The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
Author: Alex Goldfarb & Marina Litvinenko
The first reports seemed absurd, almost surreal. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a London sushi bar. As Alexander Litvinenko's condition wor ... |
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Author: Siba Shakib
Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was leveled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the women and children to the capital, Kabul, and so began a ... |
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Author: Tim Tzouliadis
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin s R ... |
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U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade
Author: Robert S. Kahn
During the 1980s hundreds of thousands of refugees fled civil wars and death squads in Central America, seeking safe haven in the United States. Instead, thousands found themselves incarcerated in immigration prisonsabu ... |
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Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China
Author: Zheng Yi
This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives ... |
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Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
Author: Julian Kunnie
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, spe ... |
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The U.S.Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Author: Katherine T. McCaffrey
Residents of Vieques, a small island just off the east coast of Puerto Rico, live wedged between an ammunition depot and a live bombing range for the US Navy. Since the 1940s when the navy expropriated over two-thirds of ... |
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The Price of Dissimulation
Author: Vasily Rudich
Vasily Rudich examines the phenomenon of dissidence from both historical and psychological perspectives. He investigates the interaction of the universal components of human motive, thought and act, with those that are ... |
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Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-up
Author: Sheldon H. Harris
Professor Harris's book significantly expands our knowledge of a previously hidden and shameful event of World War Two. Through access to documents unavailable to earlier researchers, he details the activities of Unit 73 ... |
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Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language
Author: Christopher M. Hutton
In this ground-breaking work, Christopher Hutton demonstrates that an important component of European fascist thought was derived from linguistics, not least the notion of an Aryan people with an original language and ho ... |
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Author: Austin Sarat
"Dissent in Dangerous Times" presents essays by six distinguished scholars, who provide their own unique views on the interplay of loyalty, patriotism, and dissent. While dissent has played a central role in our nati ... |
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Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran
Author: Ervand Abrahamian
The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentatio ... |
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Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
Author: David P. Chandler
The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, e ... |
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After the Gulag
Author: Janusz Bardach & Kathleen Gleeson
In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was ... |
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Author: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics, and ordinary citizens around the world? At present, most believe that ... |
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Settling Accounts with Torturers
Author: Lawrence Weschler
During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world--from South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosnia--has been what to do about the still-t ... |
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Author: Charlotte Delbo
In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, as they were preparing to distribute anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, ... |
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Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment
Author: Toyo Suyemoto
Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as Japanese America's poet laureate. But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A first-generation Japanese American, she has ... |
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How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Author: John Dinges
Operation Condor, set up by Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, was a secret alliance among six Southern Cone intelligence agencies that waged an international dirty war against internal enemies. Between 15,000 an ... |
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Practical Advice for Finding Passengers, Getting Them to Safety and Staying One Step Ahead of the Tyrants
Author: Jefferson Mack
Many times in history, individuals dedicated to freedom have risked everything to help those fleeing unjust persecution. In the United States in the 1800s, the term 'Underground Railroad' was coined to describe the netwo ... |
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