Communism category: 1567 books
by Solveig Torvik
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The United Nations says Norway is the world's best place to live. So what's it like to live there? Who are these people, and what are their civic and cultural values? An unblinking look at celebrated, and uncelebrated, aspects of this paradoxical socialist welfare state by a Norwegian-American journalist.
Rethinking Democracy
Socialist Register 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gaining...
by Major James G. Pangelinan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring Chinese Way Of War. While the art and science of war in China have evolved considerably throughout its history, the characteristics and philosophies...
West of Eden
Communes and Utopia in Northern California
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a large portion of the population had become disenchanted with the American way of life that they did not feel they belonged to. While some openly revolted in the streets, others took to turning away from the mainstream and headed toward a new world. Utopian visions,...
by David Walker, Daniel Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Marxism, one of the few philosophies that turned into an effective movement, not so long ago was the official ideology in one form or another of much of humanity. It was promulgated initially by the Soviet Union, then imposed on much of Central and Eastern Europe, later emerged in the People's Republic...
by Stephen Mann
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Stephen Mann was in the British Royal Navy for five years and ninety three days, which is five years and ninety two days longer than he had wanted to be.The day he joined the Navy he didn’t know it but he was to become a reluctant sailor. It was the day after he signed up that the penny dropped...
Remembering the Dragon Lady: The U-2 Spy Plane: Memoirs of the Men Who Made the Legend
Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
"How I Became a Socialist" is a 1903 essay by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American journalist, novelist, and social activist. He was amongst the first writers of fiction to receive international acclaim and earn a large fortune from their work....
The Candy Bombers
The Untold Story of the Berlin Aircraft and America's Finest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
**“What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Steve Jobs
The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together...
Moscow, December 25, 1991
The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse...
Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform
Socialism in Burlington
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist”—though some folks would prefer the term “social democrat”—was mayor of Burlington, Vermont,...
The Zad and NoTAV
Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state
At a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural and agricultural territory, in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable and controllable,...
by Joan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Even if the Americans have themselves had a record of sometimes “interfering” in elections in other countries, they have every right to be upset that Russia interfered in their presidential elections, as all the intelligence agencies have agreed happened. Interestingly, president Trump has chosen...