LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon pirani

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  • Voices against Putin’s war
    Simon Pirani
    This book comprises speeches in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested, tried and handed long jail sentences for doing so. There are also letters and interviews, a chapter on resistance in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and in Russia, and the reaction by the Kremlin’s repressive machine.Statements by Alexei Gorinov, Igor Pask...
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    23,97 €

  • Burning Up
    Simon Pirani
    Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming. In Burning ...
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    42,06 €

  • Change In Putin’s Russia
    Simon Pirani
    This is an investigation into the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. 'Profiling Putin's team, including his security services and pro-market economic 'reformers', Simon Pirani argues that the growth during the oil boom was one-sided. The gap between rich and poor widened. Now the boom i...
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    44,79 €

  • The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24
    Simon Pirani
    The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920-24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy - and specifically, on the turbulent relationship between the working class and the Commun...
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    87,86 €