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'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A N

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Efter att ha manövrerat ut samtliga konkurrenter på 1920-talet härskade Josef Stalin enväldigt, med brutalast möjliga metoder, över Sovjetunionen ända till sin död 1953. Epoken präglades av ett närmast obegripligt förtryck, med svältkatastrofer, o...

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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022* 'I want to live in a society where ...

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»Den hittills mest mångfasetterade och verkligt fördjupande bilden av de många årens fångenskap.« Dagens Nyheter »Granskande, nyfiken, berättande journalistik när den är som allra, allra bäst.« Barometern Det är bråttom. Dawit Isaak har suttit fän...

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the...

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In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most c...

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From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the icon...

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Ministeriet för statssäkerhet, allmänt känt som Stasi, var Östtysklands säkerhets- och underrättelsetjänst. År 1980 hade organisation vuxit till den största underrättelseverksamheten i världen, räknat per capita, och omfattade en rad olika funktio...

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'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by mana...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a...

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»I denna reportagebok får vi följa en svensk student som riskerade livet i försöken att lura Stasi och arresterades. På köpet får vi hela historien om flykthjälpen och livet i Berlin; synnerligen insiktsfullt berättad.« Hemvärnet När Berlinmuren b...

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WINNER OF THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2010 A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world's least ordinary country, North Korea North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in ...

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Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. 'What a beautiful book' MAX PORTER In Who Killed My Father, Edouard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tender...

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The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this...

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Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own exp...

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Since the Abu Gharib scandal, African-American intellectual Angela Davis has given interviews discussing resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. In this collection, Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well a...

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A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated po...

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Ministeriet för statssäkerhet, allmänt känt som Stasi, var Östtysklands säkerhets- och underrättelsetjänst. År 1980 hade organisationen vuxit till den största underrättelseverksamheten i världen, räknat per capita, och omfattade en rad olika funkt...

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"Blisteringly witty." Kirkus "An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly "Timely." Booklist When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an aval...

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A devastating personal account of China's oppression of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee

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The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activit...

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With a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore-Gilbert New introductions written by Shannon Woodcock and Nayereh ...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and read by Eji Kim.Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be fre...

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An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer. Not since Dead Man Walking have we seen so provocative a first-person encounter with the human face of evil. Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apar...

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Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. What a beautiful book MAX PORTERIn Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father s life, and the tenderness a...

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This is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and...

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A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated po...

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'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' - The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one ...

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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities. Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minor...

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