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Revival Hindu Mysticism (1934) According to the Upanisads


Free Download Revival: Hindu Mysticism (1934): According to the Upanisads By Sircar, M N
2018 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1138552712 | PDF | 38 MB
Hindu Mysticism provides an engaging introduction to the various mystical traditions that evolved over the centuries in India, including the sacrificial (Vedic), Upanishadic, Yogic, Buddhist, Classical Bhakti (Devotional) and Popular Bhakti. Given its sweeping scope, the text also serves as a useful overview to Indian thought for newcomers to this ancient philosophical and spiritual tradition.

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Dimitrov and Stalin, 1934-1943 Letters from the Soviet Archives


Free Download Professor Alexander Dallin, Professor Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Vadim A. Staklo, "Dimitrov and Stalin, 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0300080212 | PDF | pages: 318 | 7.4 mb
This collection of over fifty top-secret letters are drawn from classified Soviet archives only recently opened to scholars. The letters offer unique insight into Soviet foreign policy and Stalin’s attitudes and intentions during the Great Terror of the 1930’s and the years leading up to the Second World War. They confirm the dependence of Comintern on the Kremlin and Stalin’s role in shaping it. They also shed light on the confusion about policies toward foreign Communist parties and the effect this had on the history of the twentieth century.

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Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA Reading the Archives against the Grain


Free Download Andrekos Varnava, "Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA: Reading the Archives against the Grain "
English | ISBN: 1785275526 | 2021 | 142 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. This event has been the infamous subject of rumours since its occurrence and a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, as the event has been silenced or dismissed. This book explores the assassination in its broadest possible context by situating it within the broader events within the British Empire, the region and the world more generally at that time. The basis for the exploration is a ‘community of records’ through which all the evidence is sifted, reading it both with and against the grain, in order to provide the most likely answer to who was really behind this mysterious cold case. Through rigorous analysis, this book concludes that those who most likely masterminded the assassination supported radical right-wing extremist pro-enosis nationalism and were subsequently also prominent in forming the EOKA terrorist group in the 1950s.

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