The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
By: Terry Martin
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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1. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
2. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
By: Francine Hirsch
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the… read more
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- russia
- soviet history
- history
- nonfiction
- russian history
3. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
4. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
5. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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8. Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
By: Ivan Bunin
3.50
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize-winning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated i… read more
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9. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
By: Wendy Lower
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the n… read more
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10. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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11. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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12. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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13. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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14. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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15. Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
By: Costin Alamariu
3.97
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
This is an argument that philosophy is born with and dependent on the idea of nature; and that this… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. Muhammad
By: Maxime Rodinson
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. M… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Stalin: Passage to Revolution
By: Ronald Grigor Suny
4.18
Format: 856 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years This is the definitive biography o… read more
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- russia
- soviet history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- russian history
18. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
By: Oswaldo Zavala
4.08
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- sociology
19. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
By: Terry Martin
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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- russia
- soviet history
- history
- soviet union
- politics
- ukraine
- academic
- nonfiction
- russian history
- sociology
20. Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford Studies in International History)
By: Jeffrey James Byrne
4.38
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution,… read more
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- politics
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21. The Communist Movement in the Arab World (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series)
By: Tareq Y. Ismael
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution… read more
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- politics
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