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Velvet Revolution 30 Years After
ISBN: PB: 9788024644486, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
144 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 83 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...
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£24,00
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Venizelos The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914
ISBN: HB: 9781787381421, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that isl...
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£30,00
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto Writing Our History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236729, Yale University Press, June 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...
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£22,00
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Vory Russia's Super Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...
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£10,99
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£20,00
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Vyborg 1944 The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front
ISBN: HB: 9781912390274, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
176 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, colour maps
The war between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-44 is much less known in the West and in Russia than the Winter War 1939-40. For Finland the Continuation War is one of cornerstones of national identity. The Vyborg offensive, the battle that ende...
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£29,00
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Value of Labor The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956
ISBN: PB: 9780226314600, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 tables
At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Mar...
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£32,00
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Violent Sensations Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914
ISBN: PB: 9780226196787, ISBN: HB: 9780226196640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and...
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£20,00
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£60,00
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Vital Minimum Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France
ISBN: HB: 9780226251561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 tables
What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to di...
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£36,00
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Voice of the People Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932
ISBN: HB: 9780300112337, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to n...
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£65,00
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Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781849041997, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's...
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£45,00
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