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The military revolution and political change
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished West...
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The mongol conquests in the novels of vasily yan
Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874–1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of an important Russ...
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The october revolution in prospect and retrospect
Using Robert Brenner's analysis of capitalism's origins as a framework, Marot examines Soviet attempts at building a post-capitalist society.
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The petrograd workers in the russian revolution
Two definitive works on the early days of the Russian Revolution, now collected in one captivating volume.
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The practical essence of man
This book depicts in detail the rise and fall of a remarkable phenomenon in Soviet Marxism: The Activity Approach.’
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The putin system
Grigory Yavlinsky, a Russian economist and opposition leader, explains his country’s politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear. He argues that Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator.
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The quest for an ideal youth in putin's russia i
This book analyzes the dubious role of the Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement "Nashi" in contemporary Russia. Part of the Putinist project of political stabilization, Nashi mobilizes young Russians through its emotional appeal, skillful use of symbolic politics, and promise of professional sel...
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The quest for an ideal youth in putin's russia ii
Government-organized yet scandal-stricken, Nashi inspires everything from broad support to a reluctance to accept all implications of Putin's political system. This volume shows how Nashi conceptualizes an "ideal youth" within the framework of an official national identity politics and as an atte...
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The russian moment in world history
Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze d...
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The russian social-democratic labour party, 1899-1904
Everyone has read Lenin’s What is to Be Done.’ Now everyone can read the contributions of his political interlocutors.
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The scythian empire
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy an...
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The selected works of eugene v. debs vol. iii
This massive six volume set gathers together the most important spoken and written words of Debs for the first time, allowing a deeper understanding of radical political opposition in America during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
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The selected works of eugene v. debs volume ii
Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.
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The shortest history of the soviet union
The acclaimed historian Sheila Fitzpatrick chronicles the Soviet Age—its rise, reign, and unexpected fall, as well as its afterlife in today’s Russia. Moving seamlessly from Lenin to Stalin to Gorbachev to Putin, this book provides an indispensable guide to one of the twentieth century’s great po...
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The sino-soviet split
A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one...
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The soviet century
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like...
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The stalinist legacy
Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.
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The women's liberation movement in russia
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipatio...
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Transnational ukraine?
The Euromaidan protests showed Ukraine to be a state between East and West European paths. Ukraine's search for an identity and future is deeply rooted in historical fractures, which indicate its longstanding ties beyond its borders. In this volume, distinguished scholars provide empirical analys...
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Transnational women writers in the wilmot coterie, 1798-1840
Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of midd...
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Trotsky and the problem of soviet bureaucracy
Insightful and groundbreaking, Twiss’s account of Trotsky’s theory of post-revolutionary bureaucracy will soon become the definitive work on the subject.
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Trotsky on lenin
Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
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Trotsky's challenge
The debates surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s Lessons of October are here collected, translated, and explained for the first time.
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Trotsky's marxism and other essays
In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for today in clear, sharp prose. Includes essential writings by Hallas about the development of Trotskyism after Trotsky’s assassination in 1940.
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Ukraine: what went wrong and how to fix it
Ukraine suffered unprecedented political, economic, and military turmoil following Russia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014. Russian military aggression in the east and a legacy of destructive policies and corruption have created an imminent existential crisis for this young democracy. Yet Ukr...
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Understanding contemporary russian militarism
Russia's New Generation War—a perpetual subversion of the West is based off a faulty conclusion, was not inevitable, and peace is not impossible on mutually acceptable terms.
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Unfinished leninism
A stimulating collection of essays on the revolutionary socialist Vladimir Lenin that survey fierce controversies over his life and ideas.
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Vanguard of the revolution
The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. A. James McAdams argue...
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Viacheslav ivanov
A poet, scholar, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher, Viacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949) was one of the most extraordinary figures of Russia’s tumultuous twentieth century. This definitive biography of Ivanov tells the full story of his life and work amid the cataclysmic events of ...
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War on war
World War One divided the socialist movement internationally: collaboration or resistance? Here is the resisters' story.
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Western marxism and the soviet union
A wide-ranging survey of debates within Marxism about the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.
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What remains
Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday...
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Where nation-states come from
To date, the world can lay claim to little more than 190 sovereign independent entities recognized as nation-states, while by some estimates there may be up to eight hundred more nation-state projects underway and seven to eight thousand potential projects. Why do a few such endeavors come to fru...
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Women, the bureaucracy, and daily life in postwar moscow, 1945-1953
This monograph examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild and repopulate following World War II by offering to support families while encouraging women to enter the full-time work force. However, combined with the realities of postwar life and broken promises, this program was lacking and for...
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Year one of the russian revolution
Serge exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important working class revolution in history.
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