Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: . From the reign of Paul to Alexander III: Part V: The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I
Title | Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: . From the reign of Paul to Alexander III: Part V: The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Bartlett Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN | 9780815620488 |
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Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: The revolutionary era and the Soviet period
Title | Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: The revolutionary era and the Soviet period PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Bartlett Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Russia |
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Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: From the reign of Paul to Alexander III
Title | Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era: From the reign of Paul to Alexander III PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Bartlett Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Soviet Russia: Strategic Survey
Title | Soviet Russia: Strategic Survey PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Army |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Readings in Russian History
Title | Readings in Russian History PDF eBook |
Author | Warren B. Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
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Everyday Stalinism
Title | Everyday Stalinism PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1999-03-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195050002 |
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
The Last Utopia
Title | The Last Utopia PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674256522 |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.