Political oppression & persecution books

1221 books were found.

Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir

Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir

Author: Dmitry S. Likhachev ,  LOGOS Publishing House
ISBN: 9789639116467
Format: Hardback
$118.67

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The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press

The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as...

Author: Henry Scott Stokes ,  Lily Xiao Hong Lee (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780765606365
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In Kwangju, South Korea, in 1980 a student uprising ended in the brutal suppression and massacre of protestors,...  Read More >>

Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair

Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair

Author: W. Wesley Pue
ISBN: 9780774807791
Format: Hardback
$86.99

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Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System

Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian...

Author: Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova ,  Donald J. Raleigh
ISBN: 9780765604262
Format: Hardback
$305.00

An historical study of the Soviet labour camp movement based on recently declassified archives. The book examines...  Read More >>

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret...

Author: David Chandler
ISBN: 9780520222472
Format: Paperback
$56.90

More than a chronicle of Khmer Rouge barbarism, Voices from S-21 is also a judicious examination of the psychological...  Read More >>

Prison on Wheels: From Ravensbrück to Burgau

Prison on Wheels: From Ravensbrück to Burgau

Author: Eva Langley-Dános
ISBN: 9783856305857
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Gives an eyewitness report of a rail journey from Ravensbruck, north of Berlin, to Burgau, near Munich, one of the...  Read More >>

The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy

The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy...

Author: Jennifer Schirmer
ISBN: 9780812217308
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Successfully combining military, political, and cultural analysis with a serious treatment of legal and human rights...  Read More >>

Taken on Trust

Taken on Trust

Author: Terry Waite
ISBN: 9780340581964
Format: Hardback
$54.95

This autobiography describes the hours before and after Terry Waite was taken hostage. Waite analyzes his thoughts...  Read More >>

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies

Author: Guenter Lewy (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Massachusettes)
ISBN: 9780195125566
Format: Hardback
$93.95

A history of the Nazi treatment of the Gypsy population. Lewy tells the story of the Reich's incremental policy...  Read More >>

Israel: A Divided Promised Land

Israel: A Divided Promised Land

Author: Jonathan Jacob
ISBN: 9781857564662
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Showing how European Jews are treating Easterners, this work in essence shows a nation divided and a paradise lost....  Read More >>

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building...

Author: Judy Bieber
ISBN: 9780803212978
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor...

Author: Paul B. Jaskot
ISBN: 9780415173667
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor...

Author: Paul B. Jaskot
ISBN: 9780415223416
Format: Paperback
$158.00

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Country Of My Skull

Country Of My Skull

Author: Antjie Krog
ISBN: 9780099289791
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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The Heart of the War in Colombia

The Heart of the War in Colombia

Author: Constanza Ardila-Galvez ,  Alice Jay
ISBN: 9781899365425
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The Heart of the War in Colombia is a testimony of those whose lives have been torn asunder by war and displacement...  Read More >>

Pinochet: The Politics of Torture

Pinochet: The Politics of Torture

Author: Hugh O'Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9781899365418
Format: Paperback
$46.45

An analysis of Pinochet's role in building modern Chile. Using interviews, eye-witness accounts and quotes from...  Read More >>

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus

Author: Carlotta Gall ,  Thomas De Waal
ISBN: 9780814731321
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The authors explain the contradictory images of the Chechen people - from gun-smuggling gangsters to savage but...  Read More >>

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of...

Author: Mark E. Neely, Jr.
ISBN: 9780813918945
Format: Hardback
$133.32

Based on the discovery of records of over four thousand prisoners, Mark E. Neely Jrs.'s new book undermines the...  Read More >>

Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag

Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag

Author: Janusz Bardach ,  Kathleen Gleeson
ISBN: 9780520221529
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Where We Buried the Sun

Where We Buried the Sun

Author: Alla Tumonov ,  Gust Olson
ISBN: 9781896300054
Format: Paperback
$60.59

The memoir of a young woman who, in 1951 at the age of seventeen, was arrested for her involvement with an underground...  Read More >>

The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy...

Author: Eve Goldberg ,  Linda Evans
ISBN: 9781889059174
Format: Undefined
$5.28

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Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada's Prison Correspondence, 1964-1989

Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada's...

Author: Robert D. Vassen ,  Nelson Mandela
ISBN: 9780870135279
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Like his fellow African National Congress member Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada was incarcerated for over three...  Read More >>

Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Author: Ellen Schrecker
ISBN: 9780691048703
Format: Paperback
$87.99

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