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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor jonathan daly”
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  • Crime and Punishment in Russia

    A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    Crime and Punishment in Russia surveys the evolution of criminal justice in Russia during a span of more than 300 years, from the early modern era to the present day. Maps, organizational charts, a list of important dates, and a glossary help the reader to navigate key institutional, legal, political, and cultural developments in this evolution.The book approaches Russia both on its own terms and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Western Power

    A Comparative History of Western Civilization

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    In this second edition of The Rise of Western Power, Jonathan Daly retains the broad sweep of his introduction to the history of Western civilization as well as introducing new material into every chapter, enhancing the book's global coverage and engaging with the latest historical debates.The West's history is one of extraordinary success: no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • How Europe Made the Modern World

    Creating the Great Divergence

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, spacious gardens, and sophisticated urban amenities; meanwhile, Paris, Rome, and London were cramped and unhygienic collections of villages, and Europe was a backwater. How, then, did it rise to world preeminence over the next several centuries? This is ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Results and Prospects

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from ... Read more

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  • Russian Aces of World War 1

    by Victor Kulikov ...
    Series Book 111 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Featuring previously unpublished photographs, the story of the Russian air arm, which exclusively flew French- and British-designed fighters such as the Morane-Saulnier Type G, Nieuport Scouts and Sopwith ½ Strutters.Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Fall of the Double Eagle

    The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary

    by John R. Schindler ...
    Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914—and the unprecedented carnage that resulted—effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war.In Fall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • A World Transformed

    by George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft ...
    It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those tumultuous years.Here are behind-the-scenes accounts of critical meetings in the White House and of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • How Russia Really Works

    The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business

    by Alena V. Ledeneva ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Russian Anarchists

    by Paul Avrich ...
    Paul Avrich’s The Russian Anarchists records the history and ideas of Russian anarchism from the 19th century through to its brutal suppression by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s. All the major personalities are discussed in detail: Bakunin, Kropotkin, Baron, Rogdaev, Chernyi, Makhno, Volin, Shapiro, Maksimov. The well-documented study includes comprehensive end notes, a chronology and an annotated ... Read more

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  • Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile

    by Daniel Ford ...
    The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened! For Poland, the War began in September 1939 when Germany invaded from the west, and Russia from the east. Among their victims was a five-year-old named Basia Deszberg, whose father and brother were shot in the Katyn Forest massacres. Meanwhile she, her sister, and their mother were loaded into a cattle car for a horrific three-week ... Read more

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  • Stalin

    The Man of Steel

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Stalin in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Joseph Stalin. Following the death of Lenin, who had overthrown the tsarist regime with the Russian Revolution, Stalin carefully eliminated his opponents and rose to power, immediately establishing a full dictatorship. ... Read more

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