Communism category: 1567 books
The Essential Marcuse
Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their...
The Red Fog
A Memoir of Life in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
As a teenager during World War II, author Lilija "Lita" Zarina's idyllic life of perfumed soaps, shelves full of books, and carefree parties explodes into irretrievable pieces after a Soviet bomb strikes her family's property in Latvia. The Russian army demands the surrender of passports,...
Close But No Cigar
A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017
'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily Telegraph
For over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat...
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation...
Rebel Mother
My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.
Carol...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1
Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate...
Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj iek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work....
by Prashant Pushkar
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Politics and economics go hand in hand. The approach of a government towards implementing an economic agenda is based on the political ideology it follows.
The world has seen and experienced a number of such ideologies that has formed the basis of that nation’s economic policy. The rise of...
by Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few knew it at the time, but both men came close to dying.
Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that historians...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique....
AT THE CAFÉ
Conversations on Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In 1897, Errico Malatesta, on the run from the police, was a regular visitor to a cafe in Ancona, Italy. He had shaved his beard, but was still taking a risk, especially as it wasn't a known anarchist café; it had a variety of customers, including the local policeman. The conversations recorded here...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must...
The Total Art of Stalinism
Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’...
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Why? Why do some of the richest people in the world support communism and socialism? Why would they support what appears to be the pathway to their own destruction? Dr. Carroll Quigley of Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown Universities states that he has been associated with many of these dynastic...