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Richard Stites

Stites explores the ideals behind the revolution, including drawing parallels between philosophies of imperial Russia's intelligentsia class and how the Bolsheviks molded their ideas during the revolution.

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Neven Andjelic

"The Bosnian war is often explained in terms of ancient hatred or the inability of post-communist society to go through a peaceful transition. Both arguments tend to omit the decade immediately prior to the war, which inevitably led to a bloody collapse of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author covers this period - which was characterized by strong communist rule, beginning in 1972 and ending in the 1980s - as a consequence of a series of political and economic scandals. It was the 'Agrokomerc Scandal' (uncovered in 1987) which brought down the political and economic elite of communist Bosnia. This changed the political scene completely, the economy deteriorated, and the society that had been suppressed during communist rule, emerged. New, inexperienced and weak leadership - under conditions of unprecedented economic crisis - led to the liberalized Bosnia of 1989. A wave of nationalism from Serbia, and later from Croatia, fell on fertile ground, although it was mainly resisted by the single-party system. However, it was democracy that finally allowed nationalism to gain a foothold in Bosnia."--Jacket.

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Sue L. Hamilton

A brief description of events leading up to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 precedes fictionalized eyewitness accounts of the attack and its aftermath.

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J. Revell Carr

A narrative history of the largely unexplored events-starting almost a century before-that inspired the colonists to launch the American Revolution. Repressive actions by the Crown against its colonies in the years following the French and Indian War may have been the direct causes, but historian Carr takes a longer view, and argues that "the cumulative effect of more than one hundred years of British disrespect, mismanagement, and exploitation prepared the minds of the colonists for revolution."--From publisher description.