Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An...
Extracting Profit
Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the...
Foibe rosse
Vita di Norma Cossetto uccisa in Istria nel '43
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Norma Cossetto venne gettata ancora viva nella foiba di Villa Surani (in località Antignana) nella notte tra il 4 e il 5 ottobre del 1943. A quell’epoca, aveva ventitré anni ed era iscritta al quarto anno del corso di laurea in lettere e filosofia, presso l’Università degli studi di Padova....
by Matt Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Marxism and History examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in a lively, jargon-free way, Matt Perry offers a concise introduction to: Marxist views of history; key Marxist historians and thinkers; and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work.
The Politics of Becoming European
A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European.
Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique,...
Intellectuals and Apparatchiks
Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
This book traces the origins and activities of an alliance of conservative Communist Party authorities and Russian nationalists during the late Soviet era. Specifically, it examines how and to what extent hitherto orthodox Communists sought political allies in the Russian nationalist movement in order...
The Righteous Outlaw
More Thirsty Than Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This book tells the compelling story of Brother J, who became a Christian in North Korea, where such faith is forbidden, in the spring of 1996 through Gods Providence. Brother J reminds our readers that God has not forgotten the people of North Korea; His light is shining even in that dark land. North...
Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected...
Trained to Kill
The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A “chilling” insider exposé from a CIA-backed leader of the anti-Castro movement in Havana, written with a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist (Mark Crispin Miller, author of Cruel and Unusual).
Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA’s decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel...
Biafra's War 1967-1970
A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death.
Biafra’s war was modern Africa’s first extended conflict. It lasted...
by Gianfranco Sanguinetti, John Barker, Charity Scribner
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This collection brings together a spread of writers, revolutionaries and reprobates to offer up a variety of critical perspectives on key European armed struggle groups from the 1970's . Gianfranco Sanguinetti, founding member of the Italian Section of the Situationist International, writes in 'On Terrorism...
Rendezvous with the Enemy
My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
In the 80's and 90's Northern Ireland was a bloody battleground that claimed...
The Ochrana
The Russian Secret Police
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1930, these are the memoirs of the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana, who was arrested by the revolutionaries, refused to be a Bolshevik spy, escaped to France, became a railway porter and died penniless.
The book tells of the part he played in Rasputin’s death...