"By analysing the periodicals produced in late Soviet Leningrad, The Culture of Samizdat makes use of oral and written testimonies to examine the role of Samizdat activists in late Soviet Russia. Crucially, as well as providing new insight into Samizdat texts, the book employs a…
This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin's Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to St…
An anthology of declassified Romanian and US government documents, many of them translated from English to Romanian, pertaining to the dissident activities of the Romanian mathematician and dissident Mihai Botez, prefaced by an extensive introductory essay about Botez's dissiden…
Kevin Herlihy based this book on papers originally presented at the fourth conference on Irish dissent held at Marsh's Library in Dublin, 1997. It is aimed at those interested in, or studying ecclesiastical history.
Kevin Herlihy based this book on papers originally presented at the fourth conference on Irish dissent held at Marsh's Library in Dublin, 1997. It is aimed at those interested in, or studying ecclesiastical history.
In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010…
The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the …
"Shines a spotlight on the political underbelly of the Olympic Games. Because the Olympics have become such a multifaceted behemoth, they ramble into the path of numerous extant activist battles while spurring new ones. After presenting a brief history of political activism that…
"Shines a spotlight on the political underbelly of the Olympic Games. Because the Olympics have become such a multifaceted behemoth, they ramble into the path of numerous extant activist battles while spurring new ones. After presenting a brief history of political activism that…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theory -- Abstruction -- Revolutionary Era -- Early Nation -- Vietnam Era -- Millennium Turn -- Post 9/11 part I -- Post 9/11 part II -- 2020 -- Conclusion. "Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy theorizes abstruction analysis as a method of criti…
"Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy theorizes abstruction analysis as a method of critical rhetorical inquiry and employs it in the evaluation of prominent government whistleblower discourses. Guitar reveals how whistleblowing, a quintessential tool of dissent within democracy, h…
"Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy theorizes abstruction analysis as a method of critical rhetorical inquiry and employs it in the evaluation of prominent government whistleblower discourses. Guitar reveals how whistleblowing, a quintessential tool of dissent within democracy, h…
"The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Center twin towers, the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent austerity, and latterly Brexit, the rise and fall (for now) of Donald T…
