During the Argentine junta's war against subversives, a group of women forged the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and transformed Argentine politics forever. The author traces the history of the association from an informal group of housewives searching for their children to an internationally known organization demanding civil rights.
Examines state-sanctioned terrorism from an anthropological viewpoint in eight case studies from Argentina, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Northern Ireland, and Spain.
British novelist Martin Amis describes the harsh realities--including slave labor and famine--of the Soviet Union in the early and mid-twentieth century, and examines the beliefs of Communist apologists of the West, including his father and his own peers at Oxford.
Examines the repressive and sometimes brutal methods used by various government agencies in countries around the world to control their own citizens and spy on other nations.
Presents memoirs by ten survivors of prisons and work camps in such Communist countries as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, and China during the Cold War years, and includes background on the gulag genre of literature and introductions to each work.
A study of S-21, a secret facility in Phnom Penh where enemies of the Khmer Rouge regime were interrogated, tortured, imprisoned, and executed for alleged counterrevolutionary crimes.
Presents the diary Nina Lugovskaya wrote while living in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, where she records the thoughts, feelings, and emotions the Soviet government interpreted as subversive before she and her family were sent to a labor camp in Siberia.
Examines how it is part of the human condition to try and reconcile acts committed under former systems of thought with contemporary ideology, focusing on the attempts of the people and governments of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia to face their Communist pasts.
