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  • Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy

    A Reassessment

    Series Book 39 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    Despite his significance, the role of Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky remains under-represented in Anglo-American Cold War scholarship. Serving as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and chancellor from 1970 to 1983, his political career oversaw seismic developments in both Austria’s postwar recovery and broader international relations with the Middle East, the Communist Bloc, and the United ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

    Series Book 171 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of dire poverty, disillusionment, radicalism, and nihilism interwoven with religious faith and utopianism. In Dostoevsky's ... Read more

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