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Communism
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ISBN: 128235468X 0191570885 9786612354687 9780191570889 9780191579158 0191579157 9780199551545 0199551545 9780191777356 0191777358 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press

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The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the 20th century. This introduction examines the history behind the political, economic, and social structures of communism as an ideology.


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Red and black in Haiti : radicalism, conflict, and political change, 1934-1957
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ISBN: 1469605848 080789415X 0807832650 0807859370 9780807894156 9781469605845 9780807832653 9780807859377 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press,

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In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois ""Papa Doc"" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise.Smith emphasizes the key role that radical groups, particularly Marxists and black nationalists, played in shap


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The extended case method : four countries, four decades, four great transformations, and one theoretical tradition
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ISBN: 1282772538 9786612772535 0520943384 9780520259003 0520259009 9780520259010 0520259017 9780520943384 9781282772533 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century-the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 in the Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago's South Side, where he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on the stability of advanced capitalism. In the 1980's, this perspective was deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories. Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unexpectedly dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy. These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method for developing novel understandings of epochal change.


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Brezhnev's folly : the building of BAM and late Soviet socialism
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ISBN: 9780822943723 0822943727 0822961385 0822971216 9780822971214 9780822961383 Year: 2009 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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