Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Paperback - Anne Applebaum

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As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

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The Gulag was Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who...

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At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin a...

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Stalin's deliberate engineering of the Great Famine as felt across Ukraine in the 1930s is examined in informed and authoritative detail, in this u...

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Contributor(s): Editor: Larry DiamondEditor: Marc F. PlattnerEditor: Christopher WalkerOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldene...

Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a bad reputation, as sha...

This first study into the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan uses a diverse range of original source material to reveal what d...

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to...

In a land of story tellers, legends and beliefs carried down through generations, so it was in Ireland in 1800 for Tom Forde, who carried the spiri...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Daniel MorganIllustration(s): 43 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 306Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the commo...

A comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in TurkeyPublisher: Pluto PressIllustration(s): 16 figuresNumber o...

Lonny is a lifeling. But he pays a price for this gift - by lengthening the creature's life, he shortens his own. Because if people knew what he co...

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Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

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Reducere. Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritar...

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Why did the Romans turn out in their tens of thousands to watch brutal gladiatorial games? Previous studies have tried to explain the attraction of...

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The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poigna...

Reducere. DescriptionLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, l mir Bourges' acknowl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ben RhodesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 27Cover type: Paperback ...

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