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Nimtz uncovers in one that attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organisation, and as a key way to measure your forces and communicate with the wider population. As radical left reformist projects, exemplified by Sanders and Corbyn, once again become a political force and the left has to think about...
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Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by step, real people made a revolution.
After the Tea Party, Parliament not only shut down a port but also revoked the sacred Massachusetts charter. Completely...
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The history of Cairo's football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. and Zamalek F.C respectively, became embroiled in the street protests that brought down the Mubarak regime. In the violent turmoil since, the Ultras have been locked in a bitter conflict with the Egyptian security state. Tracing these...
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The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as 'revolutionary industrial unionism' and the members called, affectionately, 'Wobblies'.
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The greatest event of the 20th-century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917.
The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism.
Lenin's socialism and the Russian Revolution's many decrees reverberated across the world and changed the lives of every person on this planet as we know it today: equal opportunity for all; women were equal to men in voting, in education,...
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Dong Guoqiang is professor of history at Fudan University in Shanghai. Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where he is also a senior fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute of International Studies.
A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural Revolution
A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political...
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In the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. This is Blanqui's story.
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The ruins of Daniel Shays's fortified settlement reveal the hidden story of the famous rebellion. Shays and the Regulators founded the settlement deep in the Vermont wilderness after fleeing the uprising they led in 1787 in Massachusetts. Rediscovered in 1997 and under study since 2013, these remnants divulge secrets of Shays' life that previously remained unknown, including his connection to Millard Filmore and the Anti-Federalist lawyer John Bay....
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An overview of modern Western militaries' response to armed rebellion, from Indochina to Northern Ireland to Iraq.
Counterinsurgency-or efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority-has become a buzzword in recent times, but the term is as old as society itself. This concise history covers the development of modern counterinsurgency over the last two hundred years, from the concept of "small wars" and colonial warfare...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre las manifestaciones de la plaza de Tiananmén, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Entender el contexto en que se producen las manifestaciones de la plaza de Tiananmén, en la China comunista de la época posmaoísta
• Analizar las biografías de los principales actores implicados en las órdenes...
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Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Fein proclaims Dail Eireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerrilla war breaks out between republican and crown forces. Michael Collins, intelligence chief of the Irish Republican Army, creates an elite squad whose role is to assassinate British agents and undercover police. The so-called 'Twelve Apostles' will create violent mayhem, culminating...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Napoleon Bonaparte in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, France was in a state of division and anarchy, and in desperate need of a leader. Napoleon Bonaparte, an unlikely candidate from a humble Corsican background, rose through the ranks to rule not only over France,...
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Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level.
This book is a comprehensive historical and political analysis of the three major ruptures; the People's Liberation Struggle during World War Two, the self-management model and the Non-Aligned Movement....
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les manifestations de la place Tian'anmen en moins d'une heure !
Si en Occident, le nom de Tian'anmen est généralement associé aux massacres qui s'y sont produits durant la nuit du 3 au 4 juin 1989, en Chine, l'événement est entièrement passé sous silence par le parti communiste qui évoque tout au plus un groupe de soldats ayant dû faire face à quelques émeutiers. La censure y est rude et...
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On the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, paeans to the conquering Bolsheviks will be sung. Bloodstained highlights the darker echoes coming from that event, with a mixture of classic and new essays that expose a murderous dictatorship as it developed, paving the way for Stalin, Mao, Castro, and others to slaughter and starve their opponents. The defense of this criminal enterprise, later categorized as "actually existing socialism," ends here....
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On April 19, 1775, British raids on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge made history, but it was an episode nearly two months earlier in Salem, Massachusetts, that set the stage for the hostilities. Peter Charles Hoffer has discovered records and newspaper accounts of a British gunpowder raid on Salem. Seeking powder and cannon hidden in the town, a regiment of British Regulars were foiled by quick-witted patriots who carried off the ordnance and then...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Napoleón Bonaparte, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir la vida de Napoleón y el contexto en el que vivió, marcado por la expansión francesa en un mundo dividido en coaliciones
• Entender los momentos clave para la llegada al poder de Napoleón y la formación de su Imperio, tras numerosas...
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During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Napoléon Bonaparte en moins d'une heure!
Qui mieux que Napoléon Bonaparte incarne le pouvoir de la volonté? Issu d'un milieu modeste, son ascension est fulgurante. Il devient général de la Révolution à 26 ans, chef du gouvernement à 30 ans et empereur à 35 ans. Il ne faudra pas moins de sept coalitions formées par divers alliés européens pour faire chuter ce géant de l'histoire. C'est que...
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This comprehensive chronicle of the Russian Revolution is told through the eyewitness accounts of journalists, political leaders, and ordinary citizens.
More than a century ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring,...
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