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The purpose of this study is to examine if there exists a discrepancy between popular Westernized notions about the role of social media and the notions of those affected by the Green Revolution in Iran in 2009 and assess how this might change the dominant discourse of cyber-uto…

Although scholars have devoted substantial attention to Armenian revolutionary movements, the treatment of the subject of relations between various Armenian organizations and the Young Turks and their leaders, both individually or through various institutions, have received tang…

This thesis is the first history of the early Soviet regime's legal, administrative and medical approaches to homosexuality, using psychiatric archival and criminal records. Treating the period from 1917 to 1941, it uncovers the subcultures of male and female homosexuals in soci…

This thesis is about iconoclasm in Paris, 1789-1795. Previous full-length studies on the subject have condemned revolutionary iconoclasm as "vandalism" because, they claim, it showed barbaric disrespect for art's sacred, aesthetic and historical values. This thesis argues that s…

To what extent has been continuity and change in the revolutionary Iran foreign policy since 1979? This question is examining the Iranian foreign policy over the last twenty-seven-year by using two major theories in the fields of International relations and comparative foreign p…

This dissertation probes the relationship between Russian literary culture and revolutionary terrorism, the writer and the terrorist, the word and the deed, and argues that Russian literature played a significant role not only in making sense of terrorism for a society beset by …

Of the many individuals involved in the Indian nationalist movement during the early twentieth century, one of the most important and controversial was the life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966). In this dissertation, I examine a formative period of V.D. Savarkar's life be…

Many scholars have long held that religious disputes are a major source of prolonged conflict. Accordingly, as religious zeal continues to be a primary motivator in conflicts throughout the modern world, the ability to understand the conditions under which religious movements er…

The story of Abraham, as understood by Christians and Muslims, has always had a formative influence on the central theological dicta of Christianity and Islam. In theologies that perceive class struggle and oppression of the poor as issues distinctly within the purview of religi…