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An Introduction to Contemporary History

Geoffrey Barraclough

History

Professor Barraclough isolates in this Pelican some of the main themes of contemporary history. His purpose is

historiography, modern, politics

The Aristos

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magu

aphorism, collection, essays, modern, philosophy, postmodern

Russia

Experiment with a People: from 1991 to the present

Robert Service

History

Since the fall of communism, Russia has witnessed a dramatic struggle between old and new, continuity and chang

glasnost, modern, perestroika, russia

The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

Modern History #4

Eric Hobsbawm

History

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973

marxist, modern, socialism