wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781839762451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth columnists to Soviet spies and today's domestic extremists. Yet, working from official documents released to the National Archives,distinguished historian Caute discovers that suspicion also fell on those who merely exercised their civil liberties, posing no threat to national security. In reality, this 'other history' of the Security Service, was dictated not only by the consistent anti-Communist and...
In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who en...
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106,47 zł |
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic
ISBN: 9780300212327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of reprisal to both... Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years
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63,83 zł |
The Fellow Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism, Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN: 9780300038750 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This highly regarded book gives a lucid and balanced account of fellow travellers in Europe and America: those individuals who were not willing to become Communists but were attracted by the socialist systems of the Soviet Union, the Popular Democracies, and Communist China. This revised edition contains new chapters on the effects of the development of the Communist regimes in China, Cuba, and North Vietnam.
This highly regarded book gives a lucid and balanced account of fellow travellers in Europe and America: those individuals who were not willing to bec...
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371,13 zł |
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
ISBN: 9780199278831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 824 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war staged in the city of Berlin. Using sources in four languages, Caute explores the cultural Cold War as it rapidly penetrated theatre, film, classical music, popular music, ballet, painting and sculpture, as well as propaganda by exhibition. Artists such as Miller, Picasso,...
The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, ...
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327,31 zł |
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War
ISBN: 9781412862905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the god that failed pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include... David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and histo... |
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232,59 zł |
The Dancer Defects : The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
ISBN: 9780199249084 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war staged in the city of Berlin. Using sources in four languages, Caute explores the cultural Cold War as it rapidly penetrated theatre, film, classical music, popular music, ballet, painting and sculpture, as well as propaganda by exhibition. Artists such as Miller, Picasso,...
The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, ...
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346,47 zł |
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War
ISBN: 9781412811613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the god that failed pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include... David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and histo... |
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682,74 zł |