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Life Under Tyranny
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Author : Peter Goldade
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Life Under Tyranny written by Peter Goldade and has been published by Xlibris Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with categories.
The non-fiction book, "Life Under Tyranny" provides historical information about life under a tyrannical government. Newly available released documents from Ukrainian Archives in Odessa, Ukraine, detail the atrocities Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin perpetrated on ethnic Germans living in Ukraine, covering the years from the Russian Revolution to the beginning of World War II. Goldade, with the assistance of associates in Odessa, Ukraine, has retrieved numerous documents from Ukrainian archives covering this dark era. Peter Goldade's Life Under Tyranny sheds new light on Soviet confiscation of property, deprivations inflicted, and the kangaroo courts that sentenced untold numbers of people to prison, hard labor, gulags-or execution.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Witold Szabłowski
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-26
Dancing Bears written by Witold Szabłowski and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with History categories.
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Witold Szablowski
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Dancing Bears written by Witold Szablowski and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with History categories.
*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered* “Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom An incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, by the acclaimed author of How to Feed a Dictator For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule. From the Introduction: “Guys with wacky hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”
The Tyranny Of Merit
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Author : Michael J. Sandel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-10
The Tyranny Of Merit written by Michael J. Sandel and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-10 with Political Science categories.
A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers "Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of Educated These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump. Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
Life Under Tyranny
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Author : Peter Goldade
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Life Under Tyranny written by Peter Goldade and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with History categories.
The non-fiction book, “Life Under Tyranny” provides historical information about life under a tyrannical government. Newly available released documents from Ukrainian Archives in Odessa, Ukraine, detail the atrocities Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin perpetrated on ethnic Germans living in Ukraine, covering the years from the Russian Revolution to the beginning of World War II. Goldade, with the assistance of associates in Odessa, Ukraine, has retrieved numerous documents from Ukrainian archives covering this dark era. Peter Goldade’s Life Under Tyranny sheds new light on Soviet confiscation of property, deprivations inflicted, and the kangaroo courts that sentenced untold numbers of people to prison, hard labor, gulags—or execution.
On Tyranny
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Author : Timothy Snyder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-03-02
On Tyranny written by Timothy Snyder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Political Science categories.
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close’ Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so.
From Tyranny To Liberty
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Author : Bill Suhayda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-15
From Tyranny To Liberty written by Bill Suhayda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Tyranny to Liberty tells a compelling family history... "Béla Suhayda and his family have enjoyed a prosperous life in the United States. But that prosperity and freedom only came about because of his parents' strong commitment, and a willingness to risk their lives to make it happen. From Tyranny to Liberty is the story of a family's escape from a post-World War II Hungary controlled by communist Russia. They fled a tyrannical government in order to experience what the free world had to offer. Those caught attempting to flee the Hungarian borders during this time period were often shot for their betrayal to country. The story follows the family's suspenseful exit, and chronicles their journey, eventually planting roots in Aurora, Ill. The attached biographies show glimpses into the lives of the family and their closest friends in a war torn region. From Tyranny to Liberty tells a compelling family history, but also serves as an excellent reference for anyone looking to discern the differences between living in a free society, and living under strict communist control. It provides a glimpse into what really happened in Russian controlled territories following the end of World War II. This is a book those interested in both the past and the future of our great country will want to read."-Matthew Brennan, Owner/Writer at Matthew L. Brennan Freelance Writing From Tyranny to Liberty tells a compelling family history, but also serves as an excellent reference for anyone looking to discern the differences between living in a free society, and living under strict communist control. It provides a glimpse into what really happened in Russian controlled territories following the end of World War II. This is a book those interested in both the past and the future of our great country will want to read.
Your Money Or Your Life
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Author : Eric Toussaint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Your Money Or Your Life written by Eric Toussaint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
Globalization brings growth? Think again. Debt--engineered by the IMF and World Bank--sucks countries dry.
The Tyranny Of Experts
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Author : William Easterly
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-04
The Tyranny Of Experts written by William Easterly and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with Political Science categories.
In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.
Writing Under Tyranny
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Author : Greg Walker
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-10-20
Writing Under Tyranny written by Greg Walker and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production of late-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance.