'anything but an eternal truth': representing left histories
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عنوان ژورنال: Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1913-9632,1192-1927
DOI: 10.25071/1913-9632.5196