Communism category: 1567 books

Cover of The Transformation of Italian Communism
by Leonard Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet empire have had major consequences for Italian politics. Leonard Weinberg explores some of those consequences, focusing on the transformation of the Italian Communist party from a Leninist to a democratic party. He also discusses the relationship...
Cover of The Poverty of Communism
by Nicholas Eberstadt
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

One third of the world's population today lives under governments that consider themselves to be Marxist-Leninist. In many of these places, severe poverty was endemic in the years before Communist authorities came to power. Communist governments claim to have a special understanding into and effectiveness...
Cover of Capitalism vs. Communism Gr. 5-8
by Darcy Frisina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

Discover the rise of Capitalism from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Our resource explores the differences between a Capitalistic, Communist and Globalization economy. Step into the Dust Bowl era and experience the hardships of the Great Depression. Explain how the New Deal helped the United...
Cover of Cuban Communism, 1959-2003
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

"Cuban Communism remains, like its previous ten editions, an important contribution to the field of Cuban Studies. It includes many useful chronological facts, as well as a selection of Fidel Castro's speeches which are interesting and informative for any reader interested in the island."...
Cover of The Naked Communist
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

This book is designed to bring the far-flung facts about Communism into a single volume. It contains a distillation of more than one hundred books and treatises—many of them written by Communist authors. It attempts to present the Communist in his true native elements, stripped of propaganda and...
Cover of Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism
by Nanci Adler, Johan Dietsch, John Paul Himka
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical...
Cover of The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti

by Paul C. Mocombe
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit...
Cover of Dedication and Leadership
by Douglas Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1994

On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife...
Cover of The Lost World of British Communism
by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood...
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The Red Flag

A History of Communism

by David Priestland
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

“The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account.” —Foreign Affairs In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two...
Cover of Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935
by John W. F. Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation...
Cover of Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

Repression during World Upheaval

by John W. F. Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime. Such governmental...
Cover of The Collapse of Communism
by Lee Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth century—why did Communism collapse so suddenly? These essays suggest that a wide range of forces—political, economic, strategic, religious, add the indispensable role of the principled statesman and the brave dissident—brought about the collapse of communism.
Cover of Essential Works of Lenin

Essential Works of Lenin

"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. In this volume, comprising the four works generally considered his most...
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