Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nig ...
В книге рассматривается «вечная» тема: художник-творец и общество, трагедия взаимного непонимания и отчуждения – те способы и методы ведения борьбы, с помощью которых «общество большинства» делает все возможное, чтобы исследователь с даром нездешним остановился, придавленный обстоятельствами, и замолчал навсегда. Это именно вневременнaя родословная таланта, ибо мы имеем дело с «Пирамидой не-творчества» («26 ступенек вниз»), действующей с незапам ...
В книге рассматривается «вечная» тема: художник-творец и общество, трагедия взаимного непонимания и отчуждения – те способы и методы ведения борьбы, с помощью которых «общество большинства» делает все возможное, чтобы исследователь с даром нездешним остановился, придавленный обстоятельствами, и замолчал навсегда. Это именно вневременнaя родословная таланта, ибо мы имеем дело с «Пирамидой не-творчества» («26 ступенек вниз»), действующей с незапам ...
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The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events. The book is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. It debunks a number of myths and misunderstandings that have become rife. Nicholas Smaligo shows how the movement arose out of radical currents that have been active below the media's radar since the 1970s. Oc ...
The Tea Party showed its strength in the 2010 mid-terms. Despite the opposition of leading Republicans like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lindsey Graham, 140 Tea Party candidates ran for Congress. Of the sixty House seats which moved from Democratic to Republican control, twenty-eight were won by Tea Party candidates. At the movement’s height, 29 percent of Americans had “some ties” to the Tea Party, while 2 percent id ...
"Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election." — The Washington Post The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that powered Donald Tru ...
In Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Peter Glassgold brings to the page political activist and anarchist Emma Goldman’s most radical contribution, Mother Earth, a monthly journal about social science and literature. Glassgold has compiled Mother Earth’s most provocative articles, with thematic categories ranging from «The Woman Question» to «The Social War» and features a diverse selection of writers, ...
"The courage of a book, it has been said, is that it looks away from nothing. Here is a brave book." ? The Charlotte Observer «Berry says that these recent essays mostly say again what he has said before. His faithful readers may think he hasn't, however, said any of it better before.» ? Booklist (starred review) «His refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversi ...
