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The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved British politicians Irish politicians policemen arms smugglers and others committed or opposed to the IRA explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade The Nature of the Long War 1979-1980; Unconventional Conflict The Hunger Strikes January 1980-October 3 1981; The Protracted Struggle September 1981-January 1984; War Politics and the Split January 1984-December 1986; The Troubles as Institution 1987-1990: and The Armed Struggle Transformed 1991-1996 The End Game. In his new introduction Bell reflects on his decades of research the experiences he has had and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland. | The Secret Army The IRA

GBP 145.00
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The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

This book focuses on the Korean People’s Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean English Russian and Chinese language sources as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA this book provides an illuminating insight into the experience of KPA personnel. It presents fascinating and detailed examples of everyday life in the KPA such as the systems of discipline and reprimands the experience of women in the army typical salaries and daily food allowances. The book also succinctly traces the history of the KPA from its foundation under the guidance of the Soviet Union and the experiences of the Korean War through to the current iteration under Kim Jong-un. This pioneering work will be of huge interest to students and scholars of North Korea the Cold War Military Studies and Communism. | The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

GBP 130.00
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Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled on the strength of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents wives and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering both on the march and back in Britain attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides for the first time in one place a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved their children and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters diaries memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This fifth volume covers The Crimean War (1854-56). | Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

GBP 170.00
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Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled on the strength of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents wives and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering both on the march and back in Britain attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides for the first time in one place a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved their children and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters diaries memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This fourth volume covers the period from the Treaty of Paris to the Declaration of War in 1854. | Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

GBP 170.00
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The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

It took only fifteen years for an army once known for its agility and operational brilliance to turn into a clumsy bureaucratic labyrinth according to Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi. Not surprisingly Wald's conclusions greatly embarrassed Israeli political and military leaders as news of the report circulated t | The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

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The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920 when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers the history of Poland and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados. | The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

GBP 120.00
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Political Terrorism A New Guide to Actors Authors Concepts Data Bases Theories and Literature

Political Terrorism A New Guide to Actors Authors Concepts Data Bases Theories and Literature

While there is no easy way to define terrorism it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear demoralization and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO the Provisional Irish Republican Army the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine the Japanese Red Army the Unabomber Aum Shinrikyo Timothy McVeigh the World Trade Center attacks the assault on a school in Russia and suicide bombers have all made the term terrorism an all-too-common part of our vocabulary. This edition of Political Terrorism was originally published in the 1980s well before some of the horrific events noted above. This monumental collection of definitions conceptual frameworks paradigmatic formulations and bibliographic sources is being reissued in paperback now as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism. This is a carefully constructed guide to one of the most urgent issues of the world today. When the first edition was originally published Choice noted This extremely useful reference tool should be part of any serious social science collection. Chronicles of Culture called it a tremendously comprehensive book about a subject that any who have anything to lose-from property to liberty life to limbs-should be forewarned against. | Political Terrorism A New Guide to Actors Authors Concepts Data Bases Theories and Literature

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Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

The infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 in which the Japanese Imperial Army raped and slaughtered countless Chinese citizens on the eve of World War II has been described in well-publicized books from various Chinese Japanese and German perspectives. But this collection of first-hand testimony from the archives of the Yale Divinit; School Library may be the most powerful record of all. Here are eyewitness accounts by a remarkable group of nine men and one woman - dedicated compassionate well-educated articulate and devout missionaries who were ther on the scene refusing to leave and doing everything in their power to save the Chinese victims of this appalling atrocity. | Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

GBP 130.00
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Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Counterinsurgency in Balochistan

Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Counterinsurgency in Balochistan

This book analyses the strategic and economic significance of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with a particular focus on the region of Balochistan. Given the history of multiple insurgencies that the Pakistani Military has confronted in Balochistan the book examines the region’s intricate conflict ecosystem and security landscape which poses potential threats to the CPEC. Structured chronologically the book traces the evolution of the Pakistani Army’s counterinsurgency practices inherited in 1947 from the British Indian Army’s culture of fighting small wars through to the contemporary counterinsurgency (COIN) adaptation in the “war on terror” and afterwards to the fifth round of the Balochistan insurgency. The analysis centres on the development of counterinsurgency theory and practice by the Pakistani Army. It empirically investigates the efficacy of the COIN strategy in Balochistan. The author argues that the approach significantly changed after conceptualising the doctrine especially from 2016 onwards from “butcher and bolt” to the inclusion of critical components like political primacy affect-based and focused use of force “winning hearts and minds” and rules of engagement. As a result there was reduced violence and an increased number of insurgent surrenders. This book concludes that the Pakistani Army has largely controlled the insurgency in Balochistan. However simultaneously there is an urgent need to reduce tangible support to the insurgents through porous borders and implement an effective strategy to sever the nexus between the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISKP) and the Baloch insurgent organisations as well as the sectarian militant organisations in Balochistan province. This is crucial to ending the insurgency and ensuring the security of CPEC. A novel contribution to the study of counterinsurgency and the importance of CPEC to China’s foreign policy and diplomacy as well as its effects on the conflict dynamics in Balochistan the book will be of interest to researchers studying War and Conflict Studies Terrorism Studies International Relations Security and Strategic Studies and South Asian and Chinese Studies. | Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Counterinsurgency in Balochistan

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Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland engaging with international debates on women’s activism leadership advocacy print culture and social movements. Australian Women's Justice provides a nuanced reading of the diversity and differences of the women’s movement in Queensland from the time of first white colonisation federation to World War 1 by new research on key women’s organisations: notably the Women’s Equal Franchise Association and the Women’s Peace Army. Framed through the lives of women suffrage participants including their encounters with First Nations women it also looks beyond microhistory to explore broader themes of the intersection of race gender property war and empire in the colonial context. Campaigns for enfranchisement and property rights and against conscription connect this story with larger international movements for women and labour and organisations such as the League of Nations. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Australian feminism and suffragism as well as historians of feminist labour and peace movements both in Australia and internationally. | Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

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Worship Civil War and Community 1638–1660

Worship Civil War and Community 1638–1660

This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents this work explores the manner in which civil conflict invasion and military occupation affected religious practice. As Churches elsewhere in Britain and Ireland were dismantled and the country was invaded by a foreign English army mid-seventeenth-century Scotland provides an important yet neglected point of entry in exploring the intersection between early modern warfare and religious practice. The book establishes a fresh way of looking at the conflicts of the mid-seventeenth century. No other study has explored how soldiers were quartered or marched in close proximity to parish worship how their presence affected worship patterns and how the very idea of conflict in the mid-seventeenth century impacted upon the day-to-day lives of worshippers. Using the signing of the National Covenant in 1638 as its starting point this perspective emphasises flexibility in religious practice and the dialogue between local communities religious leaders and troops as a critical element in the experience of war. | Worship Civil War and Community 1638–1660

GBP 115.00
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Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

'Gyorgy Scrinis exposes the folly of the reductionist approach and proposes an alternative food quality paradigm based on respecting traditional dietary patterns and reducing technological processing. It may offend nutritionists and will upset the food industry but it could also herald a delicious revolution in our ability to eat well. ' - Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM NutritionistFrom the fear of 'bad nutrients' such as fat and cholesterol to the celebration of supposedly health-enhancing vitamins and omega-3 fats our understanding of food and health has been dominated by a reductive scientific focus on nutrients. It is on this basis that butter and eggs have been vilified yet highly processed foods such as margarine have been promoted as being healthier than whole foods. Gyorgy Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and distorted our appreciation of food quality while promoting nutrition confusion and nutritional anxieties. The food industry exploits these anxieties by nutritionally modifying their food products and marketing them with nutritional and health claims. Through a fascinating investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate the battle between low-fat low-carb low-calorie and low-GI weight-loss diets the limitations of dietary guidelines and the search for the optimal dietary pattern - from Mediterranean and vegetarian to paleo diets - Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific social and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition and explores alternative ways of understanding food quality. | Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

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Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it finds that religion-inspired violence is not restricted to Abrahamic faiths or to one geographic region. The fact that symbolically charged religious violence has destructive consequences is not lost on contributors to Faith War and Violence. Among the subjects tackled are: the ideological and religious foundations that inspired the founders of Al-Qaeda and its role in the Arab Spring; the long history of religious conflict in Ireland known as the Troubles; Sikh extremism; and the evolution of the Christian approach to war. As the contributors demonstrate in Western societies the unity of religious fervor and warmongering stretches from Constantine's incorporation of Christian symbols into Roman army flags to slogans like Gott mit uns (God is with us) which appeared on the belt buckles of German soldiers in World War I. In recent years George W. Bush declared the war on terror a crusade and his speechwriter David Frum coined the religiously inspired term Axis of Evil to describe Iraq and other countries opposing the United States.

GBP 130.00
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Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Pakistan�s nuclear arsenal � the fastest growing in the world � raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the scale of the Cold War South Asia is experiencing a strategic arms race. And the more weapons there are the more potential for theft sabotage and nuclear terrorism. Worries that Pakistan�s nuclear-weapons technology might again be transferred to nuclear aspirants have not been expunged. Being outside the nuclear club makes it harder to ensure nuclear safety. Of gravest concern is the potential for a nuclear war triggered by another large-scale terrorist attack in India with Pakistani state fingerprints as in the 2008 Mumbai atrocity this time followed by an Indian Army reprisal. Lowering the nuclear threshold Pakistan has vowed to deter this with newly introduced battlefield nuclear weapons. Mark Fitzpatrick evaluates each of the potential nuclear dangers giving credit where credit is due. Understanding the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear accidents Pakistani authorities have taken appropriate steps. Pakistan and India give less attention however to engaging each other on the issues that could spark a nuclear clash. The author argues that to reduce the nuclear dangers Pakistan should be offered a formula for nuclear legitimacy tied to its adopting policies associated with global nuclear norms. | Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

GBP 160.00
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Nutritional Management of Digestive Disorders

Nutritional Management of Digestive Disorders

Thanks to new tools of research and the heightened scientific rigor with which they are applied medical science has reached a far more heightened understanding of nutrition’s complex relation with digestive disease. Nutritional Management of Digestive Disorders bring together the contributions of leading experts in nutrition and digestion to provide readers with a concise yet thorough record of the advances made in this area of research. In addition to discussing traditional areas of nutrition it presents essential findings on more recent and novel therapies. Specific Therapeutic Approaches to Specific Digestive Concerns Among the specific topics it describes celiac disease and eosinophilic esophagitis and their management through diet. It considers the role of nutrition in treating acute pancreatitis and liver disease the role of macro- and micronutrients in preventing colon cancer and the role of nutrition and dietary supplements in inflammatory bowel disease. Among emerging topics it considers — Guidelines for the use of probiotics to ease irritable bowel syndrome and antibiotic-associated diarrhea Bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity Short bowel syndrome and small intestinal transplantation Expanding metal stents used to overcome malignant obstructions of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract Nutrition’s role in treating acute pancreatitis and liver disease Chapters in the book are dedicated to modern approaches to nutritional assessment parenteral nutrition and home nutritional support. Putting those recent developments into perspective the book begins with a chapter that recounts the history of nutritional therapy in gastrointestinal disorders. Offering a cutting edge look at the field Nutritional Management of Digestive Disorders provides researchers with critical data needed to conduct further research while also providing clinicians with a look at new approaches to effective treatment.

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October Earthquake Yom Kippur 1973

October Earthquake Yom Kippur 1973

October Earthquake presents a chronological account of the days surrounding the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) War along with the significant military and political events of each day of the conflict. Zeev Schiff's comments on Israel's exaggerated self-confidence the hopelessness of Israeli leadership the intelligence failure the concept of the Bar Lev Line the role of the air force and the preparedness of the Arab army are interspersed throughout. Rather than judging and awarding grades to the parties involved in the war this work bases itself on authentic source materials such as recordings of command discussions during the battles and documents. Many of the details included are not found elsewhere. The author skillfully weaves the recollections and accounts of many participants and commentators into a coherent narrative that brings to life the war's events. Although written largely from the perspective of Israelis October Earthquake reviews political diplomatic and military events in Egypt that set the stage for the war. In the postscript Schiff also explores key lessons for Israel from the Yom Kippur War which ended its sense of invincibility and complacency despite Israel's impressive victories on the battlefield. Winner of the Sokolov Prize Israel's highest journalism award this book should be read by all foreign policy specialists historians and anyone interested in the Middle East. | October Earthquake Yom Kippur 1973

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The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

Drawing on their daily involvement with defense issues and their interactions with the military and political elements of the national security community civilian and military defense analysts in the U. S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute offer a lucid analysis of the complex mosaic of strategic and European defense issues. Their contributions are probing balanced and provocative designed for students of foreign and defense affairs as well as for policymakers. In the first section of the book the offensive and defensive aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union are examined. Going beyond sterile static weapons counts the authors address the relationship between the overall disposition of military forces and deterrence and are attentive to possible future developments including the impact of new technologies and changing Sino-Soviet relations that are likely to affect the U. S. USSR relationship. The second section of the book focuses on crucial East-West defense issues within Europe: the balance of conventional and theater nuclear forces prospects for European arms control the impact of chemical weapons on deterrence and defense and the fashioning of an effective nonnuclear NATO defense. The book concludes with a chapter that illuminates U. S. West European historical and cultural divergences explaining in a new way the political strains that frequently plague the alliance. | The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised

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Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing

Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing

A step-by-step text on the basic tests performed in soil mechanics Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing provides procedural aids and elucidates industry standards. It also covers how to properly present data and document results. Containing numerical examples and figures the information presented is based on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards and US Army Corps of Engineers engineering manuals. The authors discuss the different methods of in situ field methods and ex situ laboratory methods of soil description and identification. They present equations for the physical properties of soil and laboratory methods of soil classification. They also discuss tests for the interaction of soil and water and hydraulic conductivity and consolidation. These tests produce information useful in the identification and characterization of soil samples and their engineering behaviors. A comprehensive resource the book describes the evaluation of physical properties of soils including mass weight unit weight and mass density of the soil mass and its component phases. These properties are then expanded to define a number of weight and volumetric relationships. The book also discusses tests used in the evaluation of the density-water content relationships in soils and in the evaluation of the quality of compaction operations. These features and more make this book an excellent guide for testing soils.

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From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

This book focuses on a long- neglected yet important topic in China’s translation history: interpreter/ translator training and wartime translation studies. It examines the military interpreter training programmes after the outbreak of the Pacific War (1941–1945) further revealing the indispensable role of translation and interpreting in war. The author explores the relationship between linguistic education and war context in the China- Burma- India Theatre where international cooperation was salient. Some 4 000 interpreting officers played a vital role in assisting in air defence transportation training of the Chinese army and coordinating expeditionary operations. The book seeks to bring these interpreters to life telling the stories of why they joined the war how they were trained and what they did in the war. Through the study of training programmes historical archives accounts and trainees’ memoirs discussions revolve around key strands of education including curriculums textbooks and training methods. Utilising foreign language education practices as its main case study the book analyses these through the framework of linguistic and translation theories. The book contributes to Chinese interpreting history by exploring its first-ever nationwide professional interpreting (and translation) training practices and will inspire scholars of translation/ interpreting training world modern history and foreign language education in general. | From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

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Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism but tries to re- and deconstruct the origins of this myth. With intensive use of historical documents memoirs and the related historiography the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute. Kende goes beyond the contemporary perceptions of the “Jewish question” and antisemitism and with close reading of original documents reconstructs the real frontlines of the Soviet society of the 1940s which were not constructed along identity-political lines. The book reinvests the long-forgotten understanding of social classes in an allegedly classless and monolithic society. The spontaneous formations of the actual frontlines in the hinterland or on the actual fronts (battlefields in the Red Army) lacked the participants’ class consciousness thus its occurrences in the form of conflict producing historical records were recorded as acts of antisemitism. As the book advocates Jews could have been found on both sides of the inner frontlines of Soviet society during and right after WWII. An insightful read for scholars of Soviet history that presents a bold and challenging interpretation of the regime and its flaws—both perceived and real. | Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

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Weimar A Cultural History

Weimar A Cultural History

The term Weimar culture while generally accepted is in some respects unsatisfactory if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates the avant-gardism commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar Republic by a decade. It would no doubt be easier for the historian if the cultural history of Weimar were identical with the plays and theories of Bertolt Brecht; the creations of the Bauhaus and the articles published by the Weltbühne. But there were a great many other individuals and groups at work and Laqueur gives a full and vivid accounting of their ideas and activities. The realities of Weimar culture comprise the political right as well as the left the universities as well as the literary intelligentsia. It would not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions against Weimar that would culminate with the rise of Hitler and the fall of the republic in 1933. This authoritative work is of immense importance to anyone interested in the history of Germany in this critical period of the country's life. | Weimar A Cultural History

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Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich Nazism its roots and its essential nature remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century. During the period of Hitler's ascendancy most attempts at explaining this unprecedented phenomenon were framed in economic often Marxist sociological terms and concepts. Peter Viereck's Metapolitics initially published in 1941 broke with this convention by indicting Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry music and social thought. Newly expanded Metapolitics remains a key work in the cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism and in the psychological interpretation of Hitler as a Wagnerite and failed artist. The term metapolitics a coinage from Richard Wagner's nationalist circle signifies an ideology resulting from five distinct strands: romanticism (embodied chiefly in the Wagnerian ethos) the pseudo-science of race Fuehrer worship vague economic socialism and the alleged supernatural and unconscious force of the Volk collectivity. Together those elements engendered an emphasis on irrationalism and hysteria and belief in a special German mission to direct the course of the world's history. Viereck analyzes nineteenth-century German thought's conflicting attitudes toward political procedures and social arrangements rooted in classical rational legalistic and Christian traditions. This edition includes an appreciation by Thomas Mann and an exchange with Jacques Barzun debating Viereck's criticism of German romanticism. Viereck's essays on the case of Albert Speer on Claus von Stauffenberg (the German officer who led the army conspiracy to assassinate Hitler) and on the poets Stefan George and Georg Heym appear here for the first time in book form. | Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

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Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

One dusty summer day in 1935 a young writer named Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov was released from the Siberian labor camp where he had spent the last eight years of his life. His total assets amounted to 25 rubles a loaf of bread five dried herrings and the papers identifying him as a convicted ?enemy of the people. ? From this hard-pressed beginning Andreev-Khomiakov would eventually work his way into a series of jobs that would allow him to travel and see more of ordinary life and work in the Soviet Union of the 1930s than most of his fellow Soviet citizens would ever have dreamed possible. Capitalizing on this rare opportunity Bitter Waters is Andreev-Khomiakov's eyewitness account of those tumultuous years a time when titanic forces were shaping the course of Russian history. Later to become a successful writer and editor in the Russiangr ommunity in the 1950s and 1960s Andreev-Khomiakov brilliantly uses this memoir to explore many aspects of Stalinist society. Forced collectivization Five Year Plans purges and the questionable achievements of ?shock worker brigades? are only part of this story. Andreev-Khomiakov exposes the Soviet economy as little more than a web of corruption a system that largely functioned through bribery barter and brute force?and that fell into temporary chaos when the German army suddenly invaded in 1941. Bitter Waters may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society during the tumultuous 1930s. From remote provincial centers and rural areas to the best and worst of Moscow and Leningrad Andreev-Khomiakov's series of deftly drawn sketches of people places and events provide a unique window on the hard daily lives of the people who built Stalin's Soviet Union. | Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

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