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Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is an exporation of a promising theory that, when put into practice, wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
26) The passport
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
93 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
33) Soul
Author
Publisher
Harvill
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 161 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
37) Political power and personal freedom: critical studies in democracy, communism, and civil rights
Author
Publisher
Criterion Books
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 462 pages).
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xii, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, the author takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism, that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on, he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (513 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Works from a group of directors that used film to speak out about the hypocrisy and absurdity of the Communist state.
Pearls of the deep: These five eccentric tales take the viewer on a journey from a motorcycle race to a rain-soaked wedding party to an unexpected cross-cultural romance.
Daisies: Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin's death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media—and therefore the world—the Russians
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