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  • Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland

    Identity, Geopolitics and the Welfare State

    by Louis Clerc ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide.The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural diplomacy as part ... Read more

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  • Understanding Socialism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A blend of history, analysis, and theory, "Understanding Socialism" is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. "Richard Wolff's book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

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  • How to Stop Fascism

    History, Ideology, Resistance

    by Paul Mason ...
    'For its historical depth, analytical vigour and mobilizational potential, this book is unparalleled ... every page is an urgent invitation to resist' David Lammy MPThe bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far rightThe far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in ... Read more

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  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A History of Germany 1918 - 2008

    The Divided Nation

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The third edition of A History of Germany traces the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918.Offers a persuasive interpretation of the dynamics of twentieth-century German historyTreats German history from 1918-2008 from the perspective of division and reunification, covering East and West German history in equal depthCovers the self-destructive Weimar Republic, the ... Read more

    $57.25 USD

  • Weimar Germany

    by Anthony McElligott ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d'états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Europe's Troubled Peace

    1945 to the Present

    by Tom Buchanan ...
    Series Book 15 - Blackwell History of Europe
    This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • In War's Wake

    Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order

    by Gerard Daniel Cohen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
    After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich, legions of people who fled the advancing Red Army, and many thousands uprooted by the sheer violence ... Read more

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  • A History of Germany 1918 - 2020

    The Divided Nation

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The new edition of the acclaimed textbook on modern German history, written by a leading scholar in the fieldNow in its fifth edition, A History of Germany 1918-2020 provides a clear and well-balanced survey of German history from the creation of the Weimar Republic to the era of Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship. Guiding readers through the complex patterns of the nation’s historical development ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Intimate Violence

    Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

    by Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jason Wittenberg ...
    Winner of the Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesWhy do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941

    Edited by Silvio Pons, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Communism
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Goodbye to All That?

    The Story of Europe Since 1945

    by Dan Stone ...
    In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history. In the East, this new consensus was enforced by Soviet-imposed Communist regimes. In the West, the process was less coercive, amounting more to a consensus of silence. ... Read more

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