Communism category: 1567 books
by Harold J. Laski
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This is Laski’s most important book after A Grammar of Politics. It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surveys American traditions and the American spirit, political institutions, the entire educational, religious, economic and social scene, America as a world...
Teaching Marx
The Socialist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
We are in the midst of yet another global crisis in capitalism. In the UK, we have the most right wing and ideologically driven government since Thatcher; a ruthless cabal of millionaires intent on destroying the welfare state. In the US, President Obama, whose initial record did not live up to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) ended World War II with some 20,000 members, and despite the harsh and vitriolic Cold War climate of the 1950s, seeded or provided impetus for the re-emergence of other...
The last Yugoslav generation
The rethinking of youth politics and cultures in late socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent collapse of the country in the 1990s, the book recovers...
From Stalin to Mao
Albania and the Socialist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism...
Captive University
The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian...
China's Brave New World
And Other Tales for Global Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing’s bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault’s philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible...
by Carl Tuckwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Just as there are numerous 'school's which interpret the Buddha, and churches which interpret Christ, so too there are various ‘Marxist’, ‘Leninist’, ‘Trotskyist’ and Maoist interpreters of Marx and Lenin.
Lenin’s works are freely available (on www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/cw and www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/Index),...
Stalin's World
Dictating the Soviet Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Drawing on declassified material from Stalin’s personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world—both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism...
Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power
Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the...
by Emilio de Ípola
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell—originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time—Emilio de Ípola contends that Althusser’s oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and at times contradictory projects. The first is the familiar Althusser, that...
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,...