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Civil wars linger on, hard to define
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Graham Bowley The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
05-25-2009
Civil wars linger on, hard to define
Byline: Graham Bowley The New York Times
Edition: 1
Section: NEWS
Last week, after more than 25 years of conflict, the Tamil separatists of Sri Lanka admitted defeat in their war for an independent homeland. And so ended Asia's longest-running civil war, one of about 20 civil conflicts burning around the globe, from Colombia to Iraq to Pakistan.
Which raises some questions: How long do most civil wars last? What is a civil war, anyway? And how, finally, are they ended?
According to Max ...
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The dove flies East: Whitehall, Warsaw and the 1950 world peace congress.
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
; ...inaugural meeting of the Communist Information Bureau, or Cominform, in September 1947. The Soviet representative, A. Zhdanov...Russian foreign policy for the next five years. In 1949 a Cominform resolution directed that peace "should now become the pivot...
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The Removal of the Greek Children and Greek-Yugoslav Relations, 1949-1953 -- A Critical Approach
Magazine article from: Journal of Political and Military Sociology
; ...allies. These policies evolved as Tito broke ranks with the Cominform, an event that influenced Yugoslavia's ties to the West...countries also wanted to support Tito in his break with the Cominform. In the final analysis British and American policy influenced...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1949:Tito Regime
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Tito appears to be as firmly in power as it was when it was attacked by the Cominform. Only a ''handful'' in the Yugoslav communist ranks have sided with the Cominform, according to the speakers at the congress, where hundreds gave Tito repeated...
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UNDER THE RED FLAG.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...International (the Comintern) and its 1947 successor the Cominform. In the 1930s the CPGB received some [pound]2,000 to...No wonder the British Party was not allowed to join the Cominform in 1947 -- it was rejected as 'politically insignificant...
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Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ...changed. She links this change with the establishment of the Cominform and the declaration of the Zhdanov 'two camp doctrine...seen in Soviet official publications, as well as the general Cominform line. (6) They do not give any concrete or archival evidence...
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Taking a Page From the Cold War
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the Cold War." Back then, the Soviet leaders set up the Cominform, an organization by which Moscow controlled communist parties...sometimes providing secret financial support, much as the Cominform did. "I think over time we're going to need to build that...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1948: Balkan Rivalry
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...war-time occupation of Macedonia and part of Serbia. The Cominform has revived the dangerous Yugoslav-Bulgarian rivalry over...squabbling over boundaries is the most arresting phenomenon of the Cominform split. 1998 Copyright International Herald Tribune. http...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1948: Standing by Tito
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...The Yugoslav Communist party defied Soviet Russia, rejected Cominform charges against it, and called upon all Yugoslav Communists...to all Yugoslavs to support Marshal Tito's regime. The Cominform urged them to oust Marshal Tito if he failed to reform. Marshal...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1949:Tito Accuses
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Herald Tribune 04-10-1999 BELGRADE Marshal Tito accused the Cominform of trying to start a civil war in Yugoslavia in an attempt...its sovereignty. He served notice that he would fight the Cominform aims, ''which have nothing in common with Marxist and Leninist...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1948:Countering Reds
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...studying a project for establishment of a Western ''counter-Cominform'' to fight the spread of Communism in Europe. John Foster...foreign policy expert, outlined the plan. The ''counter-Cominform'' would operate in many of the fields of the ''cold war...
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