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  • The Little Big Number

    How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It

    par Dirk Philipsen ...
    The story of GDP and why we need a better measurement of growthIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP only measures output. It ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • We Were the People

    Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989

    par Dirk Philipsen ...
    On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors in the drama that transformed East Germany speak for themselves, describing what they did, what ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    par David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... En savoir plus

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  • The Soviet Century

    par Moshe Lewin ...
    This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917 to its fall, offering “a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system” (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Russian Revolution

    par Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Communism

    A History

    par Richard Pipes ...
    Collections Livre 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    par Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny ...
    "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism."-Norman Markowitz, author ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Soviet Tragedy

    A History of Socialism in Russia

    par Martin Malia ...
    "The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world."-- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books"In Martin ... En savoir plus

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  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Stephen Lovell ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... En savoir plus

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  • Out of Ashes

    A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

    par Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued ... En savoir plus

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  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

    par Peter Kenez ...
    This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the ... En savoir plus

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  • German History in Modern Times

    Four Lives of the Nation

    par William W. Hagen ...
    This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the ... En savoir plus

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