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  • The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926

    Ten Years That Shook the World

    by Jonathan Smele ...
    This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism

    by Jonathan Smele ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Smele ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917. To understand the Russian Revolution, then, is to understand a key building block of modern history and the contemporary world. Senior lecturer and renowned Russian researcher Dr. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A History of Education in Modern Russia

    Aims, Ways, Outcomes

    by Professor Wayne Dowler, Dr. Jonathan Smele, Professor Emeritus Michael S. Melancon ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day.Individual chapters open with an overview of the political, social, diplomatic and cultural environment of the period in order to orient the reader. Dowler then goes on to analyse the aims of education ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

    2 Volumes

    by Jonathan D. Smele ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the ... Read more

    $303.79 USD

  • The Russian Revolution of 1905

    Centenary Perspectives

    Edited by Anthony J. Heywood, Jonathan D. Smele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ‘first revolution’ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great Britain.Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." ... Read more

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  • The Greek Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Lord ...
    The Greek War of Independence was fought against the occupying Ottoman Turks from 1821-1832. Started in part by the Filiki Eteria movement in Greece, uprising 1821 soon lead to a full scale war. By 1828, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged their support to Greece and helped defeat the Turks. In 1832, Greece was recognized as an independent country. Greek Independence day is ... Read more

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  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

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  • Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

    by Marcus Tanner ...
    From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between pro-independence forces and the Yugoslav army left about one-third of the country in ruins and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Napoleon

    by Alistair Horne ...
    The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time.Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica, he rose to prominence in the turbulent years following the French Revolution, when most of Europe was arrayed against France. Through a string of ... Read more

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