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  • The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926

    Ten Years That Shook the World

    by Jonathan Smele ...
    This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A History of Education in Modern Russia

    Aims, Ways, Outcomes

    by Professor Wayne Dowler, Dr. Jonathan Smele, Professor Emeritus Michael S. Melancon ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day.Individual chapters open with an overview of the political, social, diplomatic and cultural environment of the period in order to orient the reader. Dowler then goes on to analyse the aims of education ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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    The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism

    by Jonathan Smele ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Smele ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917. To understand the Russian Revolution, then, is to understand a key building block of modern history and the contemporary world. Senior lecturer and renowned Russian researcher Dr. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Greek Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Lord ...
    The Greek War of Independence was fought against the occupying Ottoman Turks from 1821-1832. Started in part by the Filiki Eteria movement in Greece, uprising 1821 soon lead to a full scale war. By 1828, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged their support to Greece and helped defeat the Turks. In 1832, Greece was recognized as an independent country. Greek Independence day is ... Read more

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  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

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  • The Age of Napoleon

    by Alistair Horne ...
    The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time.Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica, he rose to prominence in the turbulent years following the French Revolution, when most of Europe was arrayed against France. Through a string of ... Read more

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  • The Dilemmas of Lenin

    Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution

    by Tariq Ali ...
    The secret life of the man who reshaped RussiaVladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Paris

    A History in Footsteps

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur’s ear for a story with a historian’s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the Acadian Resistance

    The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765

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    Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation.Their battle was against a form of ethnic cleansing that saw British soldiers burn every remnant of the Acadian ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050

    Edited by MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray ...
    The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually ... Read more

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  • Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)

    Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I know not whether any man in the world,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had more influence on its ... Read more

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