Communism category: 1567 books
The Screen Is Red
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed...
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
THE POVERTY OF STATISM
Anarchism versus Marxism A debate with Nikolai Bukharin, Luigi Fabbri and Rudolf Rocker (Introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Anarchist response to Nikolai Bukharin’s ‘Anarchy and Scientific Communism’; a libertarian critique of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the organisation of production, etc., by two of Bukharin’s anarchist contemporaries. Includes Rocker’s essay ‘Marx and Anarchism’....
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe continues to mystify scholars and citizens alike. The recent flood of books on this topic (many of them excellent) poses special problems for librarians who will need to choose carefully not only as to...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
This new edition of the political classic comes with a foreword by historian Rupert Matthews and includes a number of other early works relating to 19th Century Communism.
The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei)...
Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience
Studies of Communism and Radicalism in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience offers a fresh look at Communism, both the bad and good, and also touches on anarchism, Christian theory, conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, and more, to argue for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and V.I. Lenin as democratic revolutionaries. It examines...
by Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal...
Communism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.
With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death...
Terrorism and Communism
A Reply to Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Trotsky and Slavoj iek defend revolutionary violence
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj...
Terrorism and Communism
A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation.
The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth...
An American Stand
Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator...
The Communist Experience in America
A Political and Social History
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the relative weakness of American radicalism have engaged historians, sociologists, and political scientists for decades. Influential concepts such as frontier...
The Specter of Communism
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death...