Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Threatening Anthropology
McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.S. Cold War surveillance damaged the field of anthropology. David H. Price reveals how dozens of activist anthropologists were publicly and privately persecuted during the...
The Rise of the Global Left
The World Social Forum and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and...
by David Hirsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Today’s antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions,...
Development and Dystopia
Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
In a new amazing version, Jack London's epic tale of a fictional Socialist uprising in the US and the rest of the world is told through the eyes of Avis Everhard, a middle-class woman who marries a prominent Socialist leader. Set in a fictional time period, the book is a fascinating portrayal of the...
by Kiran Maitra
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Marxism in India deals with the evolution, growth, struggle for survival, and reasons for failure of this ideology in India. Kiran Maitra analyses the challenges that have beleaguered marxism in our country in the last eight decades - flawed advise from abroad, challenges from within the country, and...
by Neera Chandhoke
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public...
Postmodern Racial Dialectics
Philosophy Beyond the Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy.
Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.—to conceptions of Black utopianism—to...
China's Democratic Future
How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
The end of communist rule in China will be one of the most momentous events of the twenty-first century, sounding the death knell for the Marxist-Leninist experiment and changing the lives of a fifth of humanity. This book provides a likely blow-by-blow account of how the Chinese Communist Party will...
Globalizing Central Asia
Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In this global era, Central Asia must be understood in both geo-economic and geopolitical terms. The region's natural resources compel the attention of rivalrous great powers and ambitious internal factions. The local regimes are caught between the need for international collaborations to valorize...
Strategic Frames
Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each...
Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China
Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Economic liberalisation processes and the rapid development of the private sector are widely visible signs of over thirty years of reform policies in the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has managed to preserve the basic political institutions of the Leninist...
China's Diplomacy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's approach to diplomacy, through an extensive evaluation of the major practices and theories behind the Party's diplomacy, with its main achievements in its 90 years of diplomacy highlighted. It delves into the views held by the...
Peasants and Revolution in Rural China
Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.
Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal...