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1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Basic Books
March 2014
On Sale: March 11, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 0465065678
EAN: 9780465065677
Kindle: B00C4GRUOM
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Non-Fiction
Few moments in history have seen as many seismic
transformations as 1979. That single year marked the
emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political
force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and
Britain that would radically alter the international
economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements
in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the
collapse of the Soviet Union. In Strange Rebels,
veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we
live in today and the problems that plague it began to take
shape in this pivotal year. Weaving the story of each of
these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative,
Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how
these upheavals marked a startling conservative challenge to
communist and socialist systems around the globe, giving
birth to our modern age in the process.
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