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1	The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression more books like this by Stephane Courtois, Karel Bartosek, Andrzej Paczkowski add to wishlist This collection of essays by European scholars attempts to assess the true human toll and the type and degree of crimes against humanity in countries under communist rule in the 20th century: Russia, China, Cuba, Afghanistan, Angola, et al. see all copies from $19.97! new only from $33.06! \| first editions \| SVS
2	In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzheni'tsyn add to wishlist The thrilling cold war masterwork by the nobel prize winner, published in full for the first time Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $14.15! \| SVS
3	Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In essay-articles on Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as in new thoughts on 9/11, Vidal expresses his dissenting views on America and its role around the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis considers 20th-century politics in this meditation on the history of the left in England--a faction that included his father, Kingsley, until he changed his views in the mid-1960s; Martin Amis includes the last letter he wrote to his father, which questions the value of the communist ideal. He also offers some controversial opinions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo more books like this by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard add to wishlist Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine politics forever. The Mothers began in the ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $12.00! \| SVS
6	Hidden Agendas more books like this by John Pilger add to wishlist The model for this volume is the enormously successful vintage original "Distant Voices" (93, 000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam today, the media and UK politics. "Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s ...The Truth in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Dead Man Running: The True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the IRA and Mi5 more books like this by Martin McGartland add to wishlist This is the story of Martin McGartland who worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA. Captured by the Provos, he escaped and re-settled on the mainland, but later discovered that he had been deliberately sacrificed by MI5. During his years in hiding he was arrested and taken to court many times. Eventually the Crown ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
8	La Muerte y la Doncella more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist Dorfman's award-winning play is set in a fictional South American country that has recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head a commission that will investigate crimes of the old regime. His wife, who was tortured in a military detention center years before, has her own plans for vindication. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $14.29! \| SVS
9	The fever more books like this by Wallace Shawn add to wishlist This is a piece for one person from the author of "My Dinner with Andre" and "Aunt Dan and Lemon and other plays". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	First Circle more books like this by Thomas P Whitney (Translator), Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras more books like this by Jennifer Harbury add to wishlist "A book not only for those interested in Guatamala, but forthose who want to know what makes people give up everything and fight for justice-everywhere"-Margaret Randall.This 2nd edition has an update from the author.[latin america][history] biograp see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Volume I: General Considerations more books like this by Neil J Kritz (Editor), Nelson Mandela (Foreword by) add to wishlist A collection of excerpts of writing by experts on the politics of regime transition and how democratizing regimes deal with past human rights violations or legacies of violence. This is the first of three volumes. see all copies from $29.40! new only from $59.70!
13 view cover	Jia: A Novel of North Korea more books like this by Hyejin Kim add to wishlist The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile. Hyejin Kim's" Jia" follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, who has the grace of a dancer but the misfortune of coming from a politically suspect family. In the isolated mining ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.97! \| SVS
14 view cover	Terrorism and Democratic Stability more books like this by Jennifer S Holmes add to wishlist This study examines the effects of terrorism and state repression on democratic stability in Uruguay, Peru and Spain. It is a detailed empirical study set within an overall theoretical framework. In Uruguay in 1973 the military closed the national assembly and instituted over a decade of authoritarian rule. In spite of 70years of democracy, ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $27.68! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent more books like this by Ward Churchill, James Vander Wall, John Trudell (Foreword by) add to wishlist Readers anxious about the future of civil liberties under George W. Bush can trace the lineage of political repression meted out by the FBI since the 1950s. The original FBI memos reproduced here expose the Bureau's secret, systematic and often savage sabotage of progressive political activity. see all copies from $2.31! new only from $83.74! \| first editions
16 view cover	Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939 more books like this by William Chase, Mr. Vadim Staklo (Translator) add to wishlist This compelling work of documentary history tells a story of idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world, participated in, and was ultimately destroyed, by the Stalinist repression in the late 1930s. ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.40! \| first editions
17 view cover	Real Life in Castro's Cuba more books like this by Catherine Moses add to wishlist This new book provides a first-hand, grassroots look at life in Cuba, including very vivid descriptions of its people and places. Real Life in Castro's Cuba illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden in the shadow of Fidel Castro. Real Life in Castro's Cuba is written by Catherine Moses, who lived and worked ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights & the United Nations more books like this by Iain Guest add to wishlist "One of the best and most interesting treatments of the human rights movement, and of the dynamics of the United Nations human rights system, written to date."--Human Rights Quarterly Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda, see all copies from $30.96! new only from $30.96! \| SVS
19 view cover	Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin's Russia more books like this by Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov, * Translator, Ann E Healy (Translator) add to wishlist Bitter Waters is Gennady Andreev-Khomiakovs eyewitness account of life in the Soviet Union during the tumultuous 1930s, a time when titanic forces were shaping the course of Russian history. Forced collectivization, Five Year Plans, purges, and the phony achievements of shock worker brigades are only part of this story. Using this memoir of his ... see all copies from $2.21! new only from $22.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions more books like this by Priscilla B Hayner, Timothy Garton Ash (Preface by) add to wishlist Unspeakable Truths is a profound, definitive exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. After years of political turmoil, repression, and murder, then what? Truth commissions-official investigations into government crimes and misconduct are the only medicine a ... see all copies from $27.77! new only from $41.34! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination more books like this by Kristian Williams add to wishlist When the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke in April 2004, many American commentators expressed shock. But, as "The Progressive's" Anne-Marie Cusac observed, "Abu Ghraib shock[s] us because our soldiers abroad seem to have acted out behaviors that we condone, yet don't face up to, at home." On the heels of "Our Enemies in Blue", Kristian Williams' ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $10.78!
22 view cover	Fear at the Edge more books like this by Juan E Corradi (Editor), Patricia Weiss Fagen (Editor), Manuel Antonio Garretó N (Editor) add to wishlist Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $28.61! \| SVS
23 view cover	Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives more books like this by William Brennan add to wishlist Shockingly relevant today, this hard-hitting study shows how dehumanizing language was and is being used to justify violent acts against vulnerable peoples--past and present--including the unborn, the elderly, women, Jews, and victims of Soviet tyranny. Dr. Brennan's argument focuses on the plight of today's unwanted, before and after birth and in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.70! \| first editions
24	A Miracle, a Universe: Settlin more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist For the first time, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the courageous story of how against tremendous odds, torture victims and human rights activistsstice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States more books like this by Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall add to wishlist Readers anxious about the future of civil liberties under George W. Bush can trace the lineage of political repression meted out by the FBI since the 1950s. The original FBI memos reproduced here expose the Bureau's secret, systematic and often savage sabotage of progressive political activity. see all copies from $14.21! new only from $38.06!

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