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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “erik van ree”
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  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo

    by John Löwenhardt, James R. Ozinga, Erik van Ree ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics
    The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution. Extensive use of new Soviet sources permitted the authors to provide a comprehensive analysis of the way in which the Politburo operated and a sociological examination of its membership. The history of the Politburo is presented in a lucid and rigorous account that charts its ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Boundaries of Utopia - Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin

    by Erik van Ree ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    The idea that socialism could be established in a single country was adopted as an official doctrine by the Soviet Union in 1925, Stalin and Bukharin being the main formulators of the policy. Before this there had been much debate as to whether the only way to secure socialism would be as a result of socialist revolution on a much broader scale, across all Europe or wider still. This book traces ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin

    A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism

    by Erik van Ree ...
    This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Sovietization of Eastern Europe

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    Edited by Balzs Apor, Péter Apor, Rees E. A. ...
    This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the "other" Europe during the Cold War era.When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also governments that sought to ... Read more

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  • Fascism

    History and Theory

    by David Renton ...
    Across Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945. Right-wing street movements draw huge supporters and terrorist attacks on Jews and Muslims proliferate. It sometimes seems we are returning to the age of fascism.To explain this disturbing trend, David Renton surveys the history of fascism in Europe from its pre-war origins to ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Pale

    The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia

    by Benjamin Nathans ...
    Series Book 45 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Between States

    The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II

    by Holly Case ...
    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war arguing bitterly over Transylvania's future, and Germany and Italy were drawn into their dispute to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Origins Of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history—now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.The book begins with the rise of anti ... Read more

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  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

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  • Red Famine

    Stalin's War on Ukraine

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

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  • Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia

    by Rebekah Klein-Pejšová ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "Well researched . . . A major contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas and challenges faced by Czechoslovak Jewry in the interwar period." —Michael Miller, Central European UniversityIn the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. ... Read more

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