The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: a Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers

Title
 Copyright
 Contents
 Preface
 List of Tables
 List of Illustrations
 List of Maps
 Book One The Old Social Classes
 Part I Introduction
 Chapter 1: The \"Old Social Classes\": Practical and Theoretical Clarifications
 Applicability of Concept
 Difficulties of Analysis
 Chapter 2: Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of Their Society, and Their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure
 Chapter 3: The Geographic Distribution of the Principal Racial-Religious Groups and Relevant Causative Factors. Chapter 4: Some Religious-Class and Ethnic-Class CorrelationsPart II The Main Classes and Status Groups
 Chapter 5: The Mallāks or Landowners
 Chapter 6: The Shaikhs, Aghas, and Peasants
 Chapter 7: The Sādah
 Chapter 8: The Old \"Aristocracy\" of Officials
 Chapter 9: The Chalabīs and the Jewish Merchants and Merchant-Sarrāfs
 Chapter 10: The Crown and the Ex-Sharīfian Officers
 Book Two The Communists from the Beginnings of Their Movement to the Fifties
 Part I Beginnings in the Arab East
 Chapter 11: The Earliest \"Levelers\"
 the Armenian Hentchak
 the Jewish Communists. And the Communist InternationalPart II Beginnings in Iraq
 Chapter 12: Husain ar-Rahhā l, as-Sahīfah Group, and at-Taḍāmun Club
 Chapter 13: Pyotr Vasili and the Basrah and Nāsiriyyah Communist Circles
 Chapter 14: The Founding of the Iraqi Communist Party
 Chapter 15: Two Iraqis-Three Sects
 Chapter 16: Beginning again
 or the Communists in the Period of the Coups d\'Etat (1936-1941)
 Part III Causes
 Chapter 17: Of the General Causes That Made for the Increase of Communism in the Two Decades before the July Revolution
 Part IV Fahd and the Party (1941-1949)
 Chapter 18: Fahd Chapter 19: Toward a Tightly Knit, Ideologically Homogeneous PartyChapter 20: New Situations, New Approaches
 Chapter 21: The Arrest of Fahd and after
 Chapter 22: Al-Wathbah
 Chapter 23: The Disaster
 the Death of Fahd on the Gallows
 the \"Children Communists\"
 Chapter 24: Fahd, the Communist International, the Soviets, the Syrian Communists, and the People\'s Party
 Chapter 25: The Communists and the Question of Palestine
 Chapter 26: The Character, Scope, and Forms of Party Activity
 Chapter 27: The Organization, Membership, and Social Structure of the Party (1941-1949). Chapter 28: The Finances of the PartyPart V The Party in the Years 1949-1955, or the Period of the Ascendancy of the Kurds in the Party
 Chapter 29: Bahī\'-ud-Dīn nūrī Rebuilds the Party
 Chapter 30: The Intifadah of November
 Chapter 31: More and More Extremism, Less and Less Sense
 Chapter 32: A Defeat for the Party, or the Birth of the Baghdād Pact
 Chapter 33: A Bit of Forgotten History, or the Tragic Occurrences at the Baghdād and Kūt Prisons
 Chapter 34: A Debate on Religion
 Chapter 35: The Composition of the Party (1949-1955).