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Book Synopsis The Spectre of War by : Jonathan Haslam
Download or read book The Spectre of War written by Jonathan Haslam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations based on diplomatic failures or military might, Jonathan Haslam explores the neglected thread connecting them all: the fear of Communism prevalent across continents during the interwar period. Marshalling an array of archival sources, including records from the Communist International, Haslam transforms our understanding of the deep-seated origins of World War II, its conflicts, and its legacy. Haslam offers a panoramic view of Europe and northeast Asia during the 1920s and 1930s, connecting fascism’s emergence with the impact of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. World War I had economically destabilized many nations, and the threat of Communist revolt loomed large in the ensuing social unrest. As Moscow supported Communist efforts in France, Spain, China, and beyond, opponents such as the British feared for the stability of their global empire, and viewed fascism as the only force standing between them and the Communist overthrow of the existing order. The appeasement and political misreading of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy that followed held back the spectre of rebellion—only to usher in the later advent of war. Illuminating ideological differences in the decades before World War II, and the continuous role of pre- and postwar Communism, The Spectre of War provides unprecedented context for one of the most momentous calamities of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Specter of Communism by : Melvyn P. Leffler
Download or read book The Specter of Communism written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin. Using not only American documents but also those from newly opened archives in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe, Leffler shows how the ideological animosity that existed from Lenin's seizure of power onward turned into dangerous confrontation. By focusing on American political culture and American anxieties about the Soviet political and economic threat, Leffler suggests new ways of understanding the global struggle staged by the two great powers of the postwar era.
Book Synopsis A Spectre is Haunting Arabia by : Miriam M. Müller
Download or read book A Spectre is Haunting Arabia written by Miriam M. Müller and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common enemy. In Yemen's transition process today, the secessionist movement Al-Hirak has summoned the spirit of South Yemen, the only Marxist state in Arabia. This book meticulously describes how East Germany supported the implantation of this alien ideology in Yemen through its policy of »Socialist state- and nation-building«. In the same breath, the analysis captures the GDR's activities in the Middle East and their vital role in Moscow's Cold War strategy. Last but least, the study provides one of the few compact overviews of East German foreign policy in the English language of today.
Book Synopsis Nova. (Spectre War, Book 1.) by : Margaret Fortune
Download or read book Nova. (Spectre War, Book 1.) written by Margaret Fortune and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lia, a genetically-engineered human bomb, is sent to the New Sol Space Station in order to destroy it, but when her internal clock malfunctions, she must find a way to diffuse the bomb within her and attempt to live a normal, human life.
Book Synopsis The Spectre of Babeuf by : Ian H. Birchall
Download or read book The Spectre of Babeuf written by Ian H. Birchall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-08-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Babeuf as a political thinker, based on an analysis of his extensive writings, and on scholarship unavailable in English, shows him to be a major precursor of the modern revolutionary socialist tradition. The first part traces Babeuf's political evolution in the context of the French Revolution; the second examines his changing reputation among subsequent historians. The final section assesses the originality of his thought, showing him to be neither a Jacobin nor a Utopian.
Book Synopsis The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by : Gaito Gazdanov
Download or read book The Spectre of Alexander Wolf written by Gaito Gazdanov and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov’s fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century "This psychological novel takes stock of death, war, violence and the guilt that undergirds it all." — The New York Times Book Review A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: "Alexander Wolf." A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death
Book Synopsis The Fourth Reich by : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Download or read book The Fourth Reich written by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.
Book Synopsis A Spectre, Haunting by : China Miéville
Download or read book A Spectre, Haunting written by China Miéville and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document. Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for the fire in the hearts of those who dream of a better world. Nor has it stopped haunting the nightmares of those who sit atop the vastly unequal social system it condemns. In this strikingly imaginative introduction, China Miéville provides readers with a guide to understanding the Manifesto and the many specters it has conjured. Through his unique and unorthodox reading, Miéville offers a spirited defense of the enduring relevance of Marx and Engels’ ideas. Presented along with the full text of the Communist Manifesto, Miéville's guide has something to offer first-time readers, revolutionary partisans, and even the most hard-nosed skeptics.
Download or read book Archangel written by Margaret Fortune and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Sorenson is recruited into a elite military task force developing a large-scale weapon that can kill Spectres en masse, but there is a saboteur in the group and Michael must figure out who it is.
Book Synopsis The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature by : David Owen
Download or read book The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature written by David Owen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace belief that history is written by the victorious. However, less recognised but equally common is the idea that the defeated also write history, even if their particular account is rather different. This collection looks at these matters from a novel and distinct perspective. It essentially presents the idea that victors often perceive themselves as defeated, by examining the ways in which the idea of defeat comes to dominate the victors’ own sense of superiority and achievement, thereby undermining the certainties that victory is conventionally thought to create. The contributions here discuss fiction (mostly UK and US) published since the First World War. Through the frameworks of experience, memory and post-memory, they examine this subliminal defeat, basically as seen in conflict itself, in the societies that it affects, and in the individual lives of those who it destroys. The result is an innovative literary account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
Book Synopsis Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After by : Jiřina Šmejkalová
Download or read book Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After written by Jiřina Šmejkalová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, focusing on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book examines the making and breaking of centrally-controlled book production and reception.
Book Synopsis How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World Volume 1 by :
Download or read book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World Volume 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Specter of Communism in Hawaii by : T. Michael Holmes
Download or read book The Specter of Communism in Hawaii written by T. Michael Holmes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCarthy; he also provides a brief account of the events that led to Hawaii's "red scare." The focus then shifts to a single critical year, bounded by Governor Ingram M. Stainback's 1947 declaration of war against communism in Hawaii and the 1948 dismissal of school teachers John and Aiko Reinecke. During this year the two primary targets of the anticommunists were revealed: the ILWU and the Democratic party.
Download or read book Spectre Rising written by C. W. Lemoine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a combat incident in Iraq, Cal "Spectre" Martin was grounded and told he would never fly an F-16 again. Years later, he started a new civilian life with his F-16 pilot fiancee while being haunted by the nightmares of his last deployment. But when she goes missing on a routine training mission off the South Florida coast, Spectre unwillingly finds himself thrust back onto the frontlines of the war on terror - this time, not in the skies over Iraq, but on the streets of Miami. While searching for answers, Spectre uncovers a deadly international conspiracy that shakes his beliefs to the core and threatens national security. The stakes have never been higher as Spectre rises to overcome his inner demons, challenge his friendships, and take to the skies once again in a daring final mission"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis A Specter Haunting Europe by : Paul Hanebrink
Download or read book A Specter Haunting Europe written by Paul Hanebrink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time.” —Samuel Moyn “Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.” —The Nation For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism. “It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is...A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.” —Mark Mazower, Financial Times “From the start, the fantasy held that an alien element—the Jews—aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies...The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
Book Synopsis Spectre of Violence by : Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Download or read book Spectre of Violence written by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illuminating Inquiry Into The Play Of Power And Dominance Behind 1857 On 27 June 1857, Rebels Publicly Slaughtered Over 300 Men, Women And Children Of The Master Race At The Satichaura Ghat In Kanpur. On 15 July, A Group Of Women And Children Who Had Survived Were Killed At The Bibighur. Two Days Later, General Havelock Reclaimed Kanpur And Colonel James Neill Decimated The Rebel Population. This Sequence Of Violence Has Held Sway Over Indian And British Imaginations For Generations, And Historians And Commentators Have Recounted The Massacres With Horror. Locating The Massacres In The Upheaval Which Overtook North India In The Early Nineteenth Century, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, An Eminent 1857 Historian, Analyses The Nature Of The Violence. Mukherjee Argues That The Absence Of Rebel Accounts And Chronicles Inhibits A Telling Of Their Version Of The Story. What Is Available Are The Contemporary Accounts Of British Survivors, Diaries Of British Loyalists And Depositions As Part Of The Official Report Prepared By The British. By Reading These Sources Against Their Grain And By Examining The Manner In Which The Evidence Was Stitched Together, Spectre Of Violence Brings To Light Fresh Directions Of Inquiry Into The Events Of 1857.
Book Synopsis Specter of the Past: Star Wars Legends (The Hand of Thrawn) by : Timothy Zahn
Download or read book Specter of the Past: Star Wars Legends (The Hand of Thrawn) written by Timothy Zahn and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn--the most cunning and ruthless warlord in history--has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threats--one from within and one from without. Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Yet, perhaps most dangerous of all, are those who lurk in the shadows, orchestrating a dark plan that will turn the New Republic and the Empire into their playthings.
