Political Protest & Dissent, Peace Studies, United States History - General & Miscellaneous
Organizing for Peace
Robert Kleidman
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Overview
Organizing for Peace skillfully compares and analyzes the three major campaigns of the peace movement in the United States since World War I - the Emergency Peace Campaign (1936-1937), the Atomic Test Ban Campaign (1957-1963), and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (1979-1986). Kleidman shows how the campaigns organizational dynamics shaped their rise, course, fall, and impact both on public policy and on the peace movement itself. But as Kleidman points out, the three groups failed despite widespread mobilization and intense activism. Combining careful historical research with insights from contemporary social movement theory, this book sheds new light on the campaigns and the peace movement, as well as on key aspects of social movement organizations, cycles, and trends. Particularly valuable for policy and analysis is Kleidman's framework of organizational tensions. Social scientists and historians, particularly students and scholars of social movements and peace movements, will value the policy implications and analytical rigor of this book.Editorials
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Analyzes and compares three major peace offensives of the peace movement in the US: the Emergency Peace (1936-37), the Atomic Test Ban (1957-63), and the Nuclear Weapon Freeze (1979-86) campaigns. Kleidman (sociology, Cleveland State U.) finds that the organizational dynamics shaped the movements' rise, fall, and impact (i.e. failure), and that they increasingly stressed grass- roots organizing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 31, 1993
Publisher
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1993.
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780815625735