Socialist Escapes
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Socialist Escapes
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Author : Cathleen M. Giustino
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-03-30
Socialist Escapes written by Cathleen M. Giustino and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-30 with History categories.
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and related forms of cultural programming and consumption. They lead to a deeper understanding of state–society relations in the Soviet sphere, where the state did not simply "dictate from above" and inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities, identities, and meaning.
Escape From Communism
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Author : Dumitru Sandru
language : en
Publisher: Chivileri Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-10
Escape From Communism written by Dumitru Sandru and has been published by Chivileri Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Life under communism is cruel and inhumane. Commit the smallest political infraction, and the secret police will arrest you. The only ray of hope is the West, but getting out from communism is difficult. Communist countries have a “Berlin Wall” around them. It is a crime to escape by crossing the border illegally, and anyone caught is beaten and imprisoned, sometimes even shot. I was eighteen, and I was living in hell. However, I would rather have died than keep living as a communist slave. This is my story of what happened and how I reached freedom.
Escape From Socialism
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Author : Walter D. Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Escape From Socialism written by Walter D. Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Poland categories.
Stalked By Socialism
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Author : Jana Kandlova
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2020-06-26
Stalked By Socialism written by Jana Kandlova and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-26 with Political Science categories.
In 1988, 19 year-old Jana Kandlova (aka Jane Benson) escaped from communist Czechoslovakia and came to the United States to live and thrive in a free country. Upon her arrival, her euphoria was so intense she could actually "smell the freedom." But, thirty years later, she has become alarmed and anxious as she witnesses the United States heading towards many of the same socialistic/communist ideals she fought so hard to get away from. In this fascinating story, she sounds a serious warning to all who believe in "free lunch."
Escapes From Cayenne
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Author : Léon Chautard
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2023-09-15
Escapes From Cayenne written by Léon Chautard and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with History categories.
In September 1857, Léon Chautard, Charles Bivors, and Hippolyte Paon arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. These refugees from the French Revolution of 1848 were “homeless, penniless, friendless, strangers in a strange land, among a people of strange speech,” as one of their advocates, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, later put it. The only thing they had was a story to tell—an affecting, yet thrilling story of revolutionary upheaval, forced exile, and hairbreadth escapes over three continents. Following the June Days uprising in Paris, the three French socialists had been transported first to Algeria, then to Cayenne. After years of hard labor, they had escaped the penal colony and made their way to the United States via British Guiana. These experiences brought them into close contact with the colonial frontiers and slave societies of the Americas. In Salem, Chautard soon published an account of their trials under the title Escapes from Cayenne (1857). His pamphlet, which has long sunk into oblivion, deserves rediscovery. Escapes from Cayenne sheds light on the ideological connections between the European “spirit of 1848” and U.S. radical abolitionism and reveals the scope of cosmopolitan solidarities available to fugitives of different national and racial origins in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Written in English by a Frenchman, and reminiscent of literary traditions such as the slave narrative and the picaresque novel, it is a tale of adventure as well as a passionate cri de cœurfor universal justice.
Stalked By Socialism
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Author : Jana Kandlova
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2020-06-26
Stalked By Socialism written by Jana Kandlova and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-26 with categories.
In 1988, 19 year-old Jana Kandlova (aka Jane Benson) escaped from communist Czechoslovakia and came to the United States to live and thrive in a free country. Upon her arrival, her euphoria was so intense she could actually "smell the freedom." But, thirty years later, she has become alarmed and anxious as she witnesses the United States heading towards many of the same socialistic/communist ideals she fought so hard to get away from. In this fascinating story, she sounds a serious warning to all who believe in "free lunch."
Escapes
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Author : Darian Diachok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Escapes written by Darian Diachok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Two Expanding Totalitarian Monsters-Communist Russia and National Socialist Germany-are soon to collide. On the eve of war-at its most devastating in Eastern Europe-a young Ukrainian couple marries, but the two vastly differ from each other. Theo is bookish and brainy, and Steffie is street-smart and world-wise. As World War II begins, Theo is called up during his honeymoon to fight the invading Germans. The Germans massacre his unit and take him captive, but he soon escapes, only to find that the Russians, who've taken over, are arresting all escaped military officers. Though Steffie and Theo's marriage shows early signs of fraying, the challenges they face serve to unite the two and allow them to discover each other's unique traits and abilities. They may differ greatly in character, but in combination they find ways to outwit the enemy-they must, or face the sheer devastation brought about by the collision of the two greatest totalitarian ideologies in world history. Author Darian Diachok brings readers an electrifying and utterly captivating tale of one couple's ability to repeatedly overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. Incredibly rich in historical detail, Escapes illustrates what the gift of family truly meant during a horrific period in history-and just how important it was to establish mutual trust and acceptance.
We Cannot Escape History
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Author : Neil Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
We Cannot Escape History written by Neil Davidson and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with History categories.
Essays on nationalism, revolution, and other relevant topics from the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood. Prize-winning scholar and author Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals, and Marxists.
How China Escaped Shock Therapy
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Author : Isabella M. Weber
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-26
How China Escaped Shock Therapy written by Isabella M. Weber and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-26 with Business & Economics categories.
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketization—but struggled over how to go about it. Should China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope and pace, whereas Russia’s economy collapsed under shock therapy. Based on extensive research, including interviews with key Chinese and international participants and World Bank officials as well as insights gleaned from unpublished documents, the book charts the debate that ultimately enabled China to follow a path to gradual reindustrialization. Beyond shedding light on the crossroads of the 1980s, it reveals the intellectual foundations of state-market relations in reform-era China through a longue durée lens. Overall, the book delivers an original perspective on China’s economic model and its continuing contestations from within and from without.
Socialist Fun
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Author : Gleb Tsipursky
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Socialist Fun written by Gleb Tsipursky and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with History categories.
Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin’s paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community—all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad.