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  • From protest to the presidency: Grassroots Mobilisation in Mexico City

    by Hélène Combes ...
    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    How does an occupation movement become a political force capable of taking power?This book explores Mexico’s 2006 mass encampment in Mexico City—an unprecedented 48-day protest sparked by a contested presidential election. From this occupation emerged new mobilisations against privatisation and inequality, reshaping the Mexican left and paving the way for electoral victories in 2018 and 2024. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937

    by Cloe Drieu ...
    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu uses Uzbek films as a lens to explore the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia, starting from the collapse ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919–1937

    by Cloé Drieu ...
    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    This study examines the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia through the lens of Uzbek cinema—from the collapse of the Russian Empire to WWII.Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu argues that the Uzbek films of this period provide a perfect angle for ... Read more

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    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

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  • Creating Russophobia

    From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria

    by Guy Mettan ...
    hy do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How is it that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border? These are ... Read more

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  • Central Asia

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  • The Radicality of Love

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  • The Infernal Library

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  • Nâzim Hikmet

    The Life and Times of Turkey's World Poet

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    In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in Central Asia

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    This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In ... Read more

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