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INTRODUCTORY NOTE When we first pubhshed Trade Unions in Britain, long ago in 1980, we knew that the political and economic order in Britain was changing convulsively, and we did not expect that the trade union movement would escape important changes itself. But in the intervening years between...

Introduction Rîis' was the victim of Rossiia Georgii Gachev If this book were in Russian, the title would contain two distinct epithets: nisskii for the people and rossiiskii for the empire. The first derives from Riis\ the word customarily employed to denote the Kievan state and the Muscovite...

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS this book had its origins in a debate which took place between me and a large group of economists at the Brookings Institution in Washington in the spring of 1988, and which centered upon my newly published work The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. In the course...

PrefaceWhen the first edition of this book was published in 1977, Olivér Stallybrass and I wrote in the originál preface:The idea of a dictionary of modern thought springs from the recognition of two facts. The first is that all of us are ignorant of whole areas of modern thought. In an age of...