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Set in the very near future, the North Atlantic outpost is once again evacuated. For the military occupiers there were just too many problems at St Kilda. The Western Islands Trust, owners and managers of the iconic North Atlantic World Heritage Site employ a custodian family to resettle the village abandoned by its previous inhabitants back in 1930. The villagers left for a good reason - cultural change undermined their sustainable way of life as the natural world around them was trampled by the march of modernity. Older meanings were replaced by written scriptures, homes built to embrace...

This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.