Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to fundamentally transform th…
Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality, at great human cost.
"This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been su…
"This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been su…
"This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been su…
"In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over 9 days in October 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in Hollywood. The immediate blowback from the October hearings was profound and long-lived. O…
"In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over 9 days in October 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in Hollywood. The immediate blowback from the October hearings was profound and long-lived. O…
"The goal was to turn the Russian revolution into a world revolution, and the strategy was a masterful campaign led by a propaganda genius to align Western intellectuals with Stalin's Soviet Union. The man assigned to this task by the Politburo was Willi Munzenberg, a German com…
"The goal was to turn the Russian revolution into a world revolution, and the strategy was a masterful campaign led by a propaganda genius to align Western intellectuals with Stalin's Soviet Union. The man assigned to this task by the Politburo was Willi Munzenberg, a German com…
An illustrated survey of the propaganda graphics created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Heller explores the use of logos, the development of regime-specific typefaces, and even the slogans used to both rally…
An illustrated survey of the propaganda graphics created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Heller explores the use of logos, the development of regime-specific typefaces, and even the slogans used to both rally…
