Egyptian Politics, 1950-1981

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"This study will examine, briefly, the events which led up to the 1952 Revolution in Egypt, and will then more extensively explore the social, political and economic development of Egypt from 1952, through the Nasser era, and up to the time of the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.


As the Lacoutres write, "Early in the summer of 1952 Egypt was oozing revolution from every pore . . . . While in the course of 1951 forty-nine strikes had shown the extent of social unrest, the patient Egyptian peasantry had in turn become restive . . . Finally, "The king vanquished the Wafd [intellectual bourgeoisie] on the afternoon of January 26th [1952]. But this was at the price of his crown. He lost the halo of invulnerability which surrounded the palace; he had shaken the pillars of power represented by the army, the police, the royal Cabinet, and the unity..."

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