 1960s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Social Change and Political Mobilization in the 1960s 12
6. Part I: Social Change: Sources of Radicalization
7. Economic Policy and Interest Groups 31
8. Alevis in the 1960s. From Mobility to Mobilization 49
9. “Coca Cola is Poison, Don’t Drink It!” – From Enthusiasm to Hostility: American Consumer Goods, Tourists and Hippies in Cold War Turkey 63
10. Radicalization and/or Reformism in Working Class Politics 93
11. Part II: Rationale and Characteristics of Violence
12. From Kemalism to the Armed Struggle: Radicalization of the Left in the 1960s 115
13. Narrating The Enemy: Image and Perception of the “Communists” Among the Radical Right 137
14. Civil War and Massacre in Maraş 1978 152
15. “Liberated Neighborhoods”: Reconstructing Leftist Activism in the Urban Periphery 181
16. Part III: Symbols, Rituals, Artistic Manifestation
17. Shared History, Divided Memory? “1968” in the Narratives of Women Activists 213
18. Objects of Hate? Architectural Symbols of the Rich in Turkey in the 1960s 240
19. Turkey’s “Light” Rock Revolution – Anadolu Pop, Political Music, and the Quest for the Authentic 256
20. Encountering Poverty: Representation of the Gecekondus in Turkish Literature 279
21. Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism 305
22. List of Contributors 325
23. Index 329