The Rise and Fall of Communism

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

This second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers a comprehensive overview of German history from its transformation as a loose patchwork o...

DescriptionThe first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most sign...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anatole KonstantinThis book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name di...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, ...

The most comprehensive and authoritative history of communism. 'To understand one of the central stories of the 20th century - read Brown's book' }...

Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the revolutionary history in the interwar perio...

Reducere. Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists c...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Ev...

Reducere. With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized ...

A long-overdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer--a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Ho...

Charting the rise and fall of almost fifty years of global confrontation, this book highlights the impact of the Cold War on the culture of the tim...

DescriptionCould the secret to economic success be reduced to four words? A country that has the "magic formula" - Low Taxes, Stable Money - finds ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip RothEditor: Ross MillerGathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's defin...

DescriptionThe worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American ...

After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S. seized the opportunity to begin strategic faculty and student exchanges with ...

Reducere. America began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since Worl...

This is the first wholly new collection of Don Camillo stories to be translated into English for over forty years - novel enchantments for those wh...

Reducere. A true story told through the memoirs of Victor Kramchaninova and his family, these memoirs are a 20th Century Ukrainian odyssey that spans both Wo...

Publisher: The Merlin Press LtdAuthor(s): Francis BeckettNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 212 x 137 x 21Cover type: Paperback ...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's ...

Reducere. Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

Reducere. DescriptionDistinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations througho...

Reducere. "This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." --The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Giant...

``This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages.`` --The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Gia...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

DescriptionMaris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dy...

Reducere. A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towe...

In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patri...

China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was...

Reducere. Discover the Captivating History of Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation as it is officially known, is the world's largest country and covers a...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History: A Captiva...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History...

Reducere. DescriptionSocialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Each failure to ...