Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia 9780312367305

The Voyage of the Beagle

In 1831, the twenty-two-year old Charles Darwin embarked on the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Beagle as it set off on what was

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The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy 9781501740831

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitation

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John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire 0754635589, 9780754635581, 9781315251479

In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomica

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The Russian Intelligentsia 9780231897150

Looks at the condition and prospects of a body of intellectuals known in Russia, pre-Revolutionary and Soviet, as the In

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On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere 9780300145076

Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues

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The Tale of My Exile

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Finding Private Uttley: A Soldier of the Great War 9781784626839

Finding Private Uttley examines the causes of the Great War and life on the Western Front. The guns of the Great War, th

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The Last Voyage of Columbus 9780759513785

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean

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The Private Life of the Romanoffs 9781528766746

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The Necessity of Exile 9798986780313, 9798986780337

A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. What is exile? What is dias

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