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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Jaffe, Steven H.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Twelve A Cold War: Activism and Anti-Communism in New York -- Blacklisting the Weavers -- Refusing to Hide: Anti-Civil Defense Protests -- The Sixties in New York: 1960-1973 -- Chapter Thirteen "Gay is Good": The Rise of Gay Power -- Resisting the Vietnam War -- Women's Liberation in New York -- Chapter Fourteen "Basta Ya!"…”
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Dictators, democracy, and American public culture envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / by Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America.…”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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The reconstruction of nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 / by Snyder, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…(1863-1914), 31 --3 The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914-1939), 52 --4 The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939-1945), 73 --5 Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991), 90 -- Part II The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland --6 Early Modern Ukraine (1569-1914), I05 --7 Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914-1939), 133 --8 The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945), 154 --9 The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947), I79 --10 Epilogue: Communism and Cleansed Memories (1947-1981), 202 Part III The Reconstructed Polish Homeland --11 Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945-1989), 217 --12 The Normative Nation-State (1989-1991), 232 --13 European Standards and Polish Interests (1992-1993), 256 --14 Envoi: Returns to Europe, 277 --Abbreviations, 294 --Archives, 295 --Document Collections, 296 --Notes, 299 --Acknowledgments, 350 --Index, 355.…”
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The papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust by Coppa, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…Papal Anti-Judaism in theory and practice over the millenia -- Anti-Judaism in the church : from the French Revolution to the mid-nineteenth century -- Pio Nono and the Jews : from reform to reaction, 1846-1878 -- Anti-Judaism in an age of anti-Semitism, 1878-1922 -- Pius XI and the Jews in an age of dictators, 1922-1939 -- The "silence" of Pius XII and his crusade against communism -- John XXIII, Paul VI, and Vatican II : aggiornamento and the new relationship between Catholics and Jews -- Apology and reconciliation : John Paul II confronts the church's anti-Judaic past and the Holocaust.…”
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Constitutionalism and political reconstruction

Table of Contents: “…Views from the postcolony, 1945-2000 / Julian Go -- The rule of law and politics of reform in post-revolutionary Iran / Keyvan Tabari -- Post-colonial collages : distributions of power and constitutional models, with special reference to South Africa / Heinz Klug -- Constitutional engineering and impact: the case of Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai -- Constitutional reconstruction since the fall of communism -- Parliament and the political class in the constitutional reconstruction of Poland : two constitutions in one / Jacek Kurczewski -- Constitutionalism and the presidency in the Russian Federation / Anders Fogelklou -- Institutional innovations and moral foundations of constitutionalism in East Central Europe : coping with the past human rights violations / Grażyna Skapska -- The constitution in the process of denationalization / Dieter Grimm -- Constitutional courts and the new constitutionalism -- The role of constitutional courts in the transition to democracy, with special reference to Hungary / Laszlo Solyom -- Constitutional negotiations : political contexts of judicial activism in post-Soviet Europe / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Women and the cost of transition to democratic constitutionalism in Spain / Ruth Rubio-Marin -- Dissolution of political parties by the constitutional court in Turkey : judicial delimitation of the political domain / Dicle Kogacioglu -- List of contributors -- Index.…”
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Wicked theory, naked practice A Fred Ho reader / by Ho, Fred Wei-han

Table of Contents: “…. ; Matriarchy : the first and final communism ; Momentum for change ; Flags, falsehoods, and facism : as long as imperialism exists, chickens will come home to roost!…”
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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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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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Slovakia in history

Table of Contents: “…Slovakia under the communist dictatorship 1948-1989 : controversial development in the economic, social, and cultural fields / Miroslav Lond�ak and Elena Lond�akov�a; 22. The fall of communism and independent Slovakia / Michal �Stefansk�y; 23. …”
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Cold war cultures perspectives on Eastern and Western European societies /

Table of Contents: “…Payk -- Cold War television : Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972 / Annette Vowinckel -- Catholic piety in the early Cold War years, or, how the Virgin Mary protected the West from communism / Monique Scheer -- The road to socialism paved with good intentions : automobile culture in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania during detente / Luminita Gatejel -- Advertising, emotions, and "hidden persuaders" : the making of Cold-War consumer culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Stefan Schwarzkopf -- Survivalism in the welfare cocoon : the culture of civil defense in Cold War Sweden / Marie Cronqvist.…”
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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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The Jewish Role in American Life : An Annual Review /

Table of Contents: “…The politicization of Hollywood before World War II: anti-fascism, anti-communism, and anti-semitism / Steven J. Ross -- "Farther away from New York": Jews in the humanities after World War II / Andrew R. …”
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Anti-fascism in European History : From the 1920s to Today /

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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Jaffe, Steven H.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Twelve A Cold War: Activism and Anti-Communism in New York -- Blacklisting the Weavers -- Refusing to Hide: Anti-Civil Defense Protests -- The Sixties in New York: 1960-1973 -- Chapter Thirteen "Gay is Good": The Rise of Gay Power -- Resisting the Vietnam War -- Women's Liberation in New York -- Chapter Fourteen "Basta Ya!"…”
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Comment comprendre l'actualité : Communication et mise en scène / by Stoiciu, Gina

Table of Contents: “…COMMENT COMPRENDRE L'ACTUALITÉ; Table des matieres; Introduction; Partie 1_La mise en ordre symbolique et les registres de la connaissance; Chapitre 1_Le sens commun, la pensee savante et les idees dominantes; Partie 2_L'imaginaire sur la scene de la pensee savante; Chapitre 2_Le 11 septembre 2001; Chapitre 3_Hitler et sa folie meurtriere; Chapitre 4_L'integration; Partie 3_La scene institutionnelle; Chapitre 5_Le colloque; Partie 4_La scene mediatique; Chapitre 6_La chute symbolique du communisme; Chapitre 7_L'information et la communication en periode de crise; Chapitre 8_Kosovo.…”
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Envisioning Sociology : Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction / by Scott, John, 1949-

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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? : Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 / by Josephson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe -- From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment -- Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism -- Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism -- No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise -- The gendered tractor.…”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

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