The story of the Communist Party of Australia has been told in various ways. Until now, however, archival collections that have borne on this story have been relatively inaccessible to the ordinary, interested reader. This book begins to redress that deficiency by bringing toget…
"This book brings together 85 documents from the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (RGASPI), selected and introduced by the editors from a collection of thousands of documents concerning the relations between the Communist International and the Communist Par…
Die Suche nach christlicher Identität in einer pluralen und sich ständig wandelnden Gesellschaft ist von bleibender Bedeutung. Der Weg dazu ist der Dialog mit der heutigen Welt in ihrer Vielfalt an Weltanschauungen und Kulturen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren geben wichtige Impulse …
"Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting ba…
This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amount of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties, to poems and philosophical treatises, it analyses how friends…
"Whence the origin and wherefore the destination of the European and thence global fascination with things Persian? In this book, the author reveals the landscape of a spectacular circulation of ideas between 'East' and 'West' that posits a global scene upon which Persian cultur…
Since the end of the Cold War, Chechnya has suffered two full-scale Russian military assaults. In this argument for Chechen self-determination, Tony Wood considers Russo-Chechen relations, as well as the fate of the region since the fall of the Soviet Union.
