The Socialist Tragedy. [With a Portrait.].
Title | The Socialist Tragedy. [With a Portrait.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Ivor Thomas (M.P.) |
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Pages | |
Release | 1949 |
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The Tragedy of Liberation
Title | The Tragedy of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Dikötter |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1408837595 |
The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
Title | William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism PDF eBook |
Author | James R. Barrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Traces the political journey of a worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States.
Tragic Spirits
Title | Tragic Spirits PDF eBook |
Author | Manduhai Buyandelger |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226086550 |
The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it—the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. Attributing their current misfortunes to returning ancestral spirits who are vengeful over being abandoned under socialism, the Buryats are now at once trying to appease their ancestors and recover the history of their people through shamanic practice. Thoroughly documenting this process, Buyandelger situates it as part of a global phenomenon, comparing the rise of shamanism in liberalized Mongolia to its similar rise in Africa and Indonesia. In doing so, she offers a sophisticated analysis of the way economics, politics, gender, and other factors influence the spirit world and the crucial workings of cultural memory.
An American Tragedy Illustrated
Title | An American Tragedy Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Dreiser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 828 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
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'An American Tragedy' is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, 'An American Tragedy' stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.
Current Opinion
Title | Current Opinion PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 738 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Literature |
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A Tragic Idyl
Title | A Tragic Idyl PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bourget |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2023-09-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368933213 |
Reproduction of the original.