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Thierry Wolton
In some 30-odd years, Russia has gone from Communism to an unrestrained free-market economy, and now incarnates an autocratic national-capitalism. Why? How? For whose profit did these brutally sudden mutations take place? Is there any logic to this tale that overwhelmed the largest country in the...
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Essay - politics
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Philippe Ségur
According to Nietzsche, “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters.”
The purpose of Philippe Ségur’s essay is to demonstrate why political power is a monster by going back to the roots of western political power, i.e. the Ancient Roman era, the period prior to and following the...
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Dick Howard
By going back to the origins of American political thought – from the War of Independence to the “1800 Revolution” – Dick Howard shows us that this thought is rooted in a unique history in which theory is constantly confronted with practice.
To do this, he takes a new look at the founding events...
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Essay - politics
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Jean-Yves Potel
During the summer of 1980, Poland was the stage for a series of major strikes leading to the birth of the union “Solidarnosc.” The author lived those events from the inside. “Strike Scenes in Poland” gives a lively, detailed account of what it was like. It describes the days of enthusiasm and...
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Essay - politics
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Maïrbeck Vatchagaev
The Russian colonisation of Chechnya, which began at the end of the 18th century, was most active in the 19th century. It is a story that is usually told from the Russian perspective. “The Eagle and the Wolf” is the first contemporary work on this subject written by a Chechen historian.
Maïrbek...
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