Trotsky
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Some moderate wearsome tanning but no foxingsmall name in ffep see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop swanage both volumes of trotsky's biography of stalin in paperback good condition
9 €
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road set of 3 books - the prophet armed, trotsky ; the prophet unarmed, trotsky ; the prophet outcast, trotsky covers slightly bumped and rubbed, small scuffs and sticker marks to inside front covers, very good condition for see oxfam website for delivery information read more
20 €
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A compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with diego rivera, frida kahlo and trotsky in the midst of the mexican revolutionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from pulitzer prize nominee and award winning author of homeland, the poisonwood bible and flight behaviour, the lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of mexico and the cold embrace of s america in the shadow of senator mccarthyborn in america and raised in mexico, harrison shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, salomea violent upheaval sends him back to america; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumptionwhen he starts work in the household of mexican artists diego rivera and frida kahlo - where the bolshevik leader, lev trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square hounded from country to country by stalin's agents, leon trotsky finally finds refuge in mexico as the guest of the artist diego rivera and his beautiful wife frida kahlothe passions and betrayals of trotsky's final years are unravelled, revealing a panorama of russian history during the first half of the twentieth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut the extraordinary years spent in frida's beloved family homeas personal and confiding as a whisper, "in the blue house" reverberates with the momentous words and voices of historythe blue house, prove also to be his last
(England)
3 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston ex library
25 €
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The text of a speech delivered by trotsky in after several high-profile trials in moscowsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome light marks and wear to edges of coveroxfam books & music nottingham publishedsmall stapled bookletwith an introduction and notes
6 €
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Volumes: - mc (moral calculus): annotated contents/the moral calculus/index/annexes/sources cited - volume i: meditations/introduction/definitions - volume ii: justifications - honor/class/authority/race and culture/creed - volume iii: justifications - war aims/homeland/ground/earth/animals/gender/traitors/revolution - volume iv: justifications - deterrence/punishment/loyalty/sadism/moral yellowness/inevitability evaluations - safeguards/the victim - volume v: studies in consequences - southeast asia/europe/africa - volume vi: studies in consequences - the muslim world/north america/south america/perception and irrationality the books do not have a slipcaserising up and rising down: some thoughts on violence, freedom and urgent means is a seven-volume essay on the subject of violencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe unabridged edition was only published in one limited run of copies other than that the books are in excellent condition throughoutthe seven-volume edition is divided between essays analysing the actions and motivations of historical figures (including napoleon, abraham lincoln, john brown, robespierre, cortés, trotsky, stalin, and gandhi) and pieces of journalism and reportage that act as contemporary "case studies" on the problem of violencemuch of it consists of vollmann's own reporting from places wracked by violence, among them cambodia, somalia, and iraqoxfam shop cotham hill william tanner vollmann (born ) is an american novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayistit is a wide-ranging study of the justifications for and consequences of violence representing over 20 years of work, rising up and rising down attempts to establish a moral calculus to consider the causes, effects, and ethics of violence there is a little sunning to the front cover of volumes ii, iii and iv
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270 €