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America in Vietnamby Guenter LewyISBN 0195027329 (0-19-502732-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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America in Vietnam: Illusion, Myth and Realityby Guenter LewyISBN 0195023919 (0-19-502391-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Anti-Soviet Soviet Unionby Vladimir VoinovichISBN 0151078408 (0-15-107840-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Assaultby Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew HurleyISBN 0140157182 (0-14-015718-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assault'Book summary:In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the "Bureau of Counterwhispering"," The Assault follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers, sexual deviants, and dissidents of every sort--until memory has been banished and spoken language has been nearly forgotten.[via]More editions of The Assault:
The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessonsby Mikhail GorbachevISBN 0060923423 (0-06-092342-3)
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Bend Sinisterby Vladimir NabokovISBN 007045728X (0-07-045728-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bend Sinister'Book summary:The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the countrys foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the gov- ernment attempts to co-opt Krugs support in order to validate the new regime. One of the twentieth centurys master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. John Updike [via]
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060898526 (0-06-089852-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Idris Parry, J. A. UnderwookISBN 0140185046 (0-14-018504-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Chinese Shadowsby Simon LeysISBN 0140047875 (0-14-004787-5)
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Desolation And Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaustby Ira KatznelsonISBN 0231111959 (0-231-11195-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract: And, the Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher BettsISBN 0192835971 (0-19-283597-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Du Contrat Socialby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ronald GrimsleyISBN 019815710X (0-19-815710-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Contrat Social'Book summary:Qu'est-ce que le citoyen attend ou devrait attendre de l'État en échange de l'obéissance à ses lois ? Le propos de Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans son Contrat social, publié en 1762, est de déduire la forme constitutionnelle de l'État légitime, la République. L'ouvrage expose à la fois les grands principes de cette République et les raisons qui en font une réalité historique condamnée à disparaître. À l'heure où il écrit, Rousseau, tourné vers le modèle des cités antiques, est convaincu que la liberté politique appartient à une époque révolue depuis longtemps. Les récentes innovations parlementaires anglaises ne font que confirmer à ses yeux le nécessaire déclin républicain : dans les sociétés libérales modernes, les intérêts de l'individu privé l'emportent en effet sur la vertu citoyenne.
Texte politique d'une grande rigueur, l'ouvrage Du Contrat social doit davantage se lire comme la critique anticipée des démocraties contemporaines que comme un manifeste militant pour une quelconque cause révolutionnaire. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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The Emperorby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0151287716 (0-15-128771-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor'Book summary:Haile Selassie, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, enjoyed a 44-year reign until his own army gave him the boot in 1974. In the days following the coup, the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traveled to Ethiopia and sought out members of the imperial court for interviews.
His composite portrait of Selassie's crumbling imperium is an astonishing, wildly funny creation, beginning with the very first interview. "It was a small dog," recalls an anonymous functionary, "a Japanese breed. His name was Lulu. He was allowed to sleep in the Emperor's great bed. During various ceremonies, he would run away from the Emperor's lap and pee on dignitaries' shoes. The august gentlemen were not allowed to flinch or make the slightest gesture when they felt their feet getting wet. I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." (Well, it's a living.)
Elsewhere, the interviewees venture into tragic or grotesque or downright unbelievable terrain. Kapuscinski has shaped their testimonies into an eloquent whole, and while he never alludes to the totalitarian regime that ruled his native Poland during the same period, the analogy is impossible to ignore. [via]
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evilby Ron RosenbaumISBN 006095339X (0-06-095339-X)
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The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan Warby Misha GlennyISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Fascism: Past, Present, Futureby Walter LaqueurISBN 019511793X (0-19-511793-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fascism: Past, Present, Future'Book summary:The history and theory of fascism has been explored in a great number of studies, yet its foundations and essential characteristics remain largely undefined. One reason for this confusion is fascism's distracting ideological neighbors: totalitarianism, nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism, and imperialism. In Fascism: Past, Present, Future, Walter Laqueur--a prolific writer, journalist, and historian--directs his keen attention to the resurgence of fascist parties in Russia, Austria, and France, while pointing toward the Middle East as a potential seedbed of future fascist developments.
Laqueur's assessment benefits greatly from his historical and scholarly knowledge of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He is at his best on this historical ground. As Laqueur ventures into prescriptive forecasting, the conceptual outline breaks down and he develops tangential discussions of arms proliferation and religious fundamentalism. While our knowledge of the past, present, and future dangers of fascism are greatly increased by Laqueur's book, it adds only incrementally to our understanding of fascism itself. [via]
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitlerby Victoria BarnettISBN 019512118X (0-19-512118-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Four Essays on Libertyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0192810340 (0-19-281034-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Essays on Liberty'Book summary:The four essays are `Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'; `Historical Inevitability', which the Economist described as `a magnificent assertion of the reality of human freedom, of the role of free choice in history'; `Two Concepts of Liberty', a ringing manifesto for pluralism and individual freedom; and `John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life'. There is also a long and masterly introduction written specially for this collection, in which the author replies to his critics. This book is intended for students from undergraduate level upwards studying philosophy, history, politics. Admirers of Isaiah Berlin's writings. [via]
Giraffeby J. M. LedgardISBN 0224076892 (0-224-07689-2)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985by John King FairbankISBN 006039076X (0-06-039076-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A History of Russiaby Nicholas Valentine RiasanovskyISBN 0195021290 (0-19-502129-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Russia'Book summary:The new edition of this work has been updated to the death of Brezhnev and the succession of Andropov, and the section on Russian relations with Poland and Afghanistan has been thoroughly revised. [via]
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A History of Russiaby Mark D. Steinberg, Nicholas Valentine RiasanovskyISBN 0195153944 (0-19-515394-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The History of Russia: Since 1855by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. SteinbergISBN 0195153936 (0-19-515393-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reichby Ian Kershaw, Detlev Peukert, Gerhard WilkeISBN 0192802062 (0-19-280206-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich'Book summary:Before writing the first volume of his substantial biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw focused on the popular appeal of the Nazi dictator in The "Hitler Myth". Arguing that "the sources of Hitler's appeal must be sought ... in those who adored him, rather than in the leader himself," Kershaw shows how Hitler's public image welded together antagonistic forces within the Nazi state, mobilized the nation for war, and contributed to the ethos that animated systematic and genocidal violence.
Responding to historians who maintain that Hitler's personality or ideological fixations accounted for his broad acceptance, Kershaw argues that, in the early 1930s, a sizable plurality of Germans hungered for an omnipotent Führer to stand above the political disharmonies of the Weimar state. Later, foreign policy and military victories attracted many more to the Hitler legend. However, victories were the price for popularity; and Hitler became more and more bloodthirsty as both his image and regime foundered under the blows of the Allied powers. The Hitler myth, then--a cultural phenomenon the Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels claimed as his greatest propaganda triumph--became a fundamental cause for the collapse of the Nazi State.
Kershaw's authoritative history of political culture in Hitler's Germany forcefully demonstrates that the Führer's popularity rested less on "bizarre and arcane precepts of Nazi ideology than on social and political values ... recognizable in many societies other than the Third Reich." In our present political environment, which repeatedly features outcries for "leadership" from pundits and public servants alike, the disturbing lessons of The "Hitler Myth" are an urgent warning. --James Highfill [via]
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Intellectualsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060916575 (0-06-091657-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectuals'Book summary:Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on his sleeve in this often ruthless dissection of the thinkers and artists who (in his view) have shaped modern Western culture, having replaced some 200 years ago "the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind." Taking on the likes of Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Noam Chomsky in turn, Johnson examines one idol after another and finds them all to have feet of clay. In his account, for instance, Ernest Hemingway emerges as an artistic hero who labored endlessly to forge a literary style unmistakably his own, but also as a deeply flawed man whose concern for the perfect phrase did not carry over to a concern for the women who loved him. Gossipy and sharply opinionated, Johnson's essay in cultural history spares no one.
Does it really matter that Henrik Ibsen was vain and arrogant, that Jean-Paul Sartre was incontinent? In Johnson's view, it does: these all-too-human foibles disqualify them, and other thinkers, from presuming to criticize the shortcomings of society. "Beware intellectuals," he concludes (though, given the subjects of his book, it seems he means intellectuals only of the left). "Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Whether one agrees or not, Johnson's profiles are frequently amusing and illuminating, as when he suggests that the only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him for decades and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Jokeby Milan KunderaISBN 006099505X (0-06-099505-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joke'Book summary:The first definitive, complete edition of the author's classic first novel presents a tale of love, politics, revenge, and the fate of individuals in contemporary society. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo. [via]
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Journey into the Whirlwindby Eugenia GinzburgISBN 0156027518 (0-15-602751-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Kolyma: The Arctic Death Campsby Oxford UnivISBN 0192850911 (0-19-285091-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Land Without Justiceby Milovan DilasISBN 0156481170 (0-15-648117-0)
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Main Currents of Marxism: The Breakdownby Leszek KolakowskiISBN 0192851098 (0-19-285109-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mao Zedongby Jonathan SpenceISBN 0143037722 (0-14-303772-2)
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0141180145 (0-14-118014-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:[via]Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine Moskva. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.
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Memories of a Tatar Childhoodby Giuzel AmalrikISBN 0091398908 (0-09-139890-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eightiesby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060935502 (0-06-093550-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties'Book summary:The history of the 20th century is marked by two great narratives: nations locked in savage wars over ideology and territory, and scientists overturning the received wisdom of preceding generations. For Paul Johnson, the modern era begins with one of the second types of revolutions, in 1919, when English astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington translated observations from a solar eclipse into proof of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which turned Newtonian physics on its head. Eddington's research became an international cause célèbre: "No exercise in scientific verification, before or since, has ever attracted so many headlines or become a topic of universal conversation," Johnson writes, and it made Einstein into science's first real folk hero.
Einstein looms large over Johnson's narrative, as do others who sought to harness the forces of nature and society: men like Mao Zedong, "a big, brutal, earthy and ruthless peasant," and Adolf Hitler, creator of "a brutal, secure, conscience-less, successful, and, for most Germans, popular regime." Johnson takes a contentious conservative viewpoint throughout: he calls the 1960s "America's suicide attempt," deems the Watergate affair "a witch-hunt ... run by liberals in the media," and deems the rise of Margaret Thatcher a critical element in Western civilization's "recovery of freedom"--arguable propositions all, but ones advanced in a stimulating and well-written narrative that provides much food for thought in the course of its more than 800 pages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Mortal Dangerby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0060908297 (0-06-090829-7)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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My Mind on Trialby Eugen LoeblISBN 0156638002 (0-15-663800-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Nazismby Neil GregorISBN 0192892819 (0-19-289281-9)
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The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Centuryby Francois Furet, Deborah FuretISBN 0226273415 (0-226-27341-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Plato: Republicby Plato, Desmond LeeISBN 0140440488 (0-14-044048-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato: Republic'Book summary:The Republic is arguably the greatest of Plato's dialogues. Although its subject is the ideal state, it encompasses education, psychology, ethics and politics. In the Republic's central passage, Plato uses myth to explore the nature of reality, conveying a vision of the human predicament and the role of philosophy in setting us free. He imagines a cave whose inhabitants are chained from birth watching a shadow-play that they take for reality. The role of philosophy, and more specifically what Plato calls dialectic, is to turn us away from the shadow play and orient ourselves towards the real. This is the essence of the pursuit of wisdom without which an ideal state is impossible. Few modern readers will agree with everything that Plato says, yet his rigorous argument and poetic vision still have the power to stimulate and challenge. This enduring power has made The Republic one of the foundation stones of western culture. [via]
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The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianismby Claude Lefort, John B. ThompsonISBN 0262121174 (0-262-12117-4)
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Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928-1978by Paul HollanderISBN 0060910291 (0-06-091029-1)
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Prisoner of Maoby Ruo-Wang BaoISBN 0140041125 (0-14-004112-5)
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The Republicby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192833707 (0-19-283370-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:Plato's "Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? "The Republic" also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as 'guardians' of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by 'philosopher kings'. [via]
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The Republic of Platoby Plato, Richard W. Sterling, William C. ScottISBN 0195003640 (0-19-500364-0)
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Revolutionary Struggle, 1947-1958by Fidel Castro, Nelson P. ValdesISBN 0262520273 (0-262-52027-3)
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Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreamsby David K. ShiplerISBN 0140074082 (0-14-007408-2)
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The Russian Revolutionby Robert Vincent DanielsISBN 0137847939 (0-13-784793-9)
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Scum of the Earthby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0090872800 (0-09-087280-0)
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice CranstonISBN 0140442014 (0-14-044201-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Contract'Book summary:[via]The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
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Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Recordby Leopold LabedzISBN 0140033955 (0-14-003395-5)
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Soviet Union Since Stalinby Stephen CohenISBN 0253202361 (0-253-20236-1)
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The Ss, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945by Gerald ReitlingerISBN 0138399360 (0-13-839936-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ss, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945'Book summary:The SSshort for the German Schutzstaffelnwas a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served as the tyrannical expression of Nazi bureaucracy, a politics of terror. Germans in high places still use the SS as a standard excuse for the acts of murder, extortion, and genocide that were facts of daily life under the Nazis. Reitlinger explores the complex social machinery that allowed the SS to operatethe administration and internal rivalries, the SS field divisions, German military intelligence, and the organization of the concentration and death camps. He shows how the SS was embedded in the basic government of the country during those years and how its members were not so much lunatic killers as loyal citizens doing the bidding of a country that had gone insane. Powerful, objective, and based on original German documents and interviewsincluding information from Himmlers statisticianthis book rejects the SS as an alibi for a nations responsibility in the most far-reaching racial massacre in history.[via]More editions of The Ss, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945:
Stalin: Breaker of Nationsby Robert ConquestISBN 0140169539 (0-14-016953-9)
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Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty The New York Times Man in Moscowby Sally J. TaylorISBN 0195057007 (0-19-505700-7)
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovichby Danilo Kis, Duska Mikic-MitchellISBN 0140054529 (0-14-005452-9)
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The Totalitarian Temptationby Jean-Francois RevelISBN 0140048413 (0-14-004841-3)
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Twenty Letters to a Friendby Svetlana AlliluyevaISBN 0060100990 (0-06-010099-0)
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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984by Andrei AmalrikISBN 0060907320 (0-06-090732-0)
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Nezhelannoe Puteshestvie V Sibirby Andrei AmalrikISBN 0151455031 (0-15-145503-1)
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