Politiskt förtryck & politisk förföljelse

Flykten från läger 14 är den omskakande skildringen inifrån ett nordkoreanskt arbetsläger av en ung människa som lyckades rymma därifrån. Shin Dong-huyk föddes i arbetslägret 1982 och kände inte till något annat än den värld som fanns innanför det...

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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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»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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Den 29 mars 1963 blev det stort medieuppbåd i Sverige efter besked om att en svensk student fängslats i Östberlin, anklagad för människosmuggling. Studenten ifråga var Leif Persson, som med stort engagemang och flit samlat in svenska pass och bidr...

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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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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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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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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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Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy?

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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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Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than 700 Europ...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists.I...

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Credible Threat delves into the torrent of online abuse directed at women who speak publicly about political and social issues. Sarah Sobieraj shows that identity-based abuse online is a form of patterned resistance to women's voices and visibilit...

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Modern black citizen journalists, armed with little more than smartphones and a speedy WIFI connection, are challenging longstanding narratives of race, power, and privilege in the United States. This book investigates how anti-police brutality ac...

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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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Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state's territory. Mobilising across borders, diasporas emerge to challenge such governments. This book offers an in-d...

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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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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 Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of vi...

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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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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 fr...

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Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users for...

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The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made global headlines in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, amidst serious allegations of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The impac...

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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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Ensaf Haidar berättar om sitt äktenskap med den saudiske aktivisten och bloggaren Raif Badawi, om en kärlekssaga som överlevt mot alla odds och om den världsomspännande kampen för att befria honom från fångenskap. De två gifter sig 2002, efter att...

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'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential...

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South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a general history of the new country, from the arrival of Turco-...

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An inside account of the trials and punishments of the Soviet secret police officers who carried out the Great Terror, this book uses the criminal files from Ukraine to take readers inside the operations of the interrogation rooms and execution ch...

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Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and acti...

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