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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…Ross Johnson -- Eastern Europe in 1989. Communism and nationalism before and after 1989 / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob ; Where was the Serbian Havel? …”
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Toward a Marxist anthropology problems and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The structuralist constraint -- pt. 3. Primitive communism as theory and critique -- pt. 4. African perspectives -- pt. 5. …”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Body horror and post-socialist cinema: Gyorgy Polfis Taxidermia / Steven Shaviro -- El perro negro: transnational readings of database documentaries from Spain / Marsha Kinder -- Did somebody say Communism in the classroom? or, the value of analyzing totality in recent Serbian cinema / Zoran Samardzija -- Laughing into an abyss: cinema and Balkanization / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- Jewish identities and generational perspectives / Catherine Portuges -- Aftereffects of 1989: Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Romanian cinema / Alice Bardan -- Cinema beyond borders: Slovenian cinema in a world context / Meta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande -- Historical and spatial redefinitions. …”
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The Kashubs past and present /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński and Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- A history of the Kashubs until the end of communism / Józef Borzyszkowski -- The Kashubian language and its dialects : the range of use / Jerzy Treder -- Kashubian literature : the phenomenon, its history and its social dimension / Jerzy Treder and Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński -- Language policy and the sociolinguistics of Kashubian / Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- Dilemmas of modern Kashubian identity and culture / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński.…”
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Balkan smoke tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria / by Neuburger, Mary, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Coffee house babble : smoking and sociability in the long nineteenth century -- No smoke without fire : tobacco and transformation, 1878-1914 -- From the Orient Express to the Sofia café : smoke and propriety in the interwar years -- Asenovgrad fortress : the biography of a tobacco cooperative between the world wars -- From leaf to ash : Bulgarians, Jews, Germans and the Second World War -- Smoke-filled rooms : places to light up in communist Bulgaria -- Smokes for big brother : Bulgartabak and tobacco under communism.…”
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Integral community political economy to social commons / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : phoenix rising from the ashes -- Uri Munhu here -- Welcome to the world -- Integral community : political economy to social commons -- Conclusion : structure building and structure changing -- Original grounding : being out of communally based self-sufficiency -- Uri Munhu here -- African trading -- Emerging foundation : becoming a culture based developmental economy -- Renewing communism -- Moral markets -- Social commons -- Mutual society -- Navigate emancipation : knowing knowledge based social innovation -- Technology-innovation-people-systems -- Integral innovation -- The wealth of networks -- Economic democracy -- Epilogue: towards releasing the genius of Zimbabwe.…”
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Detroit's Cold War the origins of postwar conservatism / by Doody, Colleen

Table of Contents: “…New Deal Detroit, Communism, and Anticommunism -- Labor and the Birth of the Postwar Red Scare, 1945-1950 -- Race and Anticommunism, 1945-1952 -- Anticommunism and Catholicism in Cold-War Detroit -- Business, Anticomunism, and the Welfare State, 1945-1958.…”
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Ultimate freedom-- no choice the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940 / by Hanovs, Deniss

Table of Contents: “…The leader, the enemy, war and celebration : authoritarianism practices compared : Stalin and Ulmanis in Latvia's authoritarian culture -- USSR--the land of workers and violence : a dual perception -- Cultural practices of European dictatorships in the 30s -- Stalin and Ulmanis : a functional comparison of leaders -- The enemy : communism and the war of civilizations -- Moscow trials--the globalized political show of the 30s -- Chapter six. …”
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The forgotten people political banishment under apartheid / by Badat, Saleem

Table of Contents: “…Banishment: an old and common practice -- Banishment and rural resistance in the early 1950s: Gamatlala and Witzieshoek -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s: Bahurutshe and Sekhukhuneland -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal -- Urban political opposition and banishment -- Banishments under the Suppression of Communism Act -- Life in banishment -- Responses to banishment.…”
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We are Iraqis aesthetics and politics in a time of war /

Table of Contents: “…Jawad -- My own private Munich / Dahlia Petrus -- Hassan Abdulrazzak: a selection / Hassan Abdulrazzak -- Reframing Sunni and Shii discussions / Yara Badday -- Invisible mirror: aggression and the thumb-generation response / Wafaa Bilal -- Iraq: a long phantasmagorical dream for those who are not part of the new capitalism or retired communism / Ali Bader -- Migratory sacred spaces: (re)creating ʻAshūrāʼ -- Dena Al-Adeeb -- Liberal mass media (mis)communication and Iraqi (dis)connections / Celia Shallal -- Sophisticated ways: destruction of an ancient city / Nadje Al-Ali -- My trips to the unknown / Maki Al Nazzal -- A tale of two exiles / Sama Alshaibi -- 1001 nights / Jananne Al-Ani -- Arab-Jews, diasporas, and multicultural feminism: a conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat / Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany -- A film-training project for young Iraqis / Maysoon Pachachi -- Lyrical resistance: the example of Saadi Youssef / Ferial J. …”
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Misalliance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the fate of South Vietnam / by Miller, Edward Garvey

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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.…”
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Vietnamese colonial republican : the political vision of Vũ Trọng Phụng / by Zinoman, Peter, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Sources of Vũ Trọng Phụng's colonial republicanism -- Capitalism and social reform -- The question of communism -- The crisis of Vietnamese sexuality -- Banning Vũ Trọng Phụng.…”
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Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy era / by Goodall, Alex (Alexis Vere)

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Buying into English : language and investment in the new capitalist world / by Prendergast, Catherine, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the first language of capitalism -- Lingua non grata : English during communism -- Other worlds in other words -- "We live and learn" -- Real life in English -- The golden cage.…”
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The walls behind the curtain : East European prison literature, 1945-1990 / by Segel, Harold B., 1930-

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Politics and the papacy in the modern world by Coppa, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary papacy, shuttle diplomacy, and the collapse of communism, 1978-2003 -- 11. Quo vadis Benedict XVI? …”
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The Russian revolution, 1917-1945 by D'Agostino, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Land and people -- The intelligentsia and the West -- Russia the modernizing old regime -- Russia goes to war -- 1917 -- Civil war and war communism, 1918-1921 -- From Lenin to Stalin, 1921-1928 -- The Soviets in world affairs -- Agricultural collectivization and five-year plan, 1929-1933 -- The Great Purge and the path to World War Two -- The fate of the revolution -- The Hitler-Stalin pact, 1939-1941 -- World War Two : Russia versus Germany -- A debate: Was Stalin necessary?.…”
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European socialism a concise history with documents / by Smaldone, William

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- A note on the text -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: socialism and the legacy of the French revolution -- Socialist ideals and imaginings, 1789-1830 -- Socialist ideology amid reform and revolution, 1830-1871 -- Socialism in the era of mass politics, 1871-1914 -- The Russian revolution and the birth of communism, 1914-1945 -- Socialism and communism during the Cold War, 1945-1991 -- Epilogue: the retreat and reemergence of socialism, 1991-present -- Further reading -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

Table of Contents: “…The Secular 'Isms': 4. Fascism; 5. Communism; Part III. An Ostensibly Sacred 'Ism': 6. …”
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