Delphine Slotten

Why did Jacob H. Schiff decide to financially sponsor the Russian Revolutions of 1917? (2010)

Abstract

In March 1917, it became “known” in the United States that the Jewish-American banker Jacob Henry Schiff had substantially funded Russia’s revolution and the overthrow of its tsarist régime. Schiff had allegedly done so t...

S. A. Ayer

Selected Speeches of Subhas Chandra Bose (1962,2013)

The "forgotten man" in The West of India's Independence movement, who fought for The Axis Powers against The Allies during World War Two, spending time in Germany with the National Socialist leadership and leading an Indian volunteer army against The British Empire and its allies...

Sisir K. Bose

The Indian Struggle by Subhas Chandra Bose (1935)

Chandra Bose's major political study of the movement for independence in which he himself was a leading participant. The book provides a lucid, analytical narrative of the freedom struggle from the gathering clouds of the Non-Co-operation and Khilafat movements to the unleashing...

Alvin Toffler

Future Shock (1970)

From the Introduction

This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt— or fail to adapt— to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet, for the most part, books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pag...

Alvin Toffler

War and Anti-War (1993)

From the Introduction

THIS BOOK is about wars and anti-wars to come. It is for whose face has been half ripped away by explosives, and for his mother staring with glazed eyes at what is left. It is for all the innocents of tomorrow who will both kill and die for reasons they do not understand. It is a b...