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“Alone, mud-streaked, with weariness sinking into her very bones, a question haunted her—
Was this freedom?
The empty forest. Her fleeing, sick with dread. Was this what they had hoped for, all along?”
― River Sing Me Home
Was this freedom?
The empty forest. Her fleeing, sick with dread. Was this what they had hoped for, all along?”
― River Sing Me Home
“You cannot abolish bonds of kinship cemented in faith, religion, culture, tradition, and laws. But a nation? A nation can be destroyed.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
“The political apathy that KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastnyi feared was spreading across Soviet society in the 1960s was now treated as an asset by his successor, Vladimir Putin.”
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“What we’re seeing today is an emergency born less of poverty than prosperity. Families are not ‘falling’ into homelessness. They’re being pushed.”
― There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
― There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
“The notion that successful reform can emerge exclusively from within the ruling elite belongs among Russia’s most enduring and self-perpetuating myths, shared by figures as diverse as Gorbachev and Putin. Reforms initiated from outside the elite, so the argument goes, are doomed to failure, mass violence, or both. Never mind that such reforms have often been stymied by the elite itself, fearful of losing its monopoly of power, or that numerous reforms initiated from above have failed miserably.”
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Non Fiction Book Club
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This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here include Histories, Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, Science and Technolog ...more
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