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Author : Chris Metzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Transformers: Autocracy written by Chris Metzen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Lawrence Schrad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199389470
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.
Author : Daniel Treisman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815732449
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The New Autocracy written by Daniel Treisman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption, fake news, and the "informational autocracy" sustaining Putin in power After fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has emerged as a new threat—at least in the minds of many Westerners. But Western assumptions about Russia, and in particular about political decision-making in Russia, tend to be out of date or just plain wrong. Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin since 2000, Russia is neither a somewhat reduced version of the Soviet Union nor a classic police state. Corruption is prevalent at all levels of government and business, but Russia's leaders pursue broader and more complex goals than one would expect in a typical kleptocracy, such as those in many developing countries. Nor does Russia fit the standard political science model of a "competitive authoritarian" regime; its parliament, political parties, and other political bodies are neither fakes to fool the West nor forums for bargaining among the elites. The result of a two-year collaboration between top Russian experts and Western political scholars, Autocracy explores the complex roles of Russia's presidency, security services, parliament, media and other actors. The authors argue that Putin has created an “informational autocracy,” which relies more on media manipulation than on the comprehensive repression of traditional dictatorships. The fake news, hackers, and trolls that featured in Russia’s foreign policy during the 2016 U.S. presidential election are also favored tools of Putin’s domestic regime—along with internet restrictions, state television, and copious in-house surveys. While these tactics have been successful in the short run, the regime that depends on them already shows signs of age: over-centralization, a narrowing of information flows, and a reliance on informal fixers to bypass the bureaucracy. The regime's challenge will be to continue to block social modernization without undermining the leadership’s own capabilities.
Author : Roberto Orci
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781600100673
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Transformers written by Roberto Orci and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they disguise themselves as electronic equipment while here on Earth, the peaceful Autobots from the planet Cybertron are locked in a battle for an energy source hidden on Earth with the Decepticons, who are determined to assume control of the universe.
Author : James Roberts
Publisher : Transformers (Numbered)
ISBN 13 : 9781613778029
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)
Download or read book More Than Meets the Eye written by James Roberts and published by Transformers (Numbered). This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rodimus leads his crew to the gates of heaven, an ancient plan comes to fruition and larger forces close in.
Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416597824
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Days of God written by James Buchan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-busting insider’s account of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that destroyed US influence in the country and transformed the politics of the Middle East and the world. The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the seminal events of our time. It inaugurated more than thirty years of war in the Middle East and fostered an Islamic radicalism that shapes foreign policy in the United States and Europe to this day. Drawing on his lifetime of engagement with Iran, James Buchan explains the history that gave rise to the Revolution, in which Ayatollah Khomeini and his supporters displaced the Shah with little difficulty. Mystifyingly to outsiders, the people of Iran turned their backs on a successful Westernized government for an amateurish religious regime. Buchan dispels myths about the Iranian Revolution and instead assesses the historical forces to which it responded. He puts the extremism of the Islamic regime in perspective: a truly radical revolution, it can be compared to the French or Russian Revolutions. Using recently declassified diplomatic papers and Persian-language news reports, diaries, memoirs, interviews, and theological tracts, Buchan illuminates both Khomeini and the Shah. His writing is always clear, dispassionate, and informative. The Iranian Revolution was a turning point in modern history, and James Buchan’s Days of God is, as London’s Independent put it, “a compelling, beautifully written history” of that event.
Author : Chris Metzen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743418972
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor written by Chris Metzen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : Milan W. Svolik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702479X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Authoritarian Rule written by Milan W. Svolik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish personal autocracy and stay in power for decades; why elsewhere leadership changes are regular and institutionalized, as in contemporary China; why some dictatorships are ruled by soldiers, as Uganda was under Idi Amin; why many authoritarian regimes, such as PRI-era Mexico, maintain regime-sanctioned political parties; and why a country's authoritarian past casts a long shadow over its prospects for democracy, as the unfolding events of the Arab Spring reveal. Svolik complements these and other historical case studies with the statistical analysis on institutions, leaders and ruling coalitions across dictatorships from 1946 to 2008.
Author : Jason Brownlee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025710
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Democracy Prevention written by Jason Brownlee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy Prevention explains how America's alliance with Egypt has impeded democratic change and reinforced authoritarianism over time.
Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 1594486514
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Man Without a Face written by Masha Gessen and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Eastern Europe, Russia.
Author : Michael J. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415436478
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Hitler written by Michael J. Lynch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new accessible biography addresses the fundamental question surrounding Hitler: Was he was the product of a unique, extraordinary epoch, or was he its creator? In the context of the great mass of ideas and interpretations that have been produced in response to this basic yet demanding question, Michael Lynch provides a balanced guide that will be enlightening for students and general readers alike.
Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 161039044X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Dictator's Handbook written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
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ISBN 13 : 9781480674264
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Transformers written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. J. Robinson
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781849045896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Maldives written by J. J. Robinson and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged for extramarital sex and blackmarket vodka costs $140 a bottle. Until 2008 the Maldives also hosted Asia's longest-serving dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. A former political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed, an environmental activist, journalist, and politician, brought Gayoom's thirty-year autocracy to a sudden end, in the Maldives' first democratic elections. Young, progressive and charismatic, President Nasheed thrust the Maldives into the spotlight as a symbol of the fight against climate change and the struggle for democracy and human rights in one of the world's strictest Islamic societies. But dictatorships are hard to defeat, enduring in a country's institutions and the minds of people conditioned to autocracy over three decades. Democracy brought turmoil, protests, violence and intense political polarization. The ousted dictatorship overthrew Nasheed's government in February 2012, supported by Islamic radicals and mutinying security forces. Amid Byzantine intrigue, the fight for democracy was just beginning.
Author : James Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613775929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 3 written by James Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate Transformers saga begins here! The Transformers embark on an epic quest to the farthest reaches of the Transformers Universe - and beyond!
Author : Victor Zhivov
Publisher : Ars Rossica
ISBN 13 : 9781618118042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book "Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics written by Victor Zhivov and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.
Author : John Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684062928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Transformers written by John Barber and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVOLUTION is over--but the danger to Earth is just beginning. As OPTIMUS PRIME pulls Earth into the larger universe, he's painted a target on Earth ... and a new alien incursion begins when a corkscrew shaped craft drills into our world!
