The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services.
This book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed Ekologiya - which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Muchos analistas creían, cuando se aprobó la Ley 135 de 1961, que la mala distribución de la tierra tenía efectos muy negativos sobre el crecimiento y sobre la tranquilidad del país.
The World Today Series: Russia and Eurasia deals with twelve sovereign states that became independent following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 HWA NON-FICTION CROWN AWARD*'Immensely readable, emotional and important'KAVITA PURI'A poignant exploration of empire, community and family'AANCHAL MALHOTRA'Full of the sights, smells and tastes of what most remember as a lost utopia'SPECTATORUganda, August 1972.
In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast.
The England We Know: Russian Voices Abroad is based on a series of interviews, recorded between 2019 and 2021, with twelve Russophone immigrants—those who have achieved success and those who haven’t, the well-educated and the blue-collar—interpolated with the author’s memoir.
Up until recently, Europe's three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed collectively during or shortly after the First World War.
Drawing on the rich trove of recently declassified Russian and Chinese archival materials, this history of Sino-Soviet relations in the 20th century sheds new light on key events during this period.