Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan

The 'Khartoum Springs' of 1964 and 1985

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Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan

The 'Khartoum Springs' of 1964 and 1985

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

In the wake of the protests that toppled regimes across the Middle East in 2011, Sudanese activists and writers have proudly cited their very own 'Arab Springs' of 1964 and 1985, which overthrew the country's first two military regimes, as evidence of their role as political pioneers in the region. Whilst some of these claims may be exaggerated, Sudan was indeed unique in the region at the time in that it witnessed not one but two popular uprisings which successfully uprooted military authoritarianisms.

Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan provides the first scholarly book-length history of the 1964 and 1985 uprisings. It explores the uprisings themselves, their legacy and the contemporary relevance they hold in the context of the current political climate of the Middle East. The book also contends that the sort of politics espoused by various kinds of Islamist during the uprisings can be interpreted as a form of early 'post-Islamism', in which Islamist political agendas were seen to be compatible with liberalism and democracy.

Using interviews, Arabic language sources and a wealth of archival material, this book is an important and original study that is of great significance for scholars of African and Middle Eastern political history.

Introduction
1. The October Revolution: Interrogating the Causality of the 1964 Uprising
2. The April Intifada of 1985: Civilian Uprising or a Dictator's Self-Destruction?
3. The Participation of Sudan's Political Parties in the Two Uprisings
4. The 'Modern Forces': Students, Professionals and Labour Unions in 1964 and 1985
5. The Role of the 'Security Forces': Protectors of the People or Hijackers of the Revolution?
6. The 1964-5 Transitional Regime and the Disintegration of Professional Unity
7. The 1985-6 Transitional Period and the Tenacity of Political Islam
8. The Legacy of 1964 and 1985
Conclusion
Glossary of Arabic Terms
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published	Mar 26 2015
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Pages	304
ISBN	9781472574015
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Series	A Modern History of Politics and Violence
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

[An] outstanding contribution to a strong tradition of Sudanese history.

Sudan Studies Association
Berridge has dug deeply into contemporary Arabic- and English-language accounts of the revolutions and the short democratic periods that followed them, and conducted an impressive number of interviews with the students, trade unionists, lawyers, politicians and soldiers who played prominent roles in 1964 and 1985 ... [The book] stands as the definitive account of two curiously overlooked revolutions

Times Literary Supplement
An exceptional book which, notwithstanding a mass of detail, makes the reader want to know more.

Sudan Studies
The uprisings have been mythologized more than they have been rigorously documented and analyzed. W.J. Berridge's superb book fills that gap ... [He] scrupulously avoids the risk of writing history backwards: the stories of these uprisings and their sequelae are recounted with the historian's eye to the contingencies of events and the uncertainties facing the protagonists ... This is a fine book: modern history at its best.

Alex de Waal, Director of the World Peace Foundation, African Arguments
In contrast to more recent, well-documented uprisings in Sudan, which have resulted in UN indictments against the current president, this political history recounts two previous popular revolts with more positive outcomes … Through mining interviews, archival material, and newspaper accounts, mostly in the Arab vernacular, Berridge considers the two political cycles, analyzing the roles played by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Communist and other political parties, as well as the universities. The result is a detailed, informative account of these relatively underreported and little-understood political events for the English-speaking world. In the conclusion of this admirable study, Berridge raises the questions of why this cycle repeated itself and why the Sudan has not had a more recent Arab Spring. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

W. Arens, Stony Brook University, CHOICE
Well-researched and detail-oriented ... a useful resource for those interested in Sudanese contemporary political history.

American Historical Review