Popular European Political Books
Find political books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (134)
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Reden An Den Kleinen Mann by Wilhelm Reich DE
UkraineDescription:
Listen, Little Man! (Reden An Den Kleinen Mann) is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted... continue
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Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina EN
RussiaDescription:
In 2012 Maria Alyokhina and other members of Pussy Riot performed a provocative 'Punk Prayer', taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime. They were charged with 'organized hooliganism'. That trial and Alyokhina's subsequent imprisonment became an international cause. For Alyokhina, her two-year sentence launched a struggle against the Russian prison system and an iron-willed refusal to be deprived of her humanity. This book gives voice to Alyokhina's insistence on the right to say no, whether to a prison guard or to the president.
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Russians Among Us by Gordon Corera EN
EnglandDescription:
The urgent story of Russia's espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present from a seasoned BBC journalist specializing in defense and intelligence issues. The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin's espionage campaign against the West, how it intensified in the last decade and how the warning signs were missed The Russian 'deep cover' spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to track and capture them The recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked inside the... continue
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Sameproblemet by Kathrine Nedrejord NO
NorwayDescription:
Fortelleren, Marie, inviterer oss med inn i sin sfære. Alle minnene og historiene strømmer på idet hun reiser fra Paris og til familien i Finnmark for å delta i mormorens begravelse. Her er røttene hennes, storfamilien, barndomsopplevelsene og alt hun har lagt bak seg i sitt nye liv med mann og barn i Frankrike, alt hun har unnveket i mange år. Men nå som hun bestemmer seg for å skrive mormorens – áhkkus – historie, slipper hun også sin egen historie til.
Marie oppdager hvordan undertrykkelse indirekte og mer direkte... continue
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Second-Hand of Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich EN
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s... continue
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PortugalDescription:
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration. By the Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev EN
Description:
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassinat... continue
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Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė EN
LithuaniaDescription:
In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she escapes the gulag and returns to Lithuania. She writes her memories on scraps of paper and buries them in the garden, fearing they might be discovered by the KGB. They are not found until 1991, four years after her death. This is the story Dalia buried. The immediacy of her writing bears witness not only to the suffering she endured but also the hope that sustained her. It ... continue
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Smash the Patriarchy by Marta Breen EN
Description:
The patriarchy is falling. It's time to smash it. This graphic novel shows you how. Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women--from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera--who stood up to them. The book is not afraid to examine some of the worst crimes--public shaming, medical examinations, and the widespread murder and j... continue
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Soldados de Perón : historia crítica sobre los Montoneros by Richard Gillespie ES
Description:
El profesor ingles Richard Gillespie nacido en Wigan Lancashire en 1952 residió en la Argentina desde junio de 1975 hasta octubre de 1976 mientras reunía material sobre la izquierda peronista con vistas a su doctorado que recibió en 1979. Fue Junior Research Fellow de Ciencias Políticas del St. John s College adscrito a la Universidad de Oxford y profesor de esta materia en la Universidad de Warwick.