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Equality And Revolution - Women'S Rights In The Russian Empire, 1905â€“1917

by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

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 Ruthchild's study reveals that Russian feminists were an integral force for revolution and social change, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917.
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Aristotle - Rhetoric Ii: A Commentary

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Religious Orders Of The Catholic Reformation

by Richard Demolen

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 Presents the study of Catholic reform in the sixteenth century. This title includes essays that focus on the religious communities that were founded between 1524, when the Theatines arose, and 1621, when the Piarists were recognized by the papacy as a religious order.
Liberty'S Double-Edged Sword - The Liberum Veto And The Destruction Of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

by Catherine Mckenna

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 Liberty's Double-Edged Sword explores one of the most famous episodes in Polish history, McKenna shows how the earliest and largest republic in Europe was brought crashing down by political leaders who cynically took advantage of the very civil liberties they should have defended.
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An Environmental History Of Krakow - An Ecobiography

by Adam Izdebski

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 Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography.
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Gone To Ground - A History Of Environment And Infrastructure In Dar Es Salaam

by Emily Brownell

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 The story of Dar es Salaam's environment and infrastructure.
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A Mighty Capital Under Threat - The Environmental History Of London, 1800-2000

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 The environmental history of London during the modern and contemporary period.
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Vaclav Havel - A Biography

by David Barton

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 Tells the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. Born into a time of chaos and absurdity, and he took it as his fate to carry a candle into the night. This is his story and the story of other writers, artists, actors, and philosophers who took it upon themselves to remember a tradition that had almost been forgotten.
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The Pope In Poland - The Pilgrimages Of John Paul Ii, 1979-1991

by James Felak

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 John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in over 500 years, and the first Slavic pontiff in history. In this groundbreaking book, James Ramon Felak carefully examines the Popeâ€™s first four visits to his homeland in June of 1979, 1983, 1987, and 1991 in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period.
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The Holocaust In Croatia

by Slavko Goldstein

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 Recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War, with a focus on the city of Zagreb. Ivo and Slavko Goldstein have grounded their study in extensive research in recently opened archives, additionally aided by the memories of survivors to supplement and enrich the interpretation of documents.
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Pale Horse - A Novel Of Revolutionary Russia

by Boris Savinkov e Michael R. Katz

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 Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.
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Religious Freedom In Modern Russia

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 Explores the complex contours and contested meanings of religious freedom in Russia, from 1520 to the 1990s.
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The Soviet Gulag - Evidence, Interpretation And Comparison

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Paul I - A Reassessment Of His Life And Reign

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 The first book-length English language study since 1913 concerning the life of Paul I. It views his background and complex political relations.
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The Moscovia Of Antonio Possevino, S.J. - Translated With A Critical Introduction And Notes By Hugh F. Graham

by Hugh F. Graham

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 This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J., who was sent to negotiate a peace between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
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The Development Of The Dutch Welfare State - From Workers' Insurance To Universal Entitlement

by Robert H. Cox

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 The Dutch welfare system is one of the most benevolent in the world----but this was not always the case. Cox charts the rapid growth of the Dutch welfare system from the nineteenth century onward, comparing it to other nations, and offering theoretical analysis of this remarkable phenomenon.
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Careers In City Politics - The Case For Democracy

by Timothy Bledsoe

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 Provides an in-depth view of the vital aspects of local politics - access to political office, individual office holder's accountability to the public, the performance of councils as collective political bodies, and the often high turnover of personnel.
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Origins Of The Czech National Renascence

by Hugh Lecaine Agnew

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 Develops the argument that Czechoslovakia's national revival of the mid-eighteenth century has its intellectual roots in the Enlightenment and defined the nation's character and development. Hugh Agnew describes how intellectuals in Bohemia and Moravia used their discovery of pre-seventeenth-century history and literature to revive the Czech vernacular and cultivate a popular ethnic consciousness.
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Dead Laws For Dead Men - The Politics Of Federal Coal Mine Health And Safety Legislation

by Daniel J. Curran

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 This account of the struggle for coal mine health and safety legislation in the U.S. examines the series of laws that steadily expanded the role of the federal government from the late 1800s through the 1980s. Curran concludes that federal legislation has done little to improve change conditions in the coal mines.
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The Sec And Capital Market Regulation - The Politics Of Expertise

by Anne M. Khademian

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 Addresses the significance of the SEC for securities policy and uses the agency as a model for the study of bureaucracy and bureaucratic theory. Anne M. Khademian examines the interaction of bureaucrats, politicians and the White House, and connects early debates in the field of public administration with the contemporary arguments of rational choice scholars concerning independence.
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Interests And Institutions - Substance And Structure In American Politics

by Robert Salisbury

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 A collection of essays written by distinguished political scientist Robert Salsibury, a leading analyst of interest group politics. He offers his theories on the workings and influence of groups, organisations, and individuals in many different areas of American politics.
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Varieties Of Marxist Humanism - Philosophical Revision In Postwar Eastern Europe

by James H. Satterwhite

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 Satterwhite analyzes the work of revisionist thinkers in four East European countries whose critique of the orthodox "official" Marxism laid the philosophical groundwork for the 1989-1990 upheavals in Eastern Europe and a reassessment of Marxist thought generally throughout the world.
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Entangled Far Rights - A Russian-European Intellectual Romance In The Twentieth Century

by Marlene Laruelle

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 Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today's authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a running thread through the entire history of the long 20th century and present regardless of the changing political character of Russia's regimes.
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Eurasian Environments - Nature And Ecology In Imperial Russian And Soviet History

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 Takes a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, covering both the Tsarist and Soviet eras, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors.
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