Political oppression & persecution books

1221 books were found.

Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition

Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's...

Author: Jan T. Gross
ISBN: 9780691096032
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950

Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek...

Author: Polymeris Voglis
ISBN: 9781571813084
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Voglis (New York U.) examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain...  Read More >>

Arguing about Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe

Arguing about Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates...

Author: N. Steiner
ISBN: 9780312230739
Format: Hardback
$112.00

In addressing the asylum controversy in Europe today, much of the literature assumes that asylum policies result...  Read More >>

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

Author: Siba Shakib ,  Shaun Whiteside
ISBN: 9780712623391
Format: Paperback
$35.00

But it is also a story of great courage, the moving story of a proud woman, a woman who did not want to be banished...  Read More >>

Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627

Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and...

Author: John W. Dardess
ISBN: 9780824825164
Format: Paperback
$71.28

John Dardess employs a wide range of little-used primary sources (letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, memorials...  Read More >>

Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity...

Author: Omer Bartov (John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780195151848
Format: Paperback
$113.95

Omar Bartov argues that war, genocide and modern identity have been intimately linked. By comparing German, French...  Read More >>

Attacks on the Press in 2002: a Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists

Attacks on the Press in 2002: a Worldwide Survey by...

Author: Anne Garrels ,  Anne Garrels
ISBN: 9780944823217
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"Published annually by the Committee to Protect Journalists, ""Attacks on the Press"" provides factual and non-sensationalized...  Read More >>

Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World

Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret...

Author: Mack Jefferson
ISBN: 9781581603088
Format: Paperback
$52.80

What is invisible resistance to tyranny? It is an underground movement of secret freedom fighters, each acting individually...  Read More >>

The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People - In Their Own Words

The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision...

Author: Andrew Nathan ,  Perry Link
ISBN: 9780349114699
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The Tiananmen Papers contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo. It reveals the...  Read More >>

Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc

Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline,...

Author: James B. Given
ISBN: 9780801487590
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes from Prison, 1983-1988

Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes from Prison,...

Author: Alija Izetbegovi'c
ISBN: 9780275972875
Format: Hardback
$131.00

As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovi'c was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government...  Read More >>

The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents

The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents...

Author: Ellen Schrecker
ISBN: 9780312393199
Format: Paperback
$46.86

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The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America

The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression...

Author: Bud Schultz ,  Ruth Schultz
ISBN: 9780520224025
Format: Paperback
$60.95

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Political Prisoners in India

Political Prisoners in India

Author: Ujjwal Kumar Singh (Reader, Department of Political Science, Reader, Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh)
ISBN: 9780195653885
Format: Paperback
$28.46

Based on official documents, prison memoirs and interviews, this work argues that 'political prisonerhood' is historically...  Read More >>

The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System

The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System

Author: Nanci Adler
ISBN: 9780765800718
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with...  Read More >>

Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror

Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle...

Author: Eli Sagan
ISBN: 9780742508316
Format: Hardback
$58.95

The French Revolution introduced ideological terror to the world. This book offers a comprehensive explanation of...  Read More >>

Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or ""Evil Cult""?

Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice...

Author: Danny Schechter
ISBN: 9781888451276
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The inside story of the Falun Gong crisis in China. Revised and updated for 2001!!! Danny Schechter's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

Author: Irving Louis Horowitz ,  George G. Wynne
ISBN: 9780765808806
Format: Paperback
$124.17

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Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

Author: Irving Louis Horowitz
ISBN: 9780765800947
Format: Hardback
$271.69

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Refugees in Our Own Land: Chronicles From a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem

Refugees in Our Own Land: Chronicles From a Palestinian...

Author: Muna Hamzeh
ISBN: 9780745316529
Format: Hardback
$43.95

A look into the hearts and minds of Palestinian refugees  Read More >>

Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag

Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag...

Author: Suh Sung ,  Jean Inglis
ISBN: 9780742501225
Format: Paperback
$55.95

This is the memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed...  Read More >>

Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Notes and Letters of Struggle

Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Notes and Letters of Struggle...

Author: Raymond Suttner
ISBN: 9781876175252
Format: Paperback
$28.95

After Raymond Suttner's arrest in 1975, he was subjected to torture, solitary confinement and long periods in jail....  Read More >>

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