Politiskt förtryck & politisk förföljelse

Den 9 oktober 1989 var en vändpunkt i den tyska historien. 70 000 människor demonstrerade för frihet i östtyska Leipzig trots att det, som på Himmelska fridens torg i Beijing, kunde resultera i ett blodbad. De tillsynes välanpassade DDR-medborgarn...

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III A vast canv...

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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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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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Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of ...

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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. In Who Killed My Father, Edouard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relat...

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1925 reste Lauri Tuomainen, författarens morfar, full av förhoppningar till Sovjetunionen och antogs vid officersskolan i Leningrad. Men han vantrivdes och återvände besviken hem. Efter en lång rättsprocess fängslades han 1928 i ett och ett halvt ...

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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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Mass atrocities were once a common occurrence in East Asia. Yet, over the past three decades, mass atrocities have declined in East Asia to the point of near elimination. This book explains how and why.

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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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I Krigets ramar undersöker Judith Butler hur olika sätt att se på mänskligt liv har varit avgörande för att legitimera och rationalisera krigföring och statligt våld. Genom att framställa vissa mänskliga liv som mindre än mänskliga, som omöjliga a...

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON'Solzhenitsyn s masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne ApplebaumTHE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III A vast canvas of ...

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This Handbook sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical explorations of citizenship, analysing the main challenges and prospects informing today's world of increased migration and globalization. It will also explore new forms of membership a...

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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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Here are the riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose accomplishments won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize -and the elected leadership of his country. Mandela's story is one of the mos...

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»Lika upplysande som brutalt nedslående Olsson berättar effektivt och kunskapsrikt den groteska historien om hur två svenska medborgare, Peter Dahlin och Gui Minhai, bokstavligen rövas bort av den kinesiska diktaturen De kidnappade Kinasvenskarna ...

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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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Twenty-five years after the People's Liberation Army crushed unarmed protestors in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim offers a new account of the event's enormous impact, and the way the Chinese state has written it out...

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Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927...

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During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but t...

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16-åriga Ahed Tamimi blev förstasidesnyheter världen över när hon arresterades av de israeliska ockupationsmyndigheterna strax före jul 2017. De israeliska soldaterna trängde in i familjen Tamimis hem mitt i natten och förde bort Nariman och Basse...

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The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the world's richest and most powerful men, while Yukos had been tran...

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Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever wr...

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Highlighting Ken Saro-Wiwa's ideology, his cause, his ultimate sacrifice and the injustice of his death, this book focuses on the Ogoni struggle against the multinational Shell and the Nigerian military dictatorship. It gives an insight into the r...

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'Traitors will kick the bucket, trust me. These people betrayed their friends and brothers in arms. Whatever they got in exchange for it, those thirty pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them.' Vladimir Putin 4 March 2018, Salisbu...

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The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the ...

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'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher Hitchens A magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea. Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the 'hermit kingdom' and te...

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award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post , when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing...

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Strax före midnatt den 19 april 2009 krossas tre fönster i ett hus i Vítkov, en liten ort i östra Tjeckien. Molotovbomberna övertänder huset på ett par sekunder. Fyra månader senare vaknar treåriga Natálie Kudriková ur sin konstgjorda sömn. Hon ha...

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This memoir of a political dissident tells the story of a man whose fierce spirit and drive for freedom triumphed over prisonment, solitary confinement, the Soviet Union and Communism itself. Sharansky details his arrest on political grounds, his ...

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