The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia. From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class, Hardback - ***

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia's social structure survived the Bolsheviks' social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and...

Reducere. Volumul (publicat in limba engleza) analizeaza schimbarea culturii politice in Romania, de la inceputul tranzitiei pana in momentul acceptarii Roma...

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The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian ...

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber 's theory of legitimacy. Was co...

Reducere. DescriptionAmid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Tsar's opponents printed and distributed vast quantities of picture po...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

Reducere. Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author...

Description'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter'The single best book that I have read about the populist, authoritarian trend that is rem...

A sharply-observed study of one of the major turning points in history. A superb first-hand account from an officer on the Russian Imperial Staff. ...

Publisher: ZupagrafikaAuthor(s): ZupagrafikaIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 172 ...

Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalis...

In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Associate Professor Eugene M. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) AvrutinIllustration(s)...

This study explores in greater depth the religious figures, radical activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, social workers and others in both the U.S....

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Dr. Eran LermanNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 27Cover type: HardbackR...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds tha...

Chinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign capitalists to finance the r...

Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes ...

Reducere. This classic study, by the late John Doyle Klier, is considered a seminal text in modern Jewish history by one of the foremost scholars in the fiel...

Reducere. Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to ben...

DescriptionDuring the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growt...

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First published as a special issue of Global Discourse, this book explores the theoretical position of post-Marxism and investigates its significan...

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic a...

This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to ...

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses ...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Hans LengererIllustration(s): 150 b/w photos & line drawingsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022...

The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C. E. - Alicia Walker

Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): Robert E (Univ Of Victoria, Canada & Univ Of Washington, Usa) BedeskiNumber of pages: 272Publicati...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rob BeckettNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 35Cover type: HardbackRe...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...