Product Description: Following the treatment of internal political and economic questions in the two preceding volumes, this volume covers the foreign relations of Soviet Russia for the same period.

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A great debate took place following the collapse of the socialist movement in the crisis of 1914. "Revolutionary defeatism" was the phrase used to define Lenin's antiwar position and to distinguish it, so it is claimed, from that of the other antiwar socialists including Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky. But what did "revolutionary defeatism" mean? It is generally with this question that discussion dissolves into vague generalities.Hal Draper demonstrates that the slogan coined by Lenin in 1914 was based on a myth that Marx and Engels would have supported a war against tsarist Russia, even one waged by a bourgeois government. Draper contrasts revolutionary defeatism with the "Third Camp" views of Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky, which, he suggests, offered a more defensible, lucid, and no less militant argument for the antiwar position.

The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations—France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain—lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from the ruins of the old order. Disaster loomed for the United States, too, as it struggled, in the face of crippling debt and inter-state rivalries, to forge the constitutional amendments that would become known as the Bill of Rights. Britain, a country humiliated by its defeat in America, recoiled from tales of imperial greed and the plunder of India as a king’s madness threw the British constitution into turmoil. Radical changes were in the air. A year of revolution was crowned in two documents drafted at almost the same time: the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights. These texts gave the world a new political language and promised to foreshadow new revolutions, even in Britain. But as the French Revolution spiraled into chaos and slavery experienced a rebirth in America, it seemed that the budding code of individual rights would forever be matched by equally powerful systems of repression and control. David Andress reveals how these events unfolded and how the men who led them, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, and George Washington, stood at the threshold of the modern world. Andress shows how the struggles of this explosive year—from the inauguration of George Washington to the birth of the cotton trade in the American South; from the British Empire’s war in India to the street battles of the French Revolution—would dominate the Old and New Worlds for the next two centuries.

Instead of a traditional social or political history, the authors analyse the dichotomy between the international dimension in the ideas of the revolution and the nationalization of memories in its commemorations over the past 150 years. (view table of contents)

Product Description: English summary: This Work gives an overview of the period between the French Revolution and the outbreak of the First World War. The main lines of European history are described: industrialisation, development within the states as well as foreign relations and the influence of European colonialism and imperialism on the rest of the world...read more

Product Description: • 'Vivid recollection of life in the post-war years of austerity … a remarkable picture of a recent but now-vanished society.’ BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR LOCAL HISTORY• ‘Fascinating reading.’ NEWBURY WEEKLY NEWS• Nostalgia for this post-war era is considerableA 1950s Childhood tells the autobiographical story of life for a boy growing up in England in the austerity period: food rationing, bomb damage, but also fun, laughs and larks in a picturesque seaside town...read more

"200 Jahre Franken in Bayern" - dieses Ereignis ist Thema der Landesausstellung 2006, die von April bis November im Museum Industriekultur in Nurnberg stattfindet. Ausstellung und Begleitbande vergegenwartigen facettenreich die grossen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen im Bayern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.

Product Description: A fascinating compendium of historical tales, organized by the days of the year. Read about the day Jesse Owens humiliated the Nazis at the Olympic Games, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart vanished in flight, Leonardo Da Vinci died in a king's arms, and many more.

Product Description: An expose of the American university. It considers all the working parts of the system and assesses their suitability to the professed purpose. The report on the actualities, myths and consequences of routines thus amounts to an anatomy of the institution that is not pretty.

Product Description: Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a mediaeval, knightly tournament...read more