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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world
wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed
benefits? How were they recognized-or not-by their governments and
fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain
an elevated postwar status?
In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies
regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele
examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union,
China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They
illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits
were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to
exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians
for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors
show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment
regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable
policies.
The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some
cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and
lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under
liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars
fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for
legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who
succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas
through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support.
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future:
comparative veteran studies.
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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world
wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed
benefits? How were they recognized-or not-by their governments and
fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain
an elevated postwar status?
In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies
regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele
examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union,
China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They
illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits
were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to
exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians
for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors
show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment
regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable
policies.
The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some
cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and
lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under
liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars
fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for
legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who
succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas
through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support.
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future:
comparative veteran studies.
eBook
Stalinist society, 1928-1953
A fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship.
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