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  • EPZ Terrorism

    The New World Disorder

    by Professor Nicholas Fotion, Professor Boris Kashnikov, Dr Joanne K. Lekea ...
    Series series Think Now
    Terrorism poses an undeniable threat to societies throughout the world today. Martyr terrorism, the fastest growing form of terrorist activity, and arguably the most effective, has become a regular occurrence. But how has terrorist activity evolved in the last 100 years, and what are the ethical costs of terrorism?In this informative book, three philosophers, all experts on the ethics of conflict, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution

    Edited by Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Swain, Dr Charlotte Alston, Professor Michael C. Hickey, Dr Franziska Schedewie, Professor Boris Kolonitskii ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • For The Motherland! For Stalin!

    A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front

    by Boris Bogachev, Professor Geoffrey Roberts, Maria Bogacheva ...
    Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with food shortages, inadequate equipment and fear - not only of the well-armed enemy ahead, but also of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Orderly and Humane

    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

    by R. M. Douglas ...
    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million ... Read more

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  • The War of the World

    Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington PostAstonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Nia... ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    “A primer intended for readers unfamiliar with the territory, it sparkles with ideas, vivid storytelling, poignant anecdotes, and pithy phrases . . . Fresh and dramatic.” —The Sunday Times (London)Winner of the UK's prestigious Wolfson History PrizeAn original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stalin

    Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale—the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history’s most destructive war, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Barbarism and Civilization

    A History of Europe in our Time

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Russia in Revolution

    An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

    by S. A. Smith ...
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD