Political ideologies and movements

This study attempts to review the role Panchayati Raj Institutions play in democratising the decision making process at the local levels and in mobilising the people for social and economic development.

There was no representative fascist movement during interwar Europe and there is much to be learned from where fascism 'failed', relatively speaking.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur.

Hugo Ch,vez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian.

While the most conspicuous components of the US Army Air Forces in World War II were the air units, there were also hundreds of ground units and organisations.

Andrews-Lee offers a novel explanation for the persistence of charismatic movements and highlights the resulting challenges for democracy.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

This book aims to reinvigorate the Marxist project and the role it might play in illuminating the way beyond capitalism.

China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking.

Critics of President Obama have attacked him as a socialist, an African-American radical, a big government liberal.

The acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

This book captures the process and implications of decentralized governance established at grassroots level in Tamil Nadu after the introduction of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment.

How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "e;good"e; democracies and "e;bad"e; authoritarian regimes.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

';Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authorityA riveting read' (Donald L.

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny!

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

Originally published in 1999, Higher Education in the Post-Communist World focuses on specific public universities during their, and their nations' early transition years (1989-1995) from communism to democracy and the changes from centrally planned, to free-market economies.

Dieser Band versammelt die Ergebnisse einer Tagung, die von der Professur für Europäische Geschichte des 19.

Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead.

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Illustrated throughout, this volume tells how, of the 325th FG's 537 aerial victories, 202 were scored by its 27 aces.

The war at sea was a key aspect of World War II, one that is too-often under-studied.

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism?

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country's experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II.

In the decades between German unification and the demise of the Weimar Republic, German Jewry negotiated their collective and individual identity under the impression of legal emancipation, continued antisemitism, the emergence of Zionism and Socialism, the First World War, and revolution and the republic.

The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy reveals the truth behind Great Britain’s secret World War II group.

Eye-opening, practical, thoughtful and revolutionary Danny Dorling, author ofPeak InjusticeA birds-eye view of tenant organising that touches down in moving stories of everyday struggle Tracy Rosenthal, co-author ofAbolish RentA brilliant and inspiring analysis of the causes and possible solutions to one of the central issues facing people around the world today: the problem of housing Jeremy Gilbert, author ofTwenty-First Century SocialismAs housing crises proliferate around the world, so does the fightback.

This major work of synthesis presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues at the very root of the troubles in Northern Ireland.

The T-34-85 tank is one of those rare weapons that have remained in service for more than half a century.

Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors-and on twentieth-century American debates about race-Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe.

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M.

Launching Osprey's 'X-Planes' series is a fascinating examination of Hitler's secret weapon.

'I went to the public baths and after I undressed I could hear someone whistling.

This set of essays introduces readers to new historical research on the creation of the new order in East-Central Europe in the period immediately following 1918.

Critical international theory has the task of providing orientation to human beings in better understanding their conditions of existence, how those conditions came to assume their contemporary characteristics, and what immanent potential they might hold for emancipatory transformation.

The end of World War II saw an emergence of Holocaust dissention that began in Europe and has since developed into an international movement with adherents in almost every country in the world.

Social Opulence and Private Restraint is a study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New Times' Marxism, to the consumer-focused New Labourism and political economies critical of consumerism that can be found in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Left.

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934.

'Victor Failmezger's passion for the city of Rome is matched by his extensive knowledge of its dark recent past.

Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune.