Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.
This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century.
This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century.
'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.
A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes, their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance.
For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.
For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.
The #1 NYT BESTSELLERA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.
A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes, their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance.
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade.
En esta novela el autor explora el origen del mal y la locura, a traves de la violencia que han ejercido los regimenes dictatoriales en America Latina.
Apenas finalizó la guerra, la Junta Militar ya casi en retirada logró organizar un relato oficial sobre lo sucedido en Malvinas, que presentó el conflicto bélico como una "gesta heroica", ocultó la impericia militar y especialmente dejó fuera del radar las experiencias traumáticas que habían atravesado los soldados en el frente.
This gripping book by the prominent Russian journalist and analyst Sergey Shelin aims to explain why most Russians suddenly "e;understood"e; the need to attack Ukraine and Europe and are confident that their country is on the right path.
Como cualquier otra expresión artística, el teatro siempre es "político" en el sentido de que contiene ideas acerca de los problemas sociales, sobre cómo resolverlos o valorarlos.
This book investigates the historical trajectory of postcolonial Sierra Leone, especially the persistence of a culture of political violence and autocratic tendencies.
Petroleum and Politics in Iraq: The Struggle for the State investigates how oil wealth, elite power struggles and foreign intervention have shaped the fragile nature of the modern Iraqi state.
This book investigates the historical trajectory of postcolonial Sierra Leone, especially the persistence of a culture of political violence and autocratic tendencies.
Petroleum and Politics in Iraq: The Struggle for the State investigates how oil wealth, elite power struggles and foreign intervention have shaped the fragile nature of the modern Iraqi state.
The military coup d'etat that convulsed Chile on September 11, 1973, and led to the suicide of then-President Salvador Allende was a dramatic interruption of institutional life in one of the world's oldest and most stable democracies.
The military coup d'etat that convulsed Chile on September 11, 1973, and led to the suicide of then-President Salvador Allende was a dramatic interruption of institutional life in one of the world's oldest and most stable democracies.
La vision que predomina sobre la ultima dictadura militar afirma que el presidente de facto -Videla y quienes lo sucedieron- tenia la primacia de las decisiones politicas, mientras el ministro de Economia, Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, concentraba todas las estrategias economicas.
Das unbekannte Ende der NaziherrschaftDer packende Schlusspunkt des »Dritten Reiches« – dramatische Wochen zwischen Diktatur und BefreiungDas »Dritte Reich« ist gefallen – doch die Geschichte steht nicht still.
