Dictatorship : from the origin of the modern concept of sovereignty to proletarian class struggle / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

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Trotsky : a biography / by Service, Robert, 1947-

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The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists / by Ellis, Frank, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- Afterword -- Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941 -- Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942 -- Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.…”

Stalin : a biography / by Service, Robert, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The revolutionary -- Stalin as we have known him -- The family Dzhughashvili -- The schooling of a priest -- Poet and rebel -- Marxist militant -- The party and the Caucasus -- On the run -- At the centre of the party -- Koba and Bolshevism -- Osip of Siberia -- Return to Petrograd -- Leader for the party -- The year 1917 -- October -- People's Commissar -- To the front! -- The Polish corridor -- With Lenin -- Nation and revolution -- Testament -- The opportunities of struggle -- Joseph and Nadya -- Factionalist against factions -- Despot -- Ending the NEP -- Terror-economics -- Ascent to supremacy -- The death of Nadya -- Modernity's sorcerer -- Fears in victory -- Ruling the nations -- Mind of terror -- The great terrorist -- The cult of impersonality -- Brutal reprieve -- Warlord -- The world in sight -- Approaches to war -- The devils SUP -- Barbarossa -- Fighting on -- Sleeping on the divan -- To the death! …”

Civil-military relations in today's China : swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…/ Joseph Fewsmith -- The PLA in the new economy : plus Ca change, plus C'est la même chose / James Mulvenon -- The challenge of conscription in an era of social change / Sijin Cheng -- Demobilization and resettlement: the challenge of downsizing the People's Liberation Army / Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise -- People's war in the twenty-first century : the militia and the reserves / Dennis J. …”

Xinjiang and the expansion of Chinese Communist power : Kashgar in the early twentieth century / by Dillon, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Silk Road city in the land of mountain and desert -- Kashgar and the Chinese Republic, 1911-1949 -- Kashgar and the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Republic -- Illustrations from the Hook Collection -- The view from Chinibagh 1: Britain's Consulate-General in Kashgar and Xinjiang under Governor Jin Shuren -- The view from Chinibagh 2: the Consulate-General and the 1933-4 revolt in southern Xinjiang -- Communist activists in the Kashgar region during the 1930s and 1940s -- Border security and the battle against the British and smugglers: Hu Dong in Tashkurgan -- Tax and currency reform in Kashgar -- Illustrations from the Hook Collection -- Education and running a county: Li Yunyang in Kashgar and Maralbashi (Bachu) -- Educating girls and working with women: Wu Naijun in Kashgar and Maralbashi -- Kashgar newspaperman: Wang Mo and Xinjiang Daily -- Honest and public-spirited official: Xu Liang -- Political commissar on the frontier: Zhou Chunlin -- Abudukerimhan Mehsum -- Entry of the PLA into Kashgar and the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang -- Liberating Khotan: Bai Chushi in southern Xinjiang -- Colonising Kashgar in the name of the people.…”

Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961 / by Reynolds, Nicholas E.

The Holocaust : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…/ Mark Levene -- Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the "racial century": genocides of indigenous peoples and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses.…”