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Peter The Great: A Biography

Peter The Great: A Biography

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOne of history's most formidable rulers, Peter the Great transformed a medieval Russian tsardom into a mighty empire through sheer force of will, vision, and...
Out Of Step: An Unquiet Life In The 20Th Century

Out Of Step: An Unquiet Life In The 20Th Century

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew intellectual lives of the twentieth century were as turbulent, courageous, or consequential as that of Sidney Hook — philosopher, pragmatist, and...
K.F. Ryleev: A Political Biography Of The Decembrist Poet

K.F. Ryleev: A Political Biography Of The Decembrist Poet

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Tsarist repression and revolutionary idealism stands Kondratiy Fyodorovich Ryleev — poet, conspirator, and martyr — whose short life burned...
Sisters Or Citizens?: Women And Socialism In France Since 1876

Sisters Or Citizens?: Women And Socialism In France Since 1876

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of feminism and Marxism, Sisters or Citizens? presents a groundbreaking examination of the fraught and often contradictory relationship between the French...
Z

Z

$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine. A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis...
The Dragon And The Bear: Inside China And Russia Today

The Dragon And The Bear: Inside China And Russia Today

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, two communist giants stood at the centre of the world's most consequential geopolitical rivalry — and Philip Short...
The Russian Revolution Of February 1917

The Russian Revolution Of February 1917

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the bitter winter of early 1917, the Romanov dynasty — three centuries old and seemingly immovable — collapsed in a matter...
Visions Of History

Visions Of History

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters,...
Politics, Society, And Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia

Politics, Society, And Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia

$30.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of one of the twentieth century's most dramatic political transformations, Politics, Society, and...
The Other Half: Further Letters Of Denis Thatcher

The Other Half: Further Letters Of Denis Thatcher

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...
Politicians, Socialism And Historians

Politicians, Socialism And Historians

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most provocative and celebrated historians comes a collection of essays that crackles with wit,...
Power And The Soviet Elite: "The Letter Of An Old Bolshevik" And Other Essays

Power And The Soviet Elite: "The Letter Of An Old Bolshevik" And Other Essays

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the inner sanctums of the Bolshevik Revolution to the shadowy corridors of Stalinist terror, Power and the Soviet...
Wilhelm Liebknecht And The Founding Of The German Social Democratic Party

Wilhelm Liebknecht And The Founding Of The German Social Democratic Party

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of nineteenth-century European politics stands Wilhelm Liebknecht — agitator, exile, and tireless architect of Germany's most consequential political movement....
History's Carnival: A Dissident's Autobiography

History's Carnival: A Dissident's Autobiography

$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, one man dared to speak truth to power — and paid a devastating price. History's Carnival is the unflinching...
The Origins Of The French Labor Movement 1830–1914: The Socialism Of Skilled Workers

The Origins Of The French Labor Movement 1830–1914: The Socialism Of Skilled Workers

$40.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodBefore the age of mass industrial unionism, a quieter but no less fierce revolution was taking...
The Necessity For Choice: Prospects Of American Foreign Policy

The Necessity For Choice: Prospects Of American Foreign Policy

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of the Cold War, when the free world stood at a crossroads between accommodation and...
Poems And Ballads

Poems And Ballads

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom behind a microphone stand, a defiant voice rose against the iron grip of East German authoritarianism —...
Battle For The Franklin

Battle For The Franklin

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most defining environmental struggles in Australian history, Battle for the Franklin chronicles the fierce and...
Pax Britannica: The Climax Of An Empire

Pax Britannica: The Climax Of An Empire

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the British Empire stood as the most powerful...
Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe sun was setting on the greatest empire the world had ever known — and Farewell the Trumpets:...
Marcuse

Marcuse

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of conformity and consumerism, Herbert Marcuse stood as one of the twentieth century's most electrifying...
The American Challenge

The American Challenge

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the late 1960s, a single provocative thesis sent shockwaves through the boardrooms of Europe and the corridors...
Politics And The Soviet Union

Politics And The Soviet Union

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union stood as the world's most formidable ideological and...
The Portable Karl Marx

The Portable Karl Marx

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew thinkers have reshaped the modern world as profoundly as Karl Marx, and The Portable Karl Marx, edited...
Soviet Politics Since Khrushchev

Soviet Politics Since Khrushchev

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Kremlin's shifting power, Soviet Politics Since Khrushchev presents a rigorous and...
Wallraff: The Undesirable Journalist

Wallraff: The Undesirable Journalist

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era when press freedom was under siege and corporate power shaped the news, Günter Wallraff became...
Empire

Empire

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew words in the political lexicon carry the weight, ambiguity, and grandeur of Empire — and...
Proudhon Marx Picasso: Three Essays In Marxist Aesthetics

Proudhon Marx Picasso: Three Essays In Marxist Aesthetics

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when Marxist theory is applied as a rigorous analytical lens to the visual arts? Proudhon Marx...
Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980

Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think seriously about society — and can earnestness itself be a radical act?...
Auguste Blanqui And The Art Of Insurrection

Auguste Blanqui And The Art Of Insurrection

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the turbulent landscape of nineteenth-century radical politics burned as defiantly as Louis Auguste Blanqui —...
Revolution: The Theory And Practice Of A European Idea

Revolution: The Theory And Practice Of A European Idea

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the barricades of Paris to the streets of St. Petersburg, the concept of revolution has been the...
The Naked God: The Writer And The Communist Party

The Naked God: The Writer And The Communist Party

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of America's most celebrated novelists sits down to reckon with the most consequential — and...
Vietnam: A History

Vietnam: A History

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the Vietnam War, and Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A...
The Government Of The Northern Territory

The Government Of The Northern Territory

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of federation and frontier, The Government of the Northern Territory presents a rigorous and authoritative account of...
Ussr: Reorganisation And Renewal

Ussr: Reorganisation And Renewal

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of ideology and transformation, USSR: Reorganisation and Renewal presents a compelling insider's account of the...
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: A Political Biography

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: A Political Biography

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in Australian political history have proven as polarising, tenacious, or enigmatic as Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, the Queensland Premier who held power...
Something Out There

Something Out There

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of apartheid's iron grip on South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's Something Out There presents a masterful collection of short stories and a novella...
The Political Diaries Of C.P. Scott 1911-1928

The Political Diaries Of C.P. Scott 1911-1928

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the heart of British political life for nearly half...
Reading From Left To Right: One Man's Political History

Reading From Left To Right: One Man's Political History

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA life spent wrestling with the great ideological currents of the twentieth century finds vivid and unflinching expression in Reading from Left to Right:...
Spies And Other Secrets

Spies And Other Secrets

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadowy world where Cold War politics collide with human tragedy, Spies and Other Secrets by Nicholas Bethell stands...
The Unwanted: European Refugees In The Twentieth Century

The Unwanted: European Refugees In The Twentieth Century

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of twentieth-century Europe lies one of history's most haunting and enduring crises: the mass displacement of millions of men, women, and...
The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals And The Soviet State 1917 To The Present

The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals And The Soviet State 1917 To The Present

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens to the life of the mind when the state decides it owns it?...
The Truth That Killed

The Truth That Killed

$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stories from the Cold War era are as chilling and consequential as that of Georgi Markov — a celebrated...
U.S.S.R.: Her Life And Her People

U.S.S.R.: Her Life And Her People

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Second World War, when the Soviet Union stood as both an enigma...
From Serfdom To Bolshevism: The Memoirs Of Baron N. Wrangel 1847-1920

From Serfdom To Bolshevism: The Memoirs Of Baron N. Wrangel 1847-1920

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodSpanning one of the most tumultuous periods in Russian history, From Serfdom to Bolshevism: The Memoirs of...
Curzon: The End Of An Epoch

Curzon: The End Of An Epoch

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline —...
The Kremlin And The People

The Kremlin And The People

$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of Soviet power, few Western voices carried more weight — or more controversy...
Realism And Nationalism: 1852-1871

Realism And Nationalism: 1852-1871

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent decades between 1852 and 1871, Europe was remade — nations were forged, empires tested, and...