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As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Pivotal Moments in American History)

In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy’s Country is Richard Archer’s gripping narrative of those … Continue reading

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The Russian Revolution in Ukraine

Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) was a peasant anarcho-communist who organized an experiment in anarchist values and practice in southeast Ukraine during the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War (1917-1921). The Russian Revolution in Ukraine is the first volume … Continue reading

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Egyptian Tales, First Series

INTRODUCTION IT is strange that while literature occupies so much attention as at present, and while fiction is the largest division of our book-work, the oldest literature and fiction of the world should yet have remained unpresented to English readers. … Continue reading

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The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted … Continue reading

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1848: Year of Revolution

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815?but which in many countries had also suppressed … Continue reading

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The Russian Civil War 1918-22 (Essential Histories)

The Russian Civil War was the most important event of its kind in the 20th century. It changed the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaped the political, human and economic geography of Europe, the Far East … Continue reading

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History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies andleaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil … Continue reading

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The Paradoxes of Nationalism (S U N Y Series in National Identities.)

An interdisciplinary study of nationalism drawing on the events of the French Revolution.

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Ten days that Shook the World (Penguin Classics)

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed’s … Continue reading

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Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (New Studies in European History)

After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and … Continue reading

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