The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution …
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1. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
By: David M. Glantz , Jonathan M. House
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg ha… read more
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- russia
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- russian history
2. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
3. Sofia Petrovna
By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth
4.04
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more
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4. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
By: Orlando Figes
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it … read more
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5. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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6. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- history
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8. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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- european history
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9. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more
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- russian history
10. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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- russian history
11. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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12. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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13. Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
By: Karl Marx , Ben Fowkes , Ernest Mandel
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close stud… read more
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14. What Is to Be Done?
By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more
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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
15. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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16. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
By: Orlando Figes
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orl… read more
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17. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
18. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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19. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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20. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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21. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
