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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution andhow it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers fortyyears of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. Winner of the 2023 Cundhill History Prize.

Now in paperback, the first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth century.

Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this "engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century" (Village Voice) In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy,...

From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution's principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society--even if, after more than two hundred years, their...

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution-a heartrendingprecursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner . . . Helen Zia has proven once again that...