Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

The extraordinary true story of a West African girls upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only...

How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques used by the ear...

What are the factors of Lukashenka's longevity at the helm of power? This question is addressed in the context of Belarusian history and identity, ...

Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Bath party as his organ of me...

'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History R...

Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and MauritaniaThe past few years have been a period of unpr...

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendts historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged philosophy of history in her ...

[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum TelegraphEssential reading History...

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...

As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khm...

A revisionist account of interwar Europes largest Jewish community that upends histories of Jewish agency to rediscover reckonings with nationalism...

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitts most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Writt...

The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the countr...