Revolutioner, opstand og oprør

Thomas Müntzer: radical millenarian preacher, revolutionary, iconoclast

The Industrial Revolution which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the eighteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth transformed British industry and society and made Great Britain the most powerful nation in the world.The Industrial Revolution didn't happen due to one, single factor but rather to a number of separate yet related developments which interacted to change the world profoundly and completely. Improvements in the production of iron allowed the construction of efficient, reliable steam engines. You will discover topics such asBirth of the revolutionBritish motors start rollingCogs of the revolutionDissemination of changeSparks of a new revolutionEffects of the transformationAnd much, much more!This resulted in a lot of health problems but people didn't care because they were given jobs. So when the machines were introduced, millions of lives changed. This book will tell you what those changes were and how they affected the citizens. Enjoy reading

Nattens rejsende er en historisk roman om fire generationer af kvinder, der oplever kærlighed, tab, krig og håb fra nazismens fremkomst til den cubanske revolution og til sidst Berlinmurens fald.Berlin, 1931: Da nazisterne overtager magten i Det Tyske Rige, må den unge Ally Keller føre en farlig og desperat plan ud i livet for at sende sin datter Lilith over Atlanten i sikkerhed for Hitlers dødbringende ideologi.Havana, 1958: Tredive år senere får Lilith datteren Nadine med den cubanske pilot, Martin, der har stærke bånd til Batista-regeringen, men da revolutionens flammer antændes, står mor og datter ved en afgørende skillevej.Berlin, 1988: Som voksen begynder Nadine endelig at undersøge de valg, hendes mor og mormor traf for at sikre deres børns overlevelse. Men det bliver op til datteren Luna at komme overens med et chokerende forræderi i familiens fortid.

The revolutionary world leader’s extraordinary life, published for the centenary of Lenin’s death

Lenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text

Over forty years Thomas Jefferson and William Short forged a deep and intense relationship that both characterized in paternal and filial terms. Heir through Hope examines this relationship and its impact on Jefferson's moral and political judgments--on revolutionary violence, the economics of slavery, the value of marriage--central to his wider thought.

"Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project eventually culminating in a study of Lenin's life and politics. The three works would have constituted, he hoped, "a triptych of some artistic unity." But it was not to be; by the time of his sudden death in 1967, Deutscher had only managed to complete the first chapter, this book, which covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to the execution of his brother, Alexander Ulyanov, a traumatic but formative event. Based on a lifetime of background research, including access to the closed section of Trotsky's archives, Lenin's Childhood gave, at the time of its posthumous publication, a novel interpretation of the earliest influences in Lenin's personality and thinking. Most of all, it offers a glimpse into a work unfinished, a work which would have striven save Lenin from fanatical anti-revolutionary condemnation, and, perhaps more importantly, from uncritical communist beatification"--

Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, and Poland-Lithuania are also discussed. The volume ends with the Haitian Revolution and its impact on neighboring countries, revealing how the revolution was comprised of several smaller revolutions, and how, once the independent black State of Haiti was established, an effort was made to fulfill the promises of freedom and equality.

Henry Dunant: Eine Erinnerung an Solferino - Die Geburtsstunde des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes | 2021er Neuauflage, mit Begleitwort und zahlreichen Fußnoten und Erklärungen |»Die Sonne des 25. Juni beleuchtete eines der schrecklichsten Schauspiele, das sich erdenken lässt. Das Schlachtfeld ist bedeckt von Leichen und Pferden ... an anderen Stellen liegen Unglückliche, die von Kugeln und Granaten getroffen zu Boden gestreckt sind, denen aber darüber hinaus noch die Räder der Geschütze, die über sie hinwegfuhren, Arme und Beine zermalmt hatten ... Dort liegt ein völlig entstellter Soldat, dessen Zunge aus dem zerschmetterten Kiefer hängt ... Einem anderen Unglücklichen ist durch einen Säbelhieb ein Teil des Gesichts fortgerissen worden ...« - Dies schrieb der Schweizer Henry Dunant, der auf einer Geschäftsreise während der Schlacht von Solferino* am 24. Juni 1859 in die Nähe des Kampffeldes geriet. Nach dem Gemetzel war er aufs Tiefste erschüttert von den Zuständen vor Ort: Tausende von Sterbenden und Schwerstverletzten auf freiem Feld; wenige, schlecht ausgebildete Sanitätssoldaten; auf tausend Verletzte kam ein Chirurg.Seine geschäftlichen Pläne stellte der Schweizer zurück und schrieb stattdessen dieses Buch, ein dramatischer Erlebnisbericht eines Außenstehenden, den das Leid, das Entsetzen und die Qualen, die er hautnah miterlebt hatte, erschütterte. Dunant ließ das Buch auf eigene Kosten drucken und schickte es an führende Persönlichkeiten in Politik und Militär in Europa, mit dem Appell, eine staatenübergreifende Institution zu schaffen, die an Kriegsschauplätzen überall auf der Welt als neutrale Partei auftritt und Verwundete beider Seiten versorgen kann. - Diese Idee war die Geburtsstunde des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes.[*Die Schlacht von Solferino gilt als eine der blutigsten auf europäischem Boden, bei der rund 300.000 Soldaten aufeinander trafen. Sie entschied den Sardinischen Krieg, auch Zweiter Italienischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg genannt, der 1859 zwischen Österreich einerseits, und anderseits Sardinien-Piemont, verbündet mit dem französischen Kaiserreich, ausgetragen wurde.]

Lenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement

A collection of letters, diaries and various writings depicting the Lenin beyond political commitments

'Phenomenal ... Offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism'-Angela Y. Davis'Embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practice-an abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice'-Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams'A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements and our classrooms'-Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders'An elegantly written masterpiece'-Barbara Ransby, author of Making All Black Lives Matter Become Ungovernable is a provocative new work of political thought setting out to reclaim "freedom", "justice", and "democracy", revolutionary ideas that are all too often warped in the interests of capital and the state. Revealing the mirage of mainstream democratic thought and the false promises of liberal political ideologies, H.L.T. Quan offers an alternative approach: an abolition feminism drawing on a kaleidoscope of refusal praxes, and on a deep engagement with the Black Radical Tradition and queer analytics.With each chapter anchored by episodes from the long history of resistance and rebellions against tyranny, Quan calls for us to take up a feminist ethic of living rooted in the principles of radical inclusion, mutuality and friendship as part of the larger toolkit for confronting fascism, white supremacy, and the neoliberal labor regime.H.L.T. Quan is a political theorist, award-winning filmmaker and Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy and editor of Cedric J. Robinson.

From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite--the communist revolutions of the 20th century. He shows how revolutions overturned dictators in Nicaragua and Iran and brought the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and examines the new wave of non-violent "e;color"e; revolutions-the Philippines' Yellow Revolution, Ukraine's Orange Revolution--and the Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 that rocked the Middle East. Goldstone also sheds light on the major theories of revolution, exploring the causes of revolutionary waves, the role of revolutionary leaders, the strategies and processes of revolutionary change, and the intersection between revolutions and shifting patterns of global power. Finally, the author examines the reasons for diverse revolutionary outcomes, from democracy to civil war and authoritarian rule, and the likely future of revolution in years to come. About the Series:Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.

" Il y a des auteurs qui prétendent que la philosophie a pris naissance chez les étrangers : Aristote, dans son Traité du Magicien, et Sotion, livre XXIII de la Succession des Philosophes, rapportent que les inventeurs de cette science ont été les mages chez les Perses, les Chaldéens chez les Babyloniens ou les Assyriens, les gymnosophistes chez les Indiens, et les druides, ou ceux qüon appelait semnothées, chez les Celtes et les Gaulois. Ils ajoutent qüOchus était de Phénicie, Zamolxis de Thrace, et Atlas de la Libye. D¿un autre côté, les Égyptiens avancent que Vulcain, qüils font fils de Nilus, traita le premier la philosophie, dont ils appelaient les maîtres du nom de prêtres et de prophètes : ils veulent que, depuis lui jusqüà Alexandre roi de Macédoine, il se soit écoulé quarante-huit mille huit cent soixante-trois ans, pendant lesquels il y eut trois cent soixante-treize éclipses de soleil et huit cent trente-deux de lune. Pareillement, pour ce qui est des mages, qüon fait commencer à Zoroastre Persan, Hermodore platonicien, dans son livre des Disciplines, compte cinq mille ans depuis eux jusqüà la ruine de Troie."

Flavius Josephus' "Geschichte des jüdischen Krieges" ist ein Meisterwerk der antiken Geschichtsschreibung. In diesem Buch beschreibt Josephus den jüdischen Aufstand gegen die römische Herrschaft, der im Jahr 66 n.Chr. begann und in einem blutigen Krieg endete.Josephus, der selbst am Aufstand teilgenommen hatte, gibt in seinem Werk einen detaillierten Einblick in die politischen und militärischen Ereignisse dieser Zeit. Er beschreibt die Ursachen des Aufstands, die Belagerung von Jerusalem und den Fall des Tempels im Jahr 70 n.Chr.Doch Josephus' Werk ist mehr als nur eine militärische Chronik. Es ist auch ein Zeugnis der jüdischen Kultur und Religion, das uns Einblicke in das Leben der Menschen zu dieser Zeit gibt. Josephus beschreibt die politischen und religiösen Konflikte, die den Aufstand ausgelöst haben, und erzählt von den Schicksalen der Menschen, die in diesem Krieg ihr Leben verloren haben."Die Geschichte des jüdischen Krieges" ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das uns die Geschichte des antiken Nahen Ostens auf eine einzigartige Weise näherbringt.

It's the eighteenth century, and Celine's in trouble. A man, somewhere, is telling stories of her affairs, sexuality, mad orgies and addictions. None of this is true, but rumours are spreading like a plague, and as her name becomes a symbol for everything naughty. In a world ruled by men, Celine and her friends join together in search of justice.

Illustré d'une carte, 15 portraits et 28 illustrations.Contenant que des ouvrages irréprochables pouvant être mis dans toutes les mains.Voir catalogue joint pour toutes nos publications sur Lulu.com____________ Il est vraiment très difficile de nos jours d'écrire sur le bolchevisme et en particulier d'écrire pour l'Europe Occidentale. Si l'auteur est un bolcheviste, il est immédiatement discrédité par ceux qui ne partagent pas ses idées¿; s'il est un adversaire du bolchevisme, il est accusé de partialité par ceux qui sympathisent avec les idées communistes¿; s'il n'est ni l'un ni l'autre, il risque de n'être accepté ni par les uns ni par les autres en raison de son indifférence et par conséquent de son incompétence en la matière. Je me considère donc moralement obligé de rendre compte de mes¿titres, afin que le lecteur puisse juger par lui¿même de la sûreté de mes informations. J'appartenais au parti bolcheviste pendant onze ans, ayant abandonné leurs rangs au mois de mars 1917, quand le bolchevisme se¿détacha entièrement de la social¿démocratie. Après avoir quitté le parti, je devins un des rédacteurs du journal de Gorki Novaya Gisn, jusqu'à ce qu'il fût supprimé par le gouvernement bolcheviste¿; en même temps je travaillais au bureau de propagande du Conseil des députés ouvriers et soldats de Pétrograd. Après la révolution du mois d'octobre¿1917, je fus obligé de donner ma démission et, comme journaliste, je traversais et retraversais maintes fois la Russie. Ce livre est le résultat de mes observations personnelles à l'armée, à la campagne, dans les villes, dans les administrations bolchevistes et au cours de mes¿conversations particulières avec mes anciens amis bolchevistes. J'y joins des témoignages officiels pris dans les journaux bolchevistes. (voir Appendice.)Table des matièresAu seuil du bolchevisme - Le septième cercle - Les morts vivants - Les hommes au gouvernail de l'état - Le pape noir du bolchevisme - Le soutien de la terreur - Le système des soviets¿ - L'administration bolcheviste - Comité central de ravitaillement - Conseil principal de l'organisation économique nationale - Comité supérieur pour procurer le combustible - Comité central de l'industrie textile - Comité central d'industrie métallurgique - Comité central de logement - Le bolchevisme et la classe ouvrière - Leur justice - À la campagne - Les nouveaux riches - Les paysans et les ouvriers - Une conversation - Appendice - Quelques leçons pratiques de politique.

May 19, 2000. Fiji's democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji.

This book explores the factors behind the 2006 coup in Fiji. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, soldiers and politicians.

The soldiers whom you will find within these pages went to fight for others and they displayed a kind of silent heroism. From the pens of these ordinary Australians comes a plain and honest view of the war as they saw and experienced it

Leon Trotsky's Writings on Britain span one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. The first decades of the 20th century were a time of crisis on all fronts for British capitalism. The country was rapidly sinking to a second-rate position among the world powers. Violent eruptions of class struggle shook capitalist rule to its very foundations. Amidst all this, the Marxists were striving to build a mass revolutionary party as the precondition of capitalism's overthrow.These writings were intended to assist the communists of the time to achieve their historic task. The same task is posed before us once more today. The thread of history is being re-tied, and Britain is once more moving towards revolutionary crises. This collection is indispensable for the Marxists who must rise to face this challenge.Trotsky has a profound affinity for his subject, which he brings to bear on a remarkable range of questions: from the history, psychology, philosophy and morality of the British ruling class; to Britain's revolutionary traditions going back to Chartism and the English Revolution; to the 1926 General Strike, and the questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics that the Marxists faced in the stormy decade of the 1930s.This book includes all three volumes in a single edition, and features a new introduction by Rob Sewell, author of Chartist Revolution and In the Cause of Labour: A History of British Trade Unionism.

The legacy of the French Revolution critiqued by the most important thinkers of the day.

Il est des livres qui changent le monde. La première publication du Capital de Karl Marx, en 1867, à Hambourg, n'a rencontré aucun succès immédiat, mais a eu, quelques années plus tard, un retentissement croissant dans la Russie des Tsars, allant jusqu'à son renversement quelques décennies après. L'idée phare de ce livre qui véhicule une pensée simple mais ardue, est que le capitalisme est un système instable, aliénant les êtres humains, générant des conflits entre nations, provoquant troubles et misères sur la base de «¿l¿expropriation de la force de travail des travailleurs¿» par les bourgeois, via le principe du salariat. Ce livre, qu'on l'aime ou qu'on le déteste, a profondément bouleversé l'ordre établi, et on en voit encore les conséquences aujourd'hui, en Russie mais aussi en Chine ou en Corée du Nord. Memoria Books présente une version illustrée du Capital, en deux tomes, offrant une double grille de lecture. Le texte original de Marx, d'une part, et parallèlement, 89 illustrations (dont 44 dans le tome 2), qui représentent, au fil de la lecture, les conséquences à travers le temps de ce texte. Dans ce tome 2, les illustrations représentent les conséquences que ce livre a eu sur le monde... jusqu'à aujourd'hui.Toutes les illustrations sont réalisées par Yoann Laurent-Rouault, maître diplômé des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, qui a aussi réalisé la préface et le dossier documentaire de ce tome 2.

Il est des livres qui changent le monde. La première publication du Capital de Karl Marx, en 1867, à Hambourg, n'a rencontré aucun succès immédiat, mais a eu, quelques années plus tard, un retentissement croissant dans la Russie des Tsars, allant jusqu'à son renversement quelques décennies après. L'idée phare de ce livre qui véhicule une pensée simple mais ardue, est que le capitalisme est un système instable, aliénant les êtres humains, générant des conflits entre nations, provoquant troubles et misères sur la base de «¿l¿expropriation de la force de travail des travailleurs¿» par les bourgeois, via le principe du salariat. Ce livre, qu'on l'aime ou qu'on le déteste, a profondément bouleversé l'ordre établi, et on en voit encore les conséquences aujourd'hui, en Russie mais aussi en Chine ou en Corée du Nord. Memoria Books présente une version illustrée du Capital, en deux tomes, offrant une double grille de lecture. Le texte original de Marx, d'une part, et parallèlement, 89 illustrations (dont 45 dans le tome 1), qui représentent, au fil de la lecture, les conséquences à travers le temps de ce texte. Les premières illustrations retracent le contexte de l'époque, puis petit à petit, apparaissent les conséquences que ce livre a eu sur le monde... Toutes les illustrations sont réalisées par Yoann Laurent-Rouault, maître diplômé des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, tandis que la préface du tome 1 est l'¿uvre de Jean-David Haddad, professeur agrégé de Sciences économies et sociales, auteur, éditeur, chroniqueur.

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes launched in the European metropoles of Spain and Portugal is explored, as are the connections between Spanish America and Brazil, as well as between Brazil and Portuguese Africa. It ends with an assessment of Brazil and how the survival of slavery is shown to have been essential to the new monarchy, although simultaneously, enslaved people began pressing their own demands, just like the indigenous population.

Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enlightenment truly caused revolutions, concluding that the reverse is more apt: revolutions helped create the Enlightenment as a body of thought. The volume continues with a regional and thematic assessment of the American Revolution, revealing how numerous groups in British America - including Black and indigenous people - pursued their own agendas and faced interests at odds with the principles of the revolution.

Carlos Martinez is an independent researcher and political activist from London, Britain. He is the co-founder of No Cold War and Friends of Socialist China, and the author of The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse (LeftWord Books, 2019). In No Great Wall: On the Continuities of the Chinese Revolution, Martinez concisely traces the history of the Chinese revolution from the formation of the Communist Party of China in 1919, to the current Xi Jinping era. Contrary to those who argue there was a betrayal of the revolution in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening Up, Martinez lucidly shows how the Chinese revolution has been a continuous process, adjusting its governance in accord to changes in national and geopolitical contexts. This collection also includes the essay "Will China Suffer the Same Fate as the Soviet Union?" which relates the development of the Chinese revolution to the Soviet, and "The CPC: The Most Successful Political Party in History," which reflects on the successes of the Chinese revolution following the 20th National Congress of the CPC.