Communism category: 1567 books

The swastika first entered modern history in the uniforms of the German counterrevolutionary troops of 1918 to 1923—and because of the defeat in Germany, Russia fell into the isolation that gave Stalin his road to power. Here, Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germany, and reveals its lessons for the future struggles for a better world.

A collection of Samir Amin’s ten most influential essays of the 21st century Radical political economist Samir Amin left behind a cherished oeuvre of Marxist writings. Amin’s intellectual range—from economics to culture—was admirable, and his lessons remain essential. Monthly Review...

We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent ice age or the long and painful record of large-scale chattel slavery...

At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the...

In What’s Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left’s responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party...

Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically...

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". This is the twentieth book from the fertile pen of a writer equally entertaining and ingenious in the short story, the romance, the novel and the sociological...

8 Oeuvres de Paul Lafargue Socialiste français (1842-1911) Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 8 Oeuvres de Paul Lafargue éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes...

Citation : « Le bourgeois a pensé et pense encore que la femme doit rester à la maison et consacrer son activité à surveiller et diriger le ménage, à soigner le mari, à fabriquer et nourrir les enfants. Déjà, Xénophon, alors que la bourgeoisie naissait et prenait corps dans la société...

This book is volume two of a three-volume work, Christianity Under Stress, which focuses on the experiences of Christian churches in contemporary communist and socialist societies. In this volume a distinguished group of experts examines the changing relationship of the Catholic church to contemporary...

Auguste Blanqui est le grand représentant du socialisme révolutionnaire au XIXe siècle en France, le lien entre la Révolution, celle de Babeuf et de Buonarroti, et la Commune de Paris, vécue dans sa cellule de Clairvaux. Depuis sa première blessure lors des émeutes de la rue Saint-Denis en...

Crushing the Collective illuminates the very real dangers of the socialistic mind-set that is currently threatening Americans’ freedoms and the very existence of our great nation. Veteran author  Charles Sasser explores the various collectivization philosophies, processes, and movements that have...

This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import, whereas socialists often asserted that the Welsh were...

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