A leading authority on the Soviet Union examines the two revolutions of February and October 1917 which serve as a symbol to socialists and established communism in Russia.
This is the first monographic studio of the photography of the Mexican Revolution through the photographs taken between 1910 and 1930 particularly by Mexican photographers discovering a large number of professionals -not only Agustacutein V. Casasola- who covered the armed movem…
The Libyan Revolution and its aftermath
The Libyan Revolution and its aftermath
This work offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Wal…
"Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influen…