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By Joel Gordon

This ebook examines a key interval within the formation of recent Egypt, the early years of army rule following the coup of 1952. The unfastened officials, a mystery association of junior officials, overthrew Egypt's parliamentary regime in July 1952 and over the following few years consolidated their rule, brutally suppressing replacement political pursuits. Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of many younger officials, emerged because the chief of the army junta and introduced an formidable software for monetary improvement, making Egypt a pacesetter in Arab, African, and non-aligned politics, in addition to a version for political mobilization and nationwide improvement in the course of the 3rd international. targeting the objectives, courses, successes, and screw ups of the younger regime, Gordon offers the main accomplished account of the Egyptian revolution thus far. in addition to bringing to gentle newly opened American and British resources at the interval, Gordon's ebook can be educated via interviews he performed with a couple of actors and observers of the occasions.

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With palace backing, Makram 'Ubayd, the number-two man in the Wafd and widely recognized as the party's conscience, but increasingly on the outs, published a "Black Book" detailing corruption within the Wafd. When the party ousted him, 'Ubayd formed his own party, the Independent Wafdist Bloc. 9 In the postwar period opposition movements changed the nature of political debate in the country. The street battles in the 1930s reflected popular cynicism about corruption and the inability to attain a British withdrawal.

The schisms suffered by the DMNL impressed upon Workers Vanguard leaders the need to maintain a small, more tightly organized and ideologically uniform movement. They undertook an open propaganda campaign, printing and circulating leaflets for public consumption. 63 Like the DMNL, the Workers Vanguard backed Wafdist candidates in 1950. Most of the movement's founders traced their political roots to the left wing of the Wafdist student movement. 64 32 Nasser's Blessed Movement The ambivalence of the antiestablishment toward the ideals, if not the practices, of liberalism provides an ironic footnote to the twilight of the old regime.

Hudaybi, however, overplayed the role in the eyes of many. 54 Hasan al-Banna's position on the question of participation in the political system had been ambivalent. After the Wafd's assumption of power in 1942, Banna considered running for parliament, but Nahhas dissuaded him with political promises. In the January 1945 election, which the Wafd boycotted and the Sa'dists rigged, Banna and five colleagues did run, only to be defeated. " The day the Wafd fell, Ralph Stevenson speculated that Hudaybi would agree to serve in a coalition government if approached, that the king might one day even ask Hudaybi to form a government.

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