The Convergence of Cold War Politics, Labor, and Ethnic Tensions in the July 1946 Strikes at Kirkuk and Abadan
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Wien, Peter
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University of Maryland, College Park
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2019
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74
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M.A.
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University of Maryland, College Park
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2019
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This thesis explores the convergence of Cold War politics, labor issues, and ethnic conflict on the local scale during the labor strikes which occurred in July 1946 at the oil refineries in Kirkuk, Iraq and Abadan, Iran. The roles of the local communist parties in leading the strikes are weighed against the workers' economic concerns to determine that the workers' motivations for striking extended beyond political support for any particular party, and claims that the violence which ended the strikes was the result of inherent ethnic conflicts are debunked through examination of both regions' ethnic histories.