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Viimsi: Aade Publishers, 2015. AX5 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the e… Mehr…

Viimsi: Aade Publishers, 2015. AX5 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, couple of long crease on the front flap, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners and dents, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9"x6.5", 239 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. When Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania fell into the trap set jointly by Hitler and Stalin on August 23, 1939, resulting in their occupation and incorporation by the Soviet Union a year later, the sequence of events did not escape world attention. U.S. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles issued a powerful statement on July 23, 1940 that the United States of America would never recognize the acts of military or political force that seek to end the existence of free and independent countries. This was the beginning of the continuing non-recognition policy regarding the occupation and annexation of the Baltic countries. However, at both Yalta and Potsdam the United States and Great Britain acceded in practice to Stalin's moves. Tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, who had fled from their homelands and found refuge in German dp camps, reached the USA under a special law starting in 1948. Baltic refugees never failed to emphasize that their homelands were illegally occupied and they demanded freedom. Among them, Leonard Valiukas, a Lithuanian refugee living in Southern California, understood that it was not enough to confirm a desire for freedom to each other. The Baltic question needed to be disseminated to America's political elite and mainstream media. Starting in 1961, Valiukas began to assemble a nationwide movement to influence the members of the U.S. Congress to adopt resolutions supporting freedom for the Baltic countries. An effective organization, Americans for Congressional Action to Free the Baltic States, was born. Its Estonian section chairman became Arne Kalm. With good diplomatic sense, he was able to generate the support of the east coast-based Estonian central organization, ERKÜ, while developing good cooperative relations with Latvians and Lithuanians. ACA operated for over a decade and prepared the ground for subsequent political breakthroughs during President Ronald Reagan's term. Men like Leonard Valiukas and Arne Kalm performed notable work. This book helps prevent the results of their work from being forgotten by history.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Aade Publishers, 2015, 3, Paperback / softback. New. Ralph Miliband is one of the major Marxist sociologists working today. His books, The State in Capitalist Society and Parliamentary Socialism, arc standard reference points in all debates on the nature of the state.<br /><br />Less widely known, and never before collected in one volume, are Miliband's contributions to the development of socialist politics. As an essayist, he deploys a wide political culture and clarity of argument with a sustained commitment to socialist values. The topics of the essays gathered here were sparked by the key occasions of socialist debate in the past twenty years. They include socialist democracy; the relation between class power and state power in the transition to socialism; the role of human agency in history, and the character of the Soviet Union. Kolakowski, Bahro, Medvedev and Bettelheim are among the figures whose contributions are soberly and constructively assessed. The lessons of the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile are drawn in a <i>tour de force</i> of controlled moral outrage and urgent analysis.<br /><br />All of Miliband's interventions in his famous debate with Nicos Poulantzas are brought together for the first time, along with his subsequent reflections on the questions it addressed. Finally, Miliband explores the special problems posed for socialists by the existence of powerful and inert labour parties in advanced capitalist countries, arguing powerfully for a recognition that contemporary conditions demand a rejection both of Leninist and of social-democratic strategies.<br /><br /><i>Class Power and State Power</i> is an impressive display of the depth and range of Ralph Miliband's writing of the past twenty years; it will confirm his status as one of the most important contemporary Marxist thinkers., 6, London: Harper & Brothers, 2005. Pp. 496(last blank), coloured and black & white text illustrations; cr. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; HarperCollins, London, 2005. First edition. *An extensive catalogue of all types of military equipment including weapons, vehicles, unmanned aircraft, communications, personal kit, etc., used by special forces units worldwide., Harper & Brothers, 2005, 0<