Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy.

Here, Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall.

The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

A literary guide to one of the most fascinating countries in the world.

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope.

80 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von Trotzkis Buch über die Februarrevolution und 30 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der letzten vollständigen Ausgabe der 'Geschichte der Russischen Revolution' ist mit dieser Neuausgabe einesder bedeutendsten historischen Werke des 20.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

El 12 de abril de 1931 se celebraron unas elecciones municipales en España que cambiarían el curso de nuestra historia.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages.

Since the Second World War, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faced periods of extensive state repression, between 1948-1951 and 1954-1970 and again after 2013.

Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level.

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The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven paintersDing Cong (19162009), Feng Zikai (18981975), Li Keran (190789), Li Kuchan (18981983), Huang Yongyu (b.

In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers.

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world's leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "e;Communism"e; and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders.

In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States.

The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

The twentieth century in Europe was characterized by great moments of rupture, such as two world wars, ideological conflict, and political polarization.

At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American.

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences.

This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.

Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War-era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years.

Writing the Revolution is a microhistory of a middle-class Parisian woman, Rosalie Jullien, whose nearly 1,000 familiar letters have never before been studied.

On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down.

Boris Godunow – eine der faszinierendsten und zugleich kontroversesten Figuren der russischen Geschichte.

Brunei has long been associated with massive oil resources and the stability that its wealth can guarantee.

In einer der turbulentesten Epochen deutscher Geschichte stand ein Mann im Zentrum des politischen Geschehens, dessen Wirken bis heute nachhallt: Maximilian von Baden.

A chance encounter diverted Abdolreza Ansari from completing his PHD in the US, and set him on a professional journey which mirrored the prolific rise and the precipitous fall of the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves.

Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime.

Arming the Irish Revolution is an in-depth investigation of the successes and failures of the militant Irish republican efforts to arm themselves.

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century.

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation.

Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities.

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians.

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin.

In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war.

80 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von Trotzkis Buch über die Februarrevolution und 30 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der letzten vollständigen Ausgabe der 'Geschichte der Russischen Revolution' ist mit dieser Neuausgabe einesder bedeutendsten historischen Werke des 20.

In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "e; Ya basta!

In einer Zeit des Umbruchs und der kolonialen Eroberung erhebt sich Túpac Amaru als letzter König der Inkas, um das Erbe seines Volkes gegen die übermächtige spanische Kolonialherrschaft zu verteidigen.

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror'.

This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution.

In August 1644, at the height of the First English Civil War, John Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, raised the standard of Royalist rebellion in Scotland.