Results for: books tagged ‘Communism’
Selected Plays: 1984-1987: Vaclav Havel
The plays in this volume, which complements Selected Plays 1963-1983, are Largo Desolato, Temptation and Redevelopment in versions by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders respectively. Their themes are ... More
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success: Joseph McBride
Frank Capra directed some of the most enduring films in the history of the cinema: It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and It's a Wonderful Life, to ... More
View with a Grain of Sand: Wislawa Szymborska
The Faber Book of Utopias: John Carey
Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, ... More
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire: Jose Prieto
J. is a smuggler living on the fringes between Eastern and Western Europe, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. He has taken a commission to illegally trap ... More
Love and Freedom: Rosemary Kavan
This is a brave book that deserves to better known. Rosemary Kavan, an Englishwoman who was married to a Czech, unforgettably portrays life in post-war Prague, from the early optimistic ... More
The Good Republic: William Palmer
The Good Republic is an unnamed Baltic state. Its geography is important, sandwiched, for a hellish part of the twentieth-century, between two totalitarian behemoths, Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. The ... More
Death of the Dark Hero: David Selbourne
The title is taken from an extraordinarily prophetic observation made by Heinrich Heine in 1842. 'Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is ... More
Stalin's Nemesis: Bertrand Patenaude
The story of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political murders: the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, and a brilliant writer ... More
The Crisis in Russia, 1920: Arthur Ransome
But for Swallows and Amazons, some of Arthur Ransome's earlier writings would be better known. The extraordinary success Ransome achieved as a children's writer, from the 1930's until his death ... More
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