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Ryssland : revolution och inbördeskrig 1917-1921

AvAntony Beevor

Pocket, Svenska, 2025

99 kr

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Mellan åren 1917 och 1921 utkämpades en förödande kamp i Ryssland. När Nikolaj II störtades i februari 1917 utbröt ett blodigt inbördeskrig mellan den tsartrogna Vita armén och den bolsjevikiska Röda armén. Ett krig som av många anses som den mest avgörande händelsen i modern historia.

Såväl de tsartrogna som bolsjevikerna erhöll stöd från andra länder och snart eskalerade konflikten till ett världskrig. Stridigheterna kännetecknades av massavrättningar, terroraktioner med epidemier och svält i dess följd. Terror födde terror. Något som drabbade civilbefolkningen hårt.

Utifrån den allra senaste forskningen och omfattande egna arkivstudier ger Antony Beevor en heltäckande bild av den ryska konflikten. Genom hans välkända, fängslande berättarteknik får läsaren följa kriget ur många olika perspektiv: från arbetaren i Petrograd till officeren på slagfältet och den kvinnliga läkaren på ett av de många fältsjukhusen.

Revolutionary Spring

Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

AvChristopher Clark

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

208 kr

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'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed.Christopher Clark's spectacular new book recreates with verve, wit and insight this extraordinary period. Some rulers gave up at once, others fought bitterly, but everywhere new politicians, beliefs and expectations surged forward. The role of women in society, the end of slavery, the right to work, national independence and the emancipation of the Jews all became live issues.Clark conjures up both this ferment of new ideas and then the increasingly ruthless and effective series of counter-attacks launched by regimes who still turned out to have many cards to play. But even in defeat, exiles spread the ideas of 1848 around the world and - for better and sometimes much worse - a new and very different Europe emerged from the wreckage.

Mellan Gud och stat : Iran efter ett långt 1900-tal

AvRouzbeh Parsi

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

282 kr

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Tolvdagarskriget mot Israel under sommaren 2025 utgör bara den senaste kulmen i en lång och omvälvande period av Irans flertusenåriga historia. Landet som under en tid styrdes av en västvänlig monarki har sedan revolutionen 1978–1979 omformats till en islamsk republik som försökt skapa sin egen modernitet.

Detta projekt har misslyckats. Den inslagna vägen är emellertid inte ödesbestämd och många av Irans politiska frågor är ännu öppna och avgörs i våra dagar.

I den här boken ger Rouzbeh Parsi – en av Sveriges främsta Iranexperter – sin mångfacetterade bild av landet och dess historia. I sju tematiska kapitel utreder han hur ekonomiska, religiösa och geopolitiska förhållanden format dagens Iran, liksom hur iraniernas självbild och identitet är en framtidsfråga lika mycket som regimens officiella relationer till omvärlden, landets utveckling av kärnteknologi eller USA:s hårdföra sanktionspolitik.

Reflektioner om franska revolutionen

AvEdmund Burke

Pocket, Svenska, 2022

89 kr

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»När jämvikten på det fartyg han seglar hotas av överlast på ena sidan önskar [han] lägga den ringa vikt som hans förnuft kan bidra med till att bevara dess jämvikt.«

När är samhällsförändringar rättfärdiga? Vad är statens syfte? Hur kan frihet förenas med säkerhet, moral och ordning? Edmund Burke (1729 1797) var en politiker med dagspolitiska angelägenheter för ögonen, men ägnade sig i sitt politiska värv åt frågor om människans och samhällets natur.

Svaren förärade honom en plats bland historiens viktigaste politiska tänkare. Reflektioner om franska revolutionen lade grunden för en politisk filosofi som har bestått till våra dagar. Denna utgåva inkluderar även Tankar och detaljer om knapphet, för första gången utgiven på svenska, i vilken Burke utvecklar sina tankar om ekonomi.

»Ingen annan statsman eller författare under de senaste två århundradena har varit mer förutseende än Edmund Burke.« RUSSELL KIRK

Fall of Heaven

The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

AvAndrew Scott Cooper

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

299 kr

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In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and scholars to reassess the legacy of the Shah—widely denounced as a brutal, corrupt dictator—who championed Western-style reforms and launched Iran onto the world stage as a modern and powerful state.The Fall of Heaven was written with exclusive access to royalists and revolutionaries—most notably the Shah’s widow Empress Farah, other members of the Pahlavi family, and the men who deposed them: Iran’s first elected president Abolhassan Banisadr, along with other religious and political figures active in the revolutionary underground. These testimonials are set alongside first-person remembrances of White House officials, along with American diplomats and civilians in Tehran.Cooper takes readers from the Shah’s lavish palace in Tehran to the dusty streets of Najaf, where Ayatollah Khomeini lived in exile, and from the Imperial Family’s summer retreat on the Caspian Sea to the back alleys of Beirut, where Islamist revolutionaries plotted the regime’s overthrow. Both epic and intimate, The Fall of Heaven re-creates the dramatic final days of a legendary ruling family, the deposition of which started the militant unrest that still affects the Middle East today.

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

AvScott Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

297 kr

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From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia, a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism. “A must-read that is both urgent and unforgettable.” —Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap, Directorate S, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Ghost Wars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterful and gripping account of the Iranian revolution. Anderson gives us a page-turning history lesson that is more relevant than ever."—Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a finalist for the National Book AwardOn New Year’s Eve, 1977, on a state visit to Iran, President Jimmy Carter toasted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, Shadow of God on Earth, praising Iran as “an island of stability “ due to “your leadership and the respect and admiration and love which your people give to you.” Iran had the world’s fifth largest army and was awash in billions of dollars in oil revenues. Construction cranes dotted the skyline of its booming capital, Tehran. The regime’s feared secret police force SAVAK had crushed communist opposition, and the Shah had bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. He seemed invulnerable, and invaluable to the United States as an ally in the Cold War. Fourteen months later the Shah fled Iran into exile, forced from the throne by a volcanic religious revolution led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini. The ensuing hostage crisis forever damaged America’s standing in the world. How could the United States, which had one of the largest CIA stations in the world and thousands of military personnel in Iran, have been so blind?The spellbinding story Scott Anderson weaves is one of a dictator blind to the disdain of his subjects and a superpower blundering into disaster. Scott Anderson tells this astonishing tale with the narrative brio, mordant wit, and keen analysis that made his bestselling Lawrence of Arabia one of the key texts in understanding the modern Middle East. The Iranian Revolution, Anderson convincingly argues, was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, in Europe, and now in the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval – and Iran was the template. King of Kings is a bravura work of history, and a warning.

King of Kings

The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran

AvScott Anderson

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

131 kr

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris... a good place to start for anyone seeking to understand the current crisis' Financial Times'If you want to understand the turmoil in Gaza, Syria and beyond, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is a good place to start' The Times'Excellent' Telegraph'Exceptional' New York TimesA spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia.Before the revolution, the Shah of Iran seemed invincible. The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues. The regime’s secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. On the international stage, Iran had become an invaluable ally to the West during the Cold War.But village streets spoke of a different country – people derided the Shah as an American lackey and blamed him for economic inequality, for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority. When a volcanic religious revolution erupted, led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini, the Shah was forced off the throne and into exile. How did it all go so wrong?Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott Anderson, this gripping behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how the Iranian Revolution was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions, and how its repercussions are still felt around the world today. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, and now in Europe and the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval – and Iran was the template.'Gripping... Anderson does an excellent job of narrating the extraordinary events of the revolution'Spectator'Told with clarity and directness. It is unlikely that a more authoritative account of this torrid period will ever be written'Observer'A sweeping, gripping book, one that makes past times and dead people (often weird, complex and evil) spring to life with its narrative verve and attention to detail... Riveting... Compelling'Wall Street Journal'Timely... a lively tale of palace intrigue'New Yorker'The most compelling account yet of the revolution in Iran... Outstanding'Eugene Rogan, author of The Fall of the Ottomans'Thrilling... the gold standard account of the Shah’s fall... An epic and heart-breaking tragedy'Azadeh Moaveni, author of Guest House for Young Widows‘A masterfully told account… A must-read’ Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars‘Delivers remarkable new insights into one of history’s least understood upheavals’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave'Thrilling and fully authoritative' Azadeh Moaveni, award-winning author of Lipstick Jihad and Guest House for Young Widows'Important and riveting' Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of In My Time of Dying and Tribe

Franska revolutionen

AvDick Harrison

Pocket, Svenska, 2022

99 kr

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»Franska revolutionen är en mycket bra, relevant sammanställning av de tankar och de goda intentioner som tyvärr kom att leda till ett skräckvälde, men som ändå förändrade, och sinom tid även förbättrade, många europeiska statsskick.« BTJ

Den 14 juli 1789 stormar en parisisk folkmassa den gamla fästningen Bastiljen för att komma åt dess vapenförråd. Detta blir startskottet för en lång och invecklad händelsekedja som kommer att skaka om hela det europeiska samhället i grunden franska revolutionen. Under tio år vibrerar Paris och Frankrike av politiska intriger och uppgörelser, terrorbälde och makabra blodsutgjutelser.

Historieprofessorn Dick Harrison lotsar läsaren genom revolutionens olika faser och förklarar på ett både belysande och lättillgängligt sätt hur Frankrikes gamla regim föll samman och vår nutid började.

Bokserien Världens dramatiska historia tar upp fängslande händelser ur världshistorien. Författarna återger med engagemang och stor kunskap de personer och skeenden som varit med och förändrat historien. Med sitt nätta format och sidomfång erbjuder böckerna i serien utmärkt läsning för alla med ett intresse för historia.

Ryssland : revolution och inbördeskrig 1917-1921

AvAntony Beevor

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

321 kr

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»Ett nytt storverk ... Beevor skriver med sin vanliga flykt i pennan och sitt vanliga öga för den konkreta detaljen i det översiktliga.«Dagens Nyheter

»Beevors genomgång imponerar«Ulrika Knutson, Expressen

I sin nya bok lämnar bästsäljande författaren Antony Beevor för första gången ämnet andra världskriget. Utifrån den allra senaste forskningen och omfattande egna arkivstudier ger han en heltäckande bild av den ryska konflikten. Genom Beevors välkända, fängslande berättarteknik får läsaren följa kriget ur många olika perspektiv: från arbetaren i Petrograd till officeren på slagfältet och den kvinnliga läkaren på ett av de många fältsjukhusen.

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»Ytterst aktuell - och viktig ... 640 sidor som är oumbärliga.«Hemvärnet

»Beevors mycket goda förmåga att genom ögonblicksbilder levandegöra dramatiska händelseförlopp visar hur olika grupper av människor påverkades och samtidigt vederläggs ett antal myter. Författaren lyckas klargöra komplicerade sammanhang på ett lättfattligt sätt. Betyg 5 av 5: Briljant.« BTJ

Day After the Revolution

AvSlavoj Zizek,V I Lenin

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

130 kr

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Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated in the face of the world revolution that seemed to be receding. New paths had to be sought, almost from scratch, for the Soviet state to survive and imagine some alternative route to the future. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, Zizek suggests that Lenin's courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat lucidly and frontally.

On the Spirit of Rights

AvDan Edelstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

272 kr

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By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.

Fifth Sun

A New History of the Aztecs

AvCamilla Townsend

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

237 kr

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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars. For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes. The conquest, in this work, is neither an apocalyptic moment, nor an origin story launching Mexicans into existence. The Mexica people had a history of their own long before the Europeans arrived and did not simply capitulate to Spanish culture and colonization. Instead, they realigned their political allegiances, accommodated new obligations, adopted new technologies, and endured. This engaging revisionist history of the Aztecs, told through their own words, explores the experience of a once-powerful people facing the trauma of conquest and finding ways to survive, offering an empathetic interpretation for experts and non-specialists alike.

Rött minne : att minnas och glömma kulturrevolutionen i Kina

AvTania Branigan

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

319 kr

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I Rött minne - Att minnas och glömma Kinas Kulturrevolution lyfter Tania Branigan fram aldrig tidigare hörda berättelser från individer som överlevt Maos decennium av galenskap, och låter dessa spränga genom fyrtio år av tystnad. Resultatet blir ett unikt undersökande av Kulturrevolutionen som berättar om hur den forstätter forma och påverka dagens Kina.

En 13-årig vakt från det röda gardet njuter av det stora äventyret och kämpar med sin inre tvivel. En tystad kompositör som står inför döden bestämmer sig för att försöka fånga kaoset i sitt skapande. En idealistisk student blir 'likmästare'. Mer än femtio år senare går Kulturrevolutionen som ett djupt ärr genom hjärtat av det kinesiska samhället, och genom dess medborgarnas själar.

Stationerad i Peking för The Guardian, insåg journalisten Tania Branigan att detta brutala och turbulenta decennium fortsätter att driva och forma Kina till denna dag. Återkommande förtryck och personliga trauman har lett till en nationell minnesförlust; ärret existerar, för det mesta, i form av en starkt närvarande frånvaro.

Rött minne utforskar berättelserna om dem som drivs av rädsla att konfrontera eran - eller längtar tillbaka. Vad händer med ett samhälle där man inte längre kan lita på dem närmast sig? Vad händer med nuet när det förflutna begravs, utnyttjas eller helt har ritats om?

Och hur lever man med sig själv, när det värsta är över?

Russia

Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

AvAntony Beevor

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

165 kr

'A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.

We are the Heirs of the World's Revolutions

Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987

AvThomas Sankara

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

159 kr

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Che Guevara

AvDick Harrison

Häftad, Svenska, 2021

189 kr

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Född i Argentina, revolutionär på Kuba och avrättad i Bolivia - historien om Che Guevara är berättelsen om en rebell som inte lät sig begränsas av nationsgränser. Driven av kommunistisk övertygelse blev han en entreprenör i uppror med hela världen som arbetsplats.

Che Guevara var Fidel Castros närmaste man i revolutionen på Kuba. Men han nöjde sig inte med det utan fortsatte kampen mot förtryck och fattigdom i andra länder. Efter sin död vid 39 års ålder blev Che Guevara en förebild för många - både som revolutionär frihetskämpe och populärkulturell ikon. Den glorifierade bilden har emellertid en mörk baksida. När han stod inför exekutionspatrullen den 9 oktober 1967 hade han hundratals politiska fångars död på sitt samvete.

Historikern Dick Harrison berättar den spännande historien om Che Guevaras förvandling från att vara en sympatisk och lätt astmatisk läkare, som upprördes av förtrycket i Sydamerikas diktaturer, till att bli en hänsynslös gerillaledare och ideolog.

I bokserien Biografi porträtteras personer som varit med och format vår myllrande historia. I böckerna möter vi historiska megakändisar vars berömdhet färdats genom årtusenden, eller profiler som varit betydelsefulla för sitt land och dess utveckling.

Del 7 - Timbro essä

Den ryska revolutionens långa ekon

AvMartin Kragh

Häftad, Svenska, 2017

34 kr

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Den ryska revolutionens långa ekon ingår i en serie essäer om vänsterns idéarv. Timbro förlags essäserie presenterar nya och gamla svar på eviga frågor om människan, samhället och politiken. Nya svenska originaltexter varvas med översättningar.

Rebel and a Traitor

A Fugitive, the Manhunt and the Birth of the IRA

AvRory Carroll

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

180 kr

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‘[A] rich, stylish and immersive epic’ Irish Independent ‘Deeply researched and fascinating’The Guardian ‘[Rory Carroll is] an exceptionally gifted storyteller’ Max Hastings ‘A gripping read’ The i Paper ‘A thrilling account of one of the most unpredictable, memorable and poignant figures in our history’ Irish Times The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller From the master storyteller behind 2023’s critically acclaimed KILLING THATCHERA Rebel and a Traitor is the story of a rogue imperial consul who sought to forge a new nation in the middle of a war – and the mercurial spy chief who sought to destroy him by any means.The rogue consul was Sir Roger Casement, a decorated diplomat who turned his back on the British empire and instead joined the rising Irish cause at the turn of the 20th century. At the book’s centre is the manhunt for Casement led by intelligence officer Reginald ‘Blinker’ Hall, the legendary British spy chief who pioneered codebreaking, early mass surveillance and media manipulation.As he did for the critically acclaimed Killing Thatcher, master storyteller Rory Carroll has combed diaries, letters, police reports, memoirs, court transcripts, secret service archives and declassified government files in the US, Britain, Ireland and Germany to create a page-turning history, and a story that still echoes through Anglo-Irish relations. A Rebel and a Traitor raises profound questions about honour, courage and the price of patriotism.

China After Mao

The Rise of a Superpower

AvFrank Dikötter

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

152 kr

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'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan*A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*How did the People’s Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle. In a fascinating tale spanning five decades, he examines the country’s economic transformation alongside the regime’s determined suppression of dissent, its increasing hostility towards the West and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship led by Xi Jinping – one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today’s China and what the Chinese Communist Party’s choices mean for the rest of the world’ New Statesman‘A blow-by-blow account of the uneven, reactive and sometimes chaotic course of economic policies . . . An important corrective’ Financial Times‘Dikötter has been mining Chinese primary sources for decades . . . A clear-eyed and detailed account’ Observer

All the Shah's Men

An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

AvStephen Kinzer

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

260 kr

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Story of Russia

'An excellent short study'

AvOrlando Figes

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

168 kr

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A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM‘A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE‘A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'[An] excellent short study’ MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES‘If you really want to understand Putin’s Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes’s superb account’ ANTONY BEEVOR'A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation’s past have been used to shape its autocratic present’ OBSERVER'A valuable, instructive overview' INDEPENDENT -------------------------From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past – and how they can inform its present.No other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia. None has changed its story so often. How the Russians came to tell their story, and to reinvent it as they went along, is a vital aspect of their history, their culture and beliefs. To understand what Russia’s future holds – to grasp what Putin’s regime means for Russia and the world – we need to unravel the ideas and meanings of that history.In The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes brings into sharp relief the vibrant characters that comprise Russia’s rich history, and whose stories remain so important in making sense of the world’s largest nation today – from the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral, to Catherine the Great, riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last days of the Romanovs.Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship, The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work from the great storyteller of Russian history: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.-------------------------PRAISE FOR ORLANDO FIGES‘An outstanding historian and writer, he brings distant history so close that you could feel its heartbeat’KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD'Figes knows more about Russia than any other historian'MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES

Che Guevara

A Revolutionary Life

AvJon Lee Anderson

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

227 kr

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With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson is truly definitive and monumental - not least because its creation solved a twenty-eight-year-old mystery: the whereabouts of Che Guevara's body...'Masterly and absorbing' -- The Sunday Times'Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be' -- The Times Literary Supplement'Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history' ? Guardian'Probably the best biography I have read' -- ***** Reader review'It's hard to imagine that this work can be bettered' -- ***** Reader review'Simply outstanding' -- ***** Reader review'A terrific read and genuinely the type of book you can't put down after you start reading......' -- ***** Reader review***************************************************************A myth in his own lifetime; an international martyr-figure upon his death; a revolutionary fighter; a military strategist; a social philosopher; an economist; a medical doctor; a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro.Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off.Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile crisis and Kennedy's assassination, weaving in a cast of historic personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.With its painstaking research, never-before-seen documentation and compelling narrative, this is really the ultimate biography of a unique man.

Dackefejden : det stora upproret

AvTomas Blom

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

189 kr

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Försommaren 1542 skakas den unga svenska staten i sina grundvalar. Det så kallade Dackeupproret drar fram genom Sydsverige och utmanar på allvar Gustav Vasas kungamakt. Krisen fördjupas när nederlag läggs till nederlag för de kungliga styrkorna. Det ska krävas ett taktiskt misstag på slagfältet vid Virserum, i mars 1543, innan upproret får sin blodiga upplösning.

Dackefejden är en välkänd händelse i svensk historia, men är också omgiven av en mängd myter och mysterier. Varför blev det egentligen uppror? Vem var den gåtfulle gestalten Nils Dacke? Och hur förhåller sig den populära bilden av upproret till den historiska verkligheten? Allt detta, och mer därtill, skildrar författaren Tomas Blom i denna fängslande bok.

Bokserien Sveriges dramatiska historia lyfter fram spännande episoder och fascinerande tidsepoker ur den svenska historien. Här presenteras på ett fängslande sätt de människor och händelser som format det land vi idag lever i.

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»I Dackefejden ger Tomas Blom en utmärkt beskrivning av händelseutvecklingen och de ledande personerna under upproret. Läsaren får också en mycket god bild av Sverige under medeltiden och de stora förändringar som landet genomgick i början av 1500-talet. Författaren skapar läslust genom sin utmärkta förmåga att på ett enkelt sätt dels göra en dramatisk beskrivning av händelseförloppet, dels förklara komplicerade skeenden och mer långtgående processer i dåtidens Sverige. Betyg 5/5.« BTJ

»Spännande historia.« Hemmets vän

Describe the Night

AvRajiv Joseph

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

192 kr

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WINNER - Best American Play, Obie Awards 2018In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. In 1990, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk.Set in Russia over the course of ninety years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.

Leninism or Marxism?

AvRosa Luxemburg

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

75 kr

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Lukasjenkas land : makten, motståndet och hoppet

AvMartin Uggla

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

265 kr

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Belarus. Numera ser man bara den brutala diktatorn Aljaksandr Lukasjenkas ansikte framför sig när man nämner landet. Den järnnäve som fortsatt håller Belarus i ett strypgrepp sitter på en av världens brutalaste diktatorers arm.

Men kanske är just militärmakten, övervakningen, angiverisystemet och Lukasjenkas olika utspel egentligen tecken på svaghet.

Motståndet under flera olika ledare hade pågått i årtionden och sakta men säkert byggt upp modet, fått rädslan att vika en aning och till slut lyckats få ut folk på gatan inför presidentvalet 2020. En central roll spelades som flera gånger tidigare av demokratirörelsens mångårige ledargestalt, den nu fängslade Nobelpristagaren Ales Bjaljatski. 2020, när den etablerade bilden av president Lukasjenka som landsfader krackelerat och det dittills rådande samhällskontraktet revs upp och oppositionsledaren Svjatlana Tsichanouskaja lyckades samla brett stöd, gav belarusierna hopp om förändring, ett hopp som lever även nu när järnnäven är sluten kring landet.

I Lukasjenkas land lyckas Martin Uggla levandegöra hela denna kamp och även beskriva bakgrunden. Det är kunnigt, initierat och personligt. Den breda folkliga revolten kan aldrig göras ogjord. Demokratirörelsen fortsätter oförtrutet sin kamp för frihet.

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Counterrevolution in Egypt

Sisi's New Republic

AvHossam el-Hamalawy

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

292 kr

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The agents of coercion in Egypt - its military, police, and intelligence services - have been locked in a perennial struggle for power since their inception. Each institution has vied for dominance, shaping and reshaping the country's political landscape. Yet, the seismic upheaval of the 2011 revolution forced these factions to put aside their differences and forge an alliance in the face of an existential threat: the revolutionary aspirations of the Egyptian people.Hossam el-Hamalawy - a journalist and leading activist with personal experience at the sharp end of Egyptian repression - delves deep into the inner workings of the security apparatus. Counterrevolution in Egypt is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intelligence agencies. Drawing on meticulous research, it reveals the strategies deployed to suppress the revolutionary wave, from propaganda and surveillance to mass arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings. El-Hamalawy traces the power dynamics within these institutions to show how their uneasy unity was both a response to the revolution and a determinant of its eventual fate.

Working Class Politics In The German Revolution (historical Materialsim, Volume 77)

Richard Muller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement

AvRalf Hoffrogge

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

351 kr

Richard Muller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin's metalworkers, he was main organiser of the 'Revolutionary Stewards', a clandestine network that organised a series of mass strikes between 1916 and 1918. With strong support in the factories, the Revolutionary Stewards were the driving force of the Revolution. By telling Muller's story, this study gives a very different account of the revolutionary birth of the Weimar Republic.

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Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

AvAndy Durgan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

220 kr

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Black Jacobins

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

AvC. L. R. James

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

160 kr

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary YoungeThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth centuryC. L. R. James's pioneering account of the 1791 San Domingo slave revolt and the creation of the republic of Haiti changed the way colonial history was written. By putting the experiences of the slave rebels, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, centre stage, James made them agents of their own story. His work, written as part of the fight to end colonialism in Africa, helped inspire radical liberation movements worldwide, from Black Power to Castro's revolution in the Caribbean.With an Introduction by Christienna Fryar