Communism category: 1567 books
The Cold War at Home
The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the...
by Ari Ben-Tzvi
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Conservative former Communist Jew reveals the Liberal Jewish plan for America. Author Ari Ben-Tzvi attended Columbia University during the time that the protests of the early ‘60’s were getting started, and was soon radicalized. Not only did he participate in the student unrest, he joined the...
The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland
Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially...
Rethinking Revolution
Socialist Register 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as...
Learning from the West?
Policy Transfer and Programmatic Change in the Communist Successor Parties of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Learning from the West? brings insight into political life after the collapse of communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s.
For Communist parties and their successors (CSPs), the challenge was perhaps the greatest – to redefine themselves within new, ‘westernised’ political...
Postcommunism from Within
Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism...
Labour and working-class lives
Essays to celebrate the lie and work of Chris Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain...
A Korean Conflict
The Tensions between Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war - this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship'...
The Mao Tse-Tung Collection
Over 40 Texts Including 'Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' and 'On Guerrilla Warfare'
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Ultimate Collection of the Thoughts, Writings and Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
Mao Tse-Tung was the colossus of the Communist revolution in China, and founding father of the People's Republic of China. Mao Tse-Tung ruled China as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its...
Abolishing the Taboo
Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific...
Stalinism
Essays in Historical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social life. While its effect upon the Soviet...
by Robert Loh
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The experiences and attitudes of a man who lived under Chinese Communism, rising to a position of importance before his decision to flee to the West, whose story describes much of life and society under Maoism.
Robert Loh is the first educated Chinese to give a view from the inside of life...
North Korea Invades the South
Across the 38th Parallel, June 1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...