The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe
Katalin Bogyay and Peter I. Barta
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The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science...
Fruits of the Earth
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During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his...
Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization
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The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new...
Limonov
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TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 Limonov is not a fictional...
True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
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"Kati Marton's True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and...
Poetic & Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (18921938): A Struggle Between Art & Politics
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The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist...
Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950
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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby,...
Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
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A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from...
Beckett's Political Imagination
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Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it investigates how Beckett's bilingual...