Communism category: 1567 books
by Terry M. Perlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Anarchism—literally, a society without government—is less a political philosophy than it is a temperament. Anarchists are defiant people who seek to organize for the purpose of destroying organization. For its adherents, anarchism means a grand struggle against evil, a plea for the "new,"...
New Labour's Old Roots
Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as...
Politactics
Political Conversations from Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Technology, politics and entertainment have merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, the third book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through this organized but disordered mess and create a framework which could enact change against political and...
Magical Marxism
Subversive Politics and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012* *BR**BR*Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. *BR**BR*Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a Marxism that moves beyond debates about...
The Management of Savagery
How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s...
A Protestant Church in Communist China
Moore Memorial Church Shanghai 1949–1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falungong, but one...
by Martina Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Democratic socialism is a branch of politics that is built on certain core values, the first of which is the development of a society that openly embraces equality and social justice through powerful action. But the pendulum’s swing between Utopia and the apocalypse has always been short, and every...
by Albert Talker
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Last Empire details how the United States has lost its edge as the leader of the free world. Pointing to such things as loss of political integrity, erosion of its peoples’ values, lack of education and increasing criminal activity, author Albert Talker warns that these evils threaten our nation’s...
Democratization and the European Union
Comparing Central and Eastern European Post-Communist Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
This book examines in depth the impact of the EU on aspects of the quality of democracy in eight selected post-communist countries. Considering both the political and legal aspects of the dynamics among institutions and focussing on inter-institutional accountability, the book analyses how constitutional...
From Eastern Bloc to European Union
Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia,...
We shall not be moved
How Liverpool's working class fought redundancies, closures and cuts in the age of Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroaching tide of right-wing politics and sweeping de-industrialisation....
Misunderstanding Russia
Russian Foreign Policy and the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Well argued and balanced, Leichtova provides an alternative and more constructive understanding of what drives Russian foreign policy. The book is based on the concepts of constructivism and orientalism in international relations to analyse the policies of the Russian Federation. This book highlights...
Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals)
The USSR confronts Global Interdependence
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security.
In order...
by Catherine Danks
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Politics Russia provides the most comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to all aspects of the political development of Russia in the post-communist era. Writing with the undergraduate student specifically in mind, Danks fluent style and masterly grasp of complex material will make...