Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Negative Intelligence
The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Castro's Secrets
Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of...
James and Esther Cooper Jackson
Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor. In turn, they devoted their lives to the fight for equality, serving as career activists throughout the black freedom movement. Having grown up in...
by Paul D'Amato
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
“In [D’Amato’s] able hands, Marxist politics come alive and leap before us, pointing a way toward a better world. It’s a knockout.”—Dave Zirin, author of What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States
In this lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of...
The Tragedy of Liberation
A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine.
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution...
The Cultural Revolution
A People's History, 1962—1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging...
by Sidney Rittenberg, Amanda Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until...
A Failed Empire
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok...
Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'
A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By...
Fidel Castro
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
FIDEL CASTRO
August 13, 1926 November 26, 2016.
A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
--Fidel Castro
From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring....
Trade Unions in China
The Challenge of Labour Unrest
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that labour...
Stasi
The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved...
by 何清漣, 程曉農
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 1, 2017
何清漣，以《中國的陷阱》轟動全球的著名學者，
再次悲哀、無奈做出預測！
中共政權在10-20年不會崩潰，但，
中國社會卻將長期處於「潰而不崩」狀態。
這個過程是中共透支中國未來以維持自身存在的過程
也是中國日漸衰敗的過程，
當然更是中國不斷向外部（尤其是港台）擴散負面影響力的過程。
中國的潰敗，和中共的不崩，
這個二分法，是台灣政界、商界必須理解的重點。
而潰敗的中國和不崩的中共，所對台灣造成的影響是什麼，
更是無法迴避，不得不嚴肅面對。
這也是每一個台灣人都應該認真思考的一本重要著作，
即便你不想與對岸打交道，但它絕對要和你打交道。
○美國最有影響力的中國問題專家沈大偉（David...
Dragon in the Tropics
Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope...