Communism category: 1567 books
Lenin
The Practice and Theory of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2001
A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state. The book places Lenin in the context of his times and...
by Luigi Fabbri
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism was written in 1914 by Italian anarchist communist Luigi Fabbri (1877-1935), around the time the opening shots of WWI were being fired. In it he addresses problems he sees as resulting from the stereotyping of anarchism both in bourgeois literature and the media,...
Specters of Revolt
On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the spectre of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is haunted by revolt, by the possibility of events that interrupt and...
Secrets and Lies in Vietnam
Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became embroiled in jungle...
Enemy Brothers
Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This examination of the historical relationship between Socialist and Communist parties in France, Italy, and Spain since 1920 contends that during the 1960s and 1970s these parties made critical alliance decisions that shaped their subsequent political fortunes. Enemy Brothers, based on field work...
by Edward Kissi
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but...
The Fate of the Russian Revolution
Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vol.1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
This book opens with a quotation from Albert Einstein, stating the case for socialism. Einstein, like almost every great mind of the 20th century who concerned himself or herself with the welfare of the working people, wanted common ownership and a democratic planned economy. But Einstein was stumped...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states’ policies? How does citizenship of non-residents map onto domestic nation-building projects? And in what ways do extraterritorial citizenship issues differ from those related to diaspora and migration?
This volume...
by Mr Jayadeva Ranade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The book examines how since his appointment to China’s three top posts – simultaneously for the first time in 30 years – Xi Jinping has deftly used ideology and nationalism to accumulate power and ensure the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s legitimacy and monopoly on power. Xi Jinping has imposed...
In Letters of Blood and Fire
Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a new phase of capitalism that transcends its violent origins, this collection of essays by autonomist Marxist George Caffentzis argues that instead of being in a period...
by JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES.
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The book introduces the study of socialism as a phenomenon and socialist movements in America during the nineteenth century.
Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?
This book highlights some of the key...
by Mr Jayadeva Ranade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
There is a lot of information and data on the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China’s official media, but information concerning the cadres who govern the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and some key aspects of China’s policies on Tibet is very scanty. When available, the information is piecemeal...
Reconstructing Lenin
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial...