5 Politics, Sociology English eBooks

Secrets of a German POW: The Revelations of Hauptmann Herbert Cleff
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
Fidel's Ethics of Violence
Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice

Secrets of a German POW: The Revelations of Hauptmann Herbert Cleff
Pen & Sword | 2014 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 1783032952 | ePub (e-book) | 9 MB
This is the extraordinary story of Hauptmann Herbert Cleff, who was captured in Egypt during the Allied advance from El Alamein in November 1942. He was thought to have had some administrative function in the Panzer corps, but not all was as it seemed.

Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
2015 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1479864072 | EPUB | 6 MB + 4 MB
In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and polarized legislative debates. Half of the terrorists declaring war on the West German state were women who understood their violent political actions to be part of their liberation from restrictive gender norms. As women participating in a brand of systematic violence usually associated with masculinity, they presented a cultural paradox, and their political decisions were viewed as gender transgressions by the state, the public, and even the burgeoning women's movement, which considered violence as patriarchal and unfeminist. Death in the Shape of a Young Girl questions this separation of political violence from feminist politics and offers a new understanding of left-wing female terrorists' actions as feminist practices that challenged existing gender ideologies. Patricia Melzer draws on archival sources, unpublished letters, and interviews with former activists to paint a fresh and interdisciplinary picture of West Germany's most notorious political group, from feminist responses to sexist media coverage of female terrorists to the gendered nature of their infamous hunger strikes while in prison. Placing the controversial actions of the Red Army Faction into the context of feminist politics, Death in the Shape of a Young Girl offers an innovative and engaging cultural history that foregrounds how gender shapes our perception of women's political choices and of any kind of political violence.

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
English | 15 May 2007 | ISBN: 9004158758 | 393 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
The 'Russian Question' was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in the twentieth century. Numerous attempts were made to understand the nature of Soviet society. The present book tries to portray the development of these theoretical contributions since 1917 in a coherent, comprehensive appraisal.

Fidel's Ethics of Violence
English | 20 Sept. 2007 | ISBN: 0745326978, 074532696X | 244 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Fidel Castro's most original contribution to revolutionary and radical thought has been his development of an explicit ethical position on one of the most controversial issues of our time: violence. This book explores the evolution of Castro's political thinking — and in particular how he philosophically reconciles violence, political power and morality.

Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice
English | Feb. 2007 | ISBN: 0844742503 | 162 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
For over one hundred years, the antitrust consent decree has been a major weapon in the federal enforcement of antitrust laws. In Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice, Richard A. Epstein undertakes the first systematic study of their use and effectiveness from both a historical and analytical perspective.