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The Lost World Of Communism
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Author : Peter Molloy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Lost World Of Communism written by Peter Molloy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Beginning in Hungary, the retreat from communism picked up speed over the summer when the Poles won an overwhelming victory in free elections over their pro-Soviet rulers. In the fall, East Germany and Czechoslovakia achieved freedom with surprisingly little violence. Only Romania, at the end of the year, witnessed a savage battle in the capital and the summary execution of the most notorious of Eastern Europe's dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu. In The Lost World of Communism, Peter Molloy, producer of the accompanying BBC series, collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals an astonishingly rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption - in fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From international figures like Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, via the shadowy figures of Eastern Europe's intelligence and security services to its 'ordinary' citizens, the voices collected on Peter Molloy's book evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world of that vanished almost overnight.
The Lost World Of British Communism
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Author : Raphael Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2006-11-17
The Lost World Of British Communism written by Raphael Samuel and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-17 with History categories.
The Lost World of British Communismis a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London's East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives. He evokes the world of British Communism in the 1940s, when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, and raises prophetic questions about socialist motivation, collective identity, and historicizing the Communist past.
Bloc Life
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Author : Peter Molloy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-06-06
Bloc Life written by Peter Molloy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with History categories.
There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.
The Lost World Of Communism
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Author : Peter Molloy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12-23
The Lost World Of Communism written by Peter Molloy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-23 with categories.
The Black Book Of Communism
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Author : Stéphane Courtois
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Black Book Of Communism written by Stéphane Courtois and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Landscapes Of Communism
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Author : Owen Hatherley
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Landscapes Of Communism written by Owen Hatherley and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with History categories.
When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist idea. The regimes that built them are now dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to postrevolutionary Kiev, the buildings remain, often populated by people whose lives were scattered by the collapse of communism. Landscapes of Communism is a journey of historical discovery, plunging us into the lost world of socialist architecture. Owen Hatherley, a brilliant, witty, young urban critic shows how power was wielded in these societies by tracing the sharp, sudden zigzags of official communist architectural style: the superstitious despotic rococo of high Stalinism, with its jingoistic memorials, palaces, and secret policemen’s castles; East Germany’s obsession with prefabricated concrete panels; and the metro systems of Moscow and Prague, a spectacular vindication of public space that went further than any avant-garde ever dared. Throughout his journeys across the former Soviet empire, Hatherley asks what, if anything, can be reclaimed from the ruins of Communism—what residue can inform our contemporary ideas of urban life?
A Documentary History Of Communism Communism And The World
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Author : Robert Vincent Daniels
language : en
Publisher: University of Vermont Press
Release Date : 1984
A Documentary History Of Communism Communism And The World written by Robert Vincent Daniels and has been published by University of Vermont Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Political Science categories.
A Road Is Made
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Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
A Road Is Made written by Stephen Anthony Smith and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Political Science categories.
"The book culminates in a detailed analysis of the three armed uprisings which led to the CCP's briefly taking power in March 1927, before being crushed by the troops of Chiang Kai-shek. The study highlights the extent to which the Soviet Union sought to control China's national revolution, yet also reveals how divisions at every level of the Comintern allowed the CCP to achieve a degree of independence and to conduct a policy at considerable variance with that laid down by Moscow." "In addition to using the wealth of Chinese material that has become available since the 1980s, this study is the first to make use of the Comintern materials that have become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.
The Romance Of American Communism
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Author : Vivian Gornick
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Romance Of American Communism written by Vivian Gornick and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public.
The Lost World Of Socialists At Europe S Margins
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Author : Maria Todorova
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-03
The Lost World Of Socialists At Europe S Margins written by Maria Todorova and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with History categories.
Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time. The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.