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Global Gender eBook Series

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  • The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War

    Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’?

    by Yulia Gradskova ...
    Series series Global Gender
    This book examines the role of the Women's International Defense Federation (WIDF) in transnational women’s activism in the context of the Cold War, and in connection to the rights of women from Asia, Africa and Latin America.Combining a global history and postcolonial theory approach, this monograph shines light on an underrepresented organisation and its important role in the Cold War, Twentieth ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gendering Postsocialism

    Old Legacies and New Hierarchies

    Edited by Yulia Gradskova, Ildikó Asztalos Morell ...
    Series series Global Gender
    Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in social citizenship and, crucially, their established gender norms and relations, all contributing to the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    by David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... Read more

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  • Post-Soviet Civil Society

    Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

    by Anders Uhlin ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

    by Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

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  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    by Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny ...
    "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism."-Norman Markowitz, author ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • National Minorities in Putin's Russia

    Diversity and Assimilation

    by Federica Prina ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Using a human rights approach, the book analyses the dynamics in the application of minority policies for the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia. Despite Russia’s legacy of ethno-cultural and linguistic pluralism, the book argues that the Putin leadership’s overwhelming statism and promotion of Russian patriotism are inexorably leading to a reduction of Russia’s diversity. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

    Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space

    Edited by Rano Turaeva, Rustamjon Urinboyev ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to ... Read more

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  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Martin K. Dimitrov ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Extreme Politics : Nationalism Violence and the End of Eastern Europe

    Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

    by Charles King ...
    Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology social violence and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Global Cold War

    Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - ... Read more

    $30.39 USD