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  A Kidnapped West - The Tragedy...

  Milan Kundera

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  “We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.”—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine 
  “Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe’s central ‘small nations’ like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their cultural identities were increasingly threatened.”—New York Book Review  
  A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kundera’s subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history.  It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia’s current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe. 
  Milan Kundera’s early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the “small nations” of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction. He is sounding the alarm, which chimes loud and clear in our own twenty-first century. 
  The 1983 essay translated by Edmund White (“The Tragedy of Central Europe”), and the 1967 lecture delivered to the Czech Writers’ Union in the middle of the Prague Spring by the young Milan Kundera (“Literature and the Small Nations”), translated for the first time by Linda Asher, are both written in a voice that is at once personal, vehement, and anguished. Here, Kundera appears already as one of our great European writers and truly our contemporary. Each piece is prefaced by a short presentation by French historian Pierre Nora and Czech-born French political scientist Jacques Rupnik.

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  Social and Political Change in...

  David S. G Goodman

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  This in-depth study examines the influence of the Chinese Communist Party’s effective organizing in Shanxi Province during the War of Resistance. Shanxi Province was on the frontlines of the 1937–1945 War of Resistance against Japan—the war that launched the Chinese Communist Party. During that time, the Taihang Base Area of Southwest Shanxi was one of the Party’s most important strongholds. David Goodman provides the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during those crucial years.   Goodman explores revolution as process, arguing that the Party was successful because of its management of revolutionary incrementalism. He examines the roles of various groups, highlighting the activities of urban intellectuals, teachers, and peasant small-holders as agents of change.   Based on newly available sources, including recently republished materials from the Taihang Base Area, restricted documentation from the Taiyuan Archive, and interviews with veterans of the Taihang Base Area this meticulously researched work deepens our understanding of the social and political origins of the Chinese revolution.

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  The Three Sources and Three...

  Vladimir Lenin

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  The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Russian:  Три источника и три составных части марксизма ) is an article written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and published in 1913. The article was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death.

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  Don't Just Pay Taxes - How...

  Divakar Vijayasarathy

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  Don’t Just Pay Taxes advocates a complete shift in our thinking of tax as a liability or burden.

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  The Crimes of England

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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  The Crimes of England by Gilbert Keith Chesterton is a provocative and sharply argued collection of essays in which Chesterton examines the moral, political, and cultural contradictions he perceives within modern English society.
  
  With his characteristic wit, paradox, and fearless reasoning, Chesterton challenges prevailing assumptions about progress, governance, and national identity. Rather than offering simple condemnation, he constructs layered arguments that question the foundations of contemporary social and political thinking, urging readers to reconsider what is often accepted as inevitable or unquestionable.
  
  Across these essays, Chesterton blends satire with serious reflection, addressing issues such as institutional responsibility, cultural change, and the ethical consequences of modern ideologies. His writing is both intellectually engaging and stylistically vivid, turning abstract debates into accessible and memorable commentary.
  
  The Crimes of England stands as a powerful example of Chesterton's social criticism, offering a distinctive perspective that combines moral philosophy with literary flair. It remains a compelling read for those interested in political thought, cultural analysis, and early twentieth-century intellectual debate.

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  Backroom Deals in Our Backyards...

  Miranda S. Spivack

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  Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or neglect close to home—from their governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, police, and prosecutors. In fact, deals shrouded in darkness are regularly made at the state and local levels, often the result of closed-door discussions between governments and industry without any scrutiny whatsoever from the public. Too often, residents are intentionally kept on the outside, struggling to get information about significant issues affecting their communities—from car crashes and dirty drinking water, to failing safety gear—until the backroom deals are done and it's too late to challenge them. 
   
   
   
  Backroom Deals in Our Backyards tells the story of five "accidental activists"—people from across the United States who started questioning why their local and state governments didn't protect them from issues facing their communities and why there was a frightening lack of transparency surrounding the way these issues were resolved. The secret deals, lies, and corruption they uncover shake their faith in government but move them to action. 
   
   
   
  For readers of Chain of Title and Superman's Not Coming, Spivack's revealing take on a hidden dimension of American politics will outrage and educate anyone who cares about the forces shaping their own communities.

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