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The Communists and the Kadro Movement. Shaping Ideology in Ataturk's Turkey, by George S. Harris. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2002. 172 pages. Appends, to p. 226. Bibl. to p. 235. Index to p. 241. $25 paper.
The journal Kadro, published in the Turkey of the early 1930s by mostly ex-communists intellectuals, has been a focus of continuous interest by contemporary intellectuals and academicians. This is perhaps because the Kadro (Cadre) movement offers a consistent and systematic ideological perspective in Turkish political life whereas ideological inconsistencies and eclecticism prevail even today. George Harris's book explores the Kadro movement within the development of the communist movement in the 1920s and 1930s. However, from the outset it should be noted that...