Mujda’s Reviews > Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq > Status Update
Mujda
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“Taking over the power is a simple operation that can be executed by a group of adventurers and military coup amateurs at the right time. But interaction with the masses, expressing their interests and aspirations, can only be carried out by ideological revolutionaries..."
— Oct 28, 2022 12:06PM
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Mujda
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"Great upheaval beset Iraq when the Ba'th Party seized control of the country in July 1968. Rather than the Arab 'rebirth' promised by the Resurrection Party, the new era saw Iraq moving further away from the Arab fold. Painstakingly, the Ba'th Party entrenched itself and outmanoeuvred its main rivals - the Communists and the Kurds... Behind the scenes, Saddam Hussein, consolidated and expanded his power base."
— Oct 16, 2022 06:07AM
Mujda
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“The seemingly improved relations between the Kurds & Baghdad had, as many remembered, originated in the understanding between the Bathists and Mulla Mustafa Barzani as an unofficial ceasefire … this temporary rapprochement soon vanished as Barzani now demanded autonomy for Kurdistan.”
— Oct 14, 2022 12:34PM
