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A novel about adventures of an young artist who meets wrong people in wrong time. There are sex, drugs and rock'n'roll plus guns and travels and a lot of good sense of humor. For Polish readers only.
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The 'Nazi Menace' in Argentina 1931-1947
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One of the unanswered questions in the history of the 1930's and 1940's concerns just what the Nazis were up to in Argentina. Here was a country whose population was almost entirely European in origin and outlook, led by a conservative landed elite determined to retain power against the rising forces of socialism and "bolshevism." Here, too, was a substantial German-speaking minority numbering some quarter of a million. Could Argentina, then, have "gone Nazi"?
This is the first complete, thoroughly researched investigation into the myth and reality of Nazi Germany's influence and activities in Argentina. It covers Nazi attempts to penetrate and convert Argentina's German-speaking population, to proselytize the Argentine military and right-wing political groups, and to influence the governments of the period. It also penetrates the maze of forgeries, propaganda, and assorted "dirty tricks" propagated by both the Allies and the Axis, thus providing a factual account of clandestine activities during the war years, and the alleged movement of Nazi war criminals and treasure to Argentina at the war's end.
Among the author's major findings are that Germany in fact had no strategic designs on Argentina, but saw it as a market for export sales and a source of raw materials; that the response of German-Argentines and Argentines in general to Nazism was limited and dictated mostly by opportunism; and that both the British and Argentine governments took the measure of the German challenge calmly and rationally, and that it was the United States that became alarmed over the "Nazi menace."
Despite what the author demonstrates were the reckless and foolish activities of Nazi agents, the U.S. government and media were ignorant and gullible concerning Argentina. The British and antifascist exiles were consequently able to manipulate the United States skillfully through a series of hoaxes, several of which this book exposes. And though Argentina did provide sanctuary to ex-fascists after World War II, Germs were almost certainly outnumbered by Italians, Croats, and East Europeans.
The book is illustrated with some 20 photographs.
Ronald C. Newton is Professor of Latin American History at Simon Fraser University and the author of German Buenos Aires, 1900-1933: Social Change and Cultural Crisis.
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Title The "Nazi menace" in Argentina, 1931-1947
Author Ronald C. Newton
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804719292, 9780804719292
Length 520 pages
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The First Russian Revolution 1825
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The First Russian Revolution 1825
Anatole G. Mazour
A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less know, is the so-called decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December 1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russia intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations.
"Notwithstanding the importance o f the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject...The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces it background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of t he rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, then Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in Siberia." -- The Annals.
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The first Russian revolution, 1825: the Decembrist movement, its origins, development, and significance
Anatole Gregory Mazour
Stanford University Press, 1937
ISBN 0804700818, 9780804700818
324 pages
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Boris Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828-1866
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“The strengths of this work lie in the absolutely massive documentation that Hamburg brings forward, in the judiciousness and care with which he exploits his sources, and, above all, in the fact that for the first time he brings together the various episodes and controversies in which Chicherin was involved. He enables the reader to see Chicherin’s intellectual pattern as a whole and to understand the reasons why generations of educated Russians have taken his life and work as one of the central bearing points for modern Russian intellectual history.”
-S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin College
This is the first volume of a two-volume intellectual and political biography of Boris Chicherin (1828-1904), the most important liberal thinker in nineteenth-century Russia. The author analyzes Chicherin’s gradual emergence as a reformist during the reign of Nicholas I, his activities as a prominent spokesman for liberal reform, and his defense of conservative liberalism before his disillusionment in the mid-1860’s with both Russian government and society.
Chicherin’s early liberalism distinguished civil rights, such as freedom of conscience and of speech, from political rights, such as constitutional guarantees of suffrage and representative government. He contended that only a strong centralized state could simultaneously keep order and promulgate sweeping civil reforms, for when nations lacking democratic experience embark on extensive reforms, the absence of a powerful state apparatus may lead to uncontrolled revolutionary ferment.
The book is not a conventional biography of Chicherin, but a portrait of the cultural context in which he and other early Russian liberals operated. It deals with broad issues in Russian intellectual and political history: the development of liberalism out of the Westernism of the 1840’s; the differentiation of early Russian liberalism from Russian socialism; the connections between educated liberal society and the enlightened bureaucrats; the woman question, the Polish problem, and the abolition of serfdom; and finally liberalism’s prospects in reformed Russia.
The second volume will analyze Chicherin’s life and thought from 1867 to 1904, tracing his intellectual evolution from conservative liberal to “classical liberal.”
G.M. Hamburg is Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Notre Dame. He has translated several Russian books and is the author of Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881-1905.
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Boris Chicherin & early Russian liberalism, 1828-1866
By Gary M. Hamburg
Published by Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804720533, 9780804720533
443 pages
Contents
Chicherin Reform Politics 1
Chicherin , serfdom , zemstvo
Family and Childhood 17
Tambov , Chicherin , tax farmers
University Years 42
Slavophiles , Stroganov , Granovskii
The Historian 75
Hegel , Russian history , Kavelin
A Voice from Russia 107
Koshelev , boyars , Konstantin Kavelin
The Circle of A V Stankevich 147
Russkii vestnik , Varangians , Russian
The Grand Tour 176
Elena Pavlovna , Tolstoi , Orleanists
Crisis at Moscow University 216
Gorchakov , open university , Kostomarov
Conservative Liberalism 244
zemstvo , Poland , Stroganov
On Popular Representation 272
Montesquieu , representative government , Hippolyte Passy
Nemesis 311
Golovnin , Tolstoi , Leont'ev
The Legacy of Early Liberalism 331
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Notes 345
Russkii vestnik , Ibid , B. N. Chicherin
Bibliography 415
B. N. Chicherin , Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii , gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv
Index 433
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One soul's journey, looking inwards
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Angels and faces in the Dominican priory courtyard. Krakow, Poland.
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Angels and faces in the Dominican priory courtyard. Krakow, Poland.
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Angels and faces in the Dominican priory courtyard. Krakow, Poland.
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Angels and faces in the Dominican priory courtyard. Krakow, Poland.
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Trilobites from Poland.
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