Communism category: 1567 books
by Emma Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
ON THE night of December 21, 1919, together with two hundred and forty-eight other political prisoners, I was deported from America. Although it was generally known we were to be deported, few really believed that the United States would so completely deny her past as an asylum for political refugees,...
by Vladimir Lenin, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Vladimir Lenin•Over a dozen of Lenins work, like Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, The State and Revolution, The April Theses, and more!Capitalism has triumphed...
Behind The Urals
An American Worker In Russia’s City Of Steel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
John Scott left the University of Wisconsin for the Soviet Union in 1931. Appalled by the depression and attracted by what he had heard concerning the effort to create a “new society” in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a welder and went abroad to join the great crusade. Assigned to construction...
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism
Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who...
The New Cold War
Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim. Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR.
Since The New Cold War was first published in February...
by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In 1956, a U.S. lawyer-economist, Louis O. Kelso, created the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to enable the employees of a closely held newspaper chain to buy out its retiring owners. Two years later, Kelso and his co-author, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, explained the macro-economic theory...
We Called Each Other Comrade
Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Featuring a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography of all titles published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, this updated record chronicles the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United States history. These pioneers of the...
Hoods and Shirts
The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse public fears of insurrection...
Lenin's Tomb
The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
**One of the Best Books of the Year: *The New York Times ***
From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been misused and misunderstood, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Escape from Freedom.
In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin—someone bent on creating...
The Reluctant Combatant
Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility...
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
The Mind and Face of Bolshevism
An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1927, this is the English translation of German author René Fülöp-Miller’s account of non-political developments under the Bolshevist regime. It thoroughly examines cultural life in the Soviet Union and illustrates, through rich use of photographs throughout, how the mechanistic...
by José Carlos Mariátegui
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Jose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and...