State and Class in Turkey keyword-inventors In the 1950s

In the 1950s

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Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period

State and Class in Turkey keyword-inventors In the 1950sIn a work of considerable analytic elegance, Caglar Keyder provides the first genuinely radical text on the political economy of modern Turkey. Keyder describes how, with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the traditional Muslim bureaucratic class of the old regime attempted to create a new nation state and effect its transition to modernity. Yet by expelling the Christian bourgeoisie between 1914 and 1924 the bureaucracy initially controlled