Olgerts Eglitis
Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia (1993)
INTRODUCTION
On June 14,1987, when all of East-Central Europe was still frozen by totalitarianism, news about an unsanctioned anti-Soviet demonstration in Latvia's capital, Riga, spread in the Western media. After that date the country never came to rest: the spell of fear...
Gene Sharp
Making Abolition Of War A Realistic Goal (1980)
INTRODUCTION
The destructiveness of modem war is widely understood. Yet most governments, backed by their populations, amass the largest array of military weaponry and forces of which they are capable. Clearly, none of the past proposals and movements to abolish war and to bring in...
Walter H. Conser, Jr & Ronald M. McCarthy & David J. Toscano & Gene Sharp
Before Lexington - Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775 (2015)
PREFACE TO THE 1986 EDITION
The struggle for American independence has captured the attention of American historians since the beginning of our history as a nation. S...
Patricia Parkman
Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America, 1931-1961 (1990)
Introduction
One of the characteristic features of the Latin American political land- scape is a phenomenon best described as a civic strike: the collective suspension of normal activities by people of diverse social groups united by a common political objecti...
Gene Sharp
From Dictatorship to Democracy (2011)
The essential handbook used for the "Color Revolutions" around the world during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
PREFACE
One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships. This has been nurtured in part because of a belief that human...
