I need to find out more about Structural Adjustment Programs, especially how they affected post-independence Nigerian political and economic stability. Finding unbiased sources seems difficult.

I'm looking into the factory committee movement during the Russian Revolution, and came across mention of a Practical Manual for the Implementation of Workers' Control of Industry supposedly published by the Central Soviet of Factory Committees of the Petrograd Area in December 1917.

Out of this upsurge of activity came the first attempt by the factory committee movement to form its own national organization, independent of the trade unions and political parties. In December the Central Soviet of Factory Committees of the Petrograd Area published a Practical Manual for the Implementation of Workers' Control of Industry. The manual proposed that "workers control could rapidly be extended into 'workers' management'." The manual also announced the intention of forming the factory committees into regional federations and a national federation.

I found this inside a review of For Workers' Power, a collection of writings by Maurice Brinton. I do not have a copy of that book, and so far delving through his publicly available works has been fruitless. If anyone could show me where to find this Practical Manual or perhaps confirm that it was destroyed, I would greatly appreciate it.

I've started doing research for a paper this week on the Avignon Papacy, the Western Schism, and the Council of Constance. Pretty interesting stuff.

I'm writing a paper on Samori Toure, need a book that gives indepth analysis of his life, the Mandika empire, its approach to French imperialism and the battle of Owe.

Thank you.

For my thesis I came across note by Fernand Braudel that English mine owners hired German silver miners for the latter to teach the former methods of deep mining. Unfortunately he did not cite this information, and I've had trouble finding anything else on the subject. Has anyone else heard of this?

Long list, but-

1. Anything relatively unbiased about the Indo-Pak wars?

2)General history/histories of Russia pre-1917

3)Books on the Italian city-states (from 1300s-1600s)

Thanks in advance!

Because I read this on Saturday, I'm going to say /u/400-Rabbits's post on the commonly reposted "TIL that Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire" over at /r/badhistory. Give it a read, it is fantastic.