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Change
ISBN: PB: 9780857421609, Seagull Books, February 2013
117 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm
In "Change", Mo Yan – China's foremost novelist – personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice-versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are...
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£10,00
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Catastrophe in Indonesia
ISBN: HB: 9781906497675, Seagull Books, February 2011
102 pp., 25x15 cm
In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging Indonesia towards socialism, when a mutiny coordinate...
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£11,50
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Bait Four Stories
ISBN: HB: 9781906497491, Seagull Books, July 2010
175 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm
Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first s...
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£13,00
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Back in the USSR
ISBN: HB: 9781906497279, Seagull Books, November 2009
88 pp., 19x11.9 cm
Though it has been nearly two decades since the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the accompanying disintegration of the Soviet state, a strange aspect of the current cultural situation in Russia and in the other former republics of th...
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£11,50
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Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497286, Seagull Books, November 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.2 cm
Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters – a dog, an underdog, and a cat – offer the reader narratives that reflect on...
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£13,00
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Idea of Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497262, Seagull Books, October 2009
96 pp., 18.8x11.4 cm
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failure...
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