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Property And Freedom
E-bok, 2010
144 kr
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One of the most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership, and there is never a quarrel over "mine" and "thine". As Professor Pipes argues in this book, such a dream has never been translated into reality in the secular world, despite the best …
Russia Under the Old Regime
Häftad, 1995
160 kr
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This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of geographical conditions made it extremely difficult to construct …
Vixi
Memoirs of a Non-Belonger
Häftad, 2005
580 kr
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A distinguished historian, Harvard professor, and White House adviser looks back on his own life and on the tumultuous twentieth centurySixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and …
Russian Revolution
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia....Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to struggle out of the darkness." -- Ronald …
Unknown Lenin
From the Secret Archive
Av Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Richard Pipes
Häftad, 1999
483 kr
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Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt that he was a ruthless …
Degaev Affair
Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
Häftad, 2005
386 kr
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A committed terrorist in Russia, an admired professor in America: the astounding story of Sergei Degaev’s double life, told in full detail for the first timeSergei Degaev (1857–1921), a political terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating in the assassination of the chief of …
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics
A Study in Political Culture
Häftad, 2007
450 kr
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Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia?Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia’s immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of autocracy, the most formative and powerful idea in …
Concise History of the Russian Revolution
E-bok, 2011
242 kr
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The author of the classic two-volume study, The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, now distills those works into an authoritative new chronicle of Russia between 1900 and the death of Lenin. "A deep and eloquent condemnation."--The New York Times. From the Trade Paperback …
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin''s death in 1924. From the Trade …
Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
A Translation and Analysis
Häftad, 2005
377 kr
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Russian history was typically studied through liberal or socialist lenses until Richard Pipes first published his translation of Karamzin's Memoir. Almost fifty years later, it is still the only English-language edition of this classic work. Still fresh and readable today, the Memoir-in which …
Three Whys Of Russian Revolution
Häftad, 1998
160 kr
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It is my considered judgement that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and certainly no Cold War, which one dominated our lives. I will attempt here to distill the essence of my …
Alexander Yakovlev
The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
Inbunden, 2015
1695 kr
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A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a …
Alexander Yakovlev
The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
Häftad, 2016
367 kr
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A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a …
Remaking Russia
Voices from within
Av Richard Pipes, Heyward Isham
E-bok, 2016
883 kr
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In the words of George F. Kennan, Russia remains a region where "the conflicts of outlook and persuasion" have been as violent as any seen in our century. As crisis follows crisis, Western observers find the tragic complexities and cruel paradoxes of post-totalitarian Russia no less mystifying than …
Remaking Russia
Voices from within
Av Richard Pipes, Heyward Isham
E-bok, 2016
883 kr
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In the words of George F. Kennan, Russia remains a region where "the conflicts of outlook and persuasion" have been as violent as any seen in our century. As crisis follows crisis, Western observers find the tragic complexities and cruel paradoxes of post-totalitarian Russia no less mystifying than …
Remaking Russia
Voices from within
Av Heyward Isham, Richard Pipes
Inbunden, 1995
2736 kr
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In the words of George F. Kennan, Russia remains a region where "the conflicts of outlook and persuasion" have been as violent as any seen in our century. As crisis follows crisis, Western observers find the tragic complexities and cruel paradoxes of post-totalitarian Russia no less mystifying than …
Remaking Russia
Voices from within
Av Heyward Isham, Richard Pipes
Häftad, 1995
747 kr
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In the words of George F. Kennan, Russia remains a region where "the conflicts of outlook and persuasion" have been as violent as any seen in our century. As crisis follows crisis, Western observers find the tragic complexities and cruel paradoxes of post-totalitarian Russia no less mystifying than …
Communism
A History
E-bok, 2001
147 kr
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From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world''s most fateful idea. With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime''s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as …
Two ways of Russia
E-bok, 2024
19 kr
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Richard Pipes is the patriarch of American political science; for many years he was director of the Research Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. He has written several dozen books and several hundred articles on the history of the USSR and the problems of modern Russian life. In his …
